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Life in the Real-Time City: Mobile Telephones and Urban Metabolism

Life in the Real-Time City: Mobile Telephones and Urban Metabolism Life in the Real-Time City: Mobile Telephones and Urban Metabolism Anthony M. Townsend HE introduction of inexpensive, mass-produced mobile communications has not been as widely heralded nor as closely studied as the advent and explosive expansion of the World Wide Web. Yet the cellular telephone, merely the first wave of an imminent invasion of portable digital communications tools, will, as surely as the development of the Internet, lead to f undamenta l transf ormations in individuals’ perceptions of self and the world, and consequently the way those individuals collectively construct that world. Because of this, mobile communications devices will have a prof ound eff ect on cities as urbanites weave them into their daily routines. In addition to the neglect by scholars of the social uses of wireless communications systems, urban planners and architects have also neglected the social eff ects of these technologies, f ocusing instead on cosmetic issues such as the design and placement of the increasing number of antenna towers needed to support the growth in the use of networks. This neglect is not universal. At least one researcher, Timo Kopomaa, has written that in Scandinavian coun- tries (where mobile communications have penetrated more deeply into http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Urban Technology Taylor & Francis

Life in the Real-Time City: Mobile Telephones and Urban Metabolism

Journal of Urban Technology , Volume 7 (2): 20 – Aug 1, 2000
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1466-1853
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1063-0732
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10.1080/713684114
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Abstract

Life in the Real-Time City: Mobile Telephones and Urban Metabolism Anthony M. Townsend HE introduction of inexpensive, mass-produced mobile communications has not been as widely heralded nor as closely studied as the advent and explosive expansion of the World Wide Web. Yet the cellular telephone, merely the first wave of an imminent invasion of portable digital communications tools, will, as surely as the development of the Internet, lead to f undamenta l transf ormations in individuals’ perceptions of self and the world, and consequently the way those individuals collectively construct that world. Because of this, mobile communications devices will have a prof ound eff ect on cities as urbanites weave them into their daily routines. In addition to the neglect by scholars of the social uses of wireless communications systems, urban planners and architects have also neglected the social eff ects of these technologies, f ocusing instead on cosmetic issues such as the design and placement of the increasing number of antenna towers needed to support the growth in the use of networks. This neglect is not universal. At least one researcher, Timo Kopomaa, has written that in Scandinavian coun- tries (where mobile communications have penetrated more deeply into

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Journal of Urban TechnologyTaylor & Francis

Published: Aug 1, 2000

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