This first book in Castells' groundbreaking trilogy, with a substantial new preface, highlights the economic and social dynamics of the information age and shows how the network …
With the advent of multinational corporations, the traditional urban service function has' gone global'. In order to provide services to globalizing corporate clients, the offices of major …
S Sassen - Análisis político, 2007 - scielo.org.co
El texto presenta en la introducción las bases para una sociología de la globalización en la que se afirma que dicho fenómeno es comprensible en términos no sólo de la …
Telecommunications and the City provides the first critical and state-of-the-art review of the relations between telecommunications and all aspects of city development and …
A Amin, S Graham - Transactions of the institute of British …, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
As debates on globalization have progressed from an earlier phase in which commentators saw the intensification of world‐scale flows and processes as the negation of local identities …
La rivoluzione della tecnologia dell'informazione e della comunicazione e la trasformazione sociale che l'accompagna è una cesura epocale nel modo di sviluppo delle società umane …
L Bertolini - Planning practice and research, 1999 - Taylor & Francis
The continuing decentralisation of cities is a widely documented phenomenon. According to many criteria, and particularly from the point of view of economic ef® ciency, it is one that …
This text challenges the belief that cities will eventually disappear as territorial forms of social organization as new information technologies permit the articulation of social …
Our inability to measure and compare the flows of information between global command centres is a major problem for research on the global urban hierarchy (Short and Kim 1999 …