Telecommunications and the City

Stephen Graham and Simon Marvin are both Lecturers at the Centre for Urban Technology, Department of Town and Country Planning, University of Newcastle.

• 1 INTRODUCTION Telecommunications and the city: parallel transformations; Telecommunications and urban transformations; The urban ‘impacts’ of telecommunications; The neglect of telecommunications in urban studies; The need for more sophisticated approaches to city—telecommunications relations; The transformation of telecommunications: from the ‘Plain Old Telephone Service’ (POTS) to telematics; The transformation of cities: towards planetary urban networks 2 TELECOMMUNICATIONS AS A PARADIGM CHALLENGE FOR URBAN STUDIES AND POLICY 3 APPROACHING TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND THE CITY 4 URBAN ECONOMIES 5 THE SOCIAL AND CULTURAL LIFE OF THE CITY 6 URBAN ENVIRONMENTS 7 URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE AND TRANSPORTATION 8 URBAN PHYSICAL FORM 9 URBAN PLANNING, POLICY AND GOVERNANCE 10 CONCLUSIONS

'This excellent book provides a much needed focus by overviewing and integrating conceptual and empirical insights from technology, geography and urban studies...THe high quality of the text, the standard of referencing and the variety of illustrations combine as an exemplar of synthesis and exposition for an undergraduate audience. As such it merits inclusion on the reading list for all students in the social sciences. - Progress in Human Geography'Telecommunications and the City is an important contribution to the field of urban studies and planning...excellent value as a textbook and reference for teachers and students of urban studies and planning, sociology, communications and related areas of study and for those attempting to decipher the political and social dimensions of 'information age' technology.' - Urban Studies, Vol 34, No.7, 97