Information Technology and Urban Processes

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Information Technology and Urban Processes
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Outline

• Information Technology and IT Applications
• Specific Urban Processes
• Conclusions
• Quiz review

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Information Technology Applications

• Ubiquitous
• Urban Economies
• Social and Cultural Life
• Urban environments
• Infrastructure and Transportation
• Physical Form
• Planning, Policy and Governance

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IT Urban Economies

• Globalization
• Advanced producer services and knowledge-based
  industries critical
• Dynamic interaction between Space of Flows and
  Space of Places
• Cities as nodes in communication networks
• Metropolitan dominance of direction and control
• Some decentralization of implementation
• Switched on vs. Switched-off, or the move
  from structural exploitation to structural
  marginalization

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IT Social and Cultural Life

• Global post-modern culture?
• Cities designed, packaged and marketed for global
  consumption by tourists, business, media firms
  and consumers
• Blurring of reality of city and imageculture of
  real virtuality
• The net and selfintegration and/or
  fragmentation/isolation?
• The rise of fundamentalism

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Urban Environments

• Dematerialization of cities?
• Energy efficiency of telecommunications
• Complementarity between physical and electronic
  interactions
• New technologies
• Can increase demand for physical processes
• Production, use and disposal of
  telecommunications
• Overall impacts still unclear

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IT Infrastructure and Transportation

• Applications in transportation, gas, electricity,
  water, telecommunications, etc.
• Movement is centralpeople, resources, electronic
  impulses
• Conversion in telematics and service delivery
• Transportation has tremendous potential
  applications

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IT Physical Form

• Typology of potential interactions between urban
  places and electronic spaces include synergies,
  substitution, generation and enhancement effects
• Dissolution of cities vs. urban renaissance?
• Urban fragmentation and defensive communities

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Planning, Policy and Governance

• Managing IT-related changes, and using IT-in
  planning/governing activities
• GIS and urban planning strong
• Attention to digital divide and access increasing
• Influence over IT-related changes still
  minimalmarket driven

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IT Urban Future

• A new type of urban world, not a post-urban world
• Current trends towards splintering urbanism and
  heightened social conflict likely to continue
  unless significant social movements emerge to
  challenge them
• Take Geog 497IT in Fall 2002 to learn more ?

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