Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Aveiro, Portugal: Making a Digital City

Aveiro, Portugal: Making a Digital City Aveiro, Portugal: Making a Digital City 49 Aveiro, Portugal: Making a Digital City Fla ´vio Nunes N recent years, attention has been increasingly drawn to the investigation of how the economic, social, and cultural Iaspects of cities interact with the proliferation of advanced computer-based telecommunications networks. Therefore, the co-evolution of cities and tele-mediated interactions is progres- sively emphasized in academic debates concerning the future of cities. As a result, the digital city concept has been defined as a means of creatively integrating telecommunications into urban policy and planning practices and strategies, in order to develop In other words, digital cities can more inclusive and sustainable urban futures . be considered as “community- One of the first contributions to this debate was made in 1994 based networks,” or networked communities, pursuing strategic when William Mitchell published the City of Bits. In this book, he visions that involve the use of suggested an exploratory vision by which the remote interactions, information and communication technologies in new and provided by the diffusion of information and communication tech- innovative ways to empower their nologies (ICTs) in contemporary societies, would gradually trans- residents, enterprises, and institutions. form urban form and function in such a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Urban Technology Taylor & Francis

Aveiro, Portugal: Making a Digital City

Nunes, Flávio
Journal of Urban Technology , Volume 12 (1): 22 – Apr 1, 2005
Download PDF
22 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/taylor-francis/aveiro-portugal-making-a-digital-city-nqacyPxfRb

References (22)

Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Copyright
Copyright The Society of Urban Technology
ISSN
1466-1853
eISSN
1063-0732
DOI
10.1080/10630730500116594
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

Aveiro, Portugal: Making a Digital City 49 Aveiro, Portugal: Making a Digital City Fla ´vio Nunes N recent years, attention has been increasingly drawn to the investigation of how the economic, social, and cultural Iaspects of cities interact with the proliferation of advanced computer-based telecommunications networks. Therefore, the co-evolution of cities and tele-mediated interactions is progres- sively emphasized in academic debates concerning the future of cities. As a result, the digital city concept has been defined as a means of creatively integrating telecommunications into urban policy and planning practices and strategies, in order to develop In other words, digital cities can more inclusive and sustainable urban futures . be considered as “community- One of the first contributions to this debate was made in 1994 based networks,” or networked communities, pursuing strategic when William Mitchell published the City of Bits. In this book, he visions that involve the use of suggested an exploratory vision by which the remote interactions, information and communication technologies in new and provided by the diffusion of information and communication tech- innovative ways to empower their nologies (ICTs) in contemporary societies, would gradually trans- residents, enterprises, and institutions. form urban form and function in such a

Journal

Journal of Urban Technology – Taylor & Francis

Published: Apr 1, 2005

There are no references for this article.