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Connecting cities : Networks

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Titre

Connecting cities : Networks

Sujet

, mondialisation, réseaux, infrastructures, ville mondiale, world city, global city

Description

Extract from the introduction by Chris Johnson :
 
Until recently cities were seen as places. Think of New York skyscrapers, the streets of Paris, the canals of Venice or Sydney Harbour.
 
Over the last 20 years or so a new reading of cities has emerged and that is their role as connectors of global capital or as satellites for global networks of advanced service providers. The new reading of the relevance of individual cities is based on how global they are as opposed to how local they are. This reading comes partly from the writings of Manuel Castells on the City of Flows and the pioneering research of Saskia Sassen on Global Cities (she framed the concept). But the role of cities as being networks of economic activity also comes from the rise of service providers in the areas of law, accounting, insurance, management, finance and design that are located everywhere. Well - perhaps not everwhere - but certainly where they see individual cities as being globally significant.
 
This book explores this new dimension of global networks, of connected cities, of the role of the internet in linking businesses across the globe, or the rise of aircraft connectivity to world cities.   Contents :   Chris Johnson - Introduction Saskia Sassen - Cities in today's global age Peter Taylor - World city network Ben Derudder and Frank Witlox - Physical connection : Airline networks and cities Jonathan Rutherford - Virtual connection : Information networks and cities Michael Hoyler and Heike Jöns - Global knowledge networks Davina Jackson - D_City : Networking the data modelling revolution  

Créateur

Multiple authors

Éditeur

Metropolis Congress

Date

2008

Format


148

Type

Autre

Identifiant

http://www.metropolis.org/publications/connecting-cities-networks-research-publication-metropolis-congress