A Tale of Two Global Cities
Subtitle: Comparing the Territorialities of Telecommunications Developments in Paris and London
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: February 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780754634744
Subjects: Human geography; Information technology industries; Postal & telecommunications industries; London; England; Business & Economics; Technology & Industrial Arts; Telecommunications; Business/Economics; London, Greater London; Paris; Development - Business Development; France; Infrastructure (Economics); Telecommunication
First sentence: In the last ten or fifteen years, there has been increasing interest in such disciplines as geography, planning, sociology, and urban studies in the relationships between cities and information technologies (IT) and telecommunications (see Dutton, Blumler and Kraemer, 1987; Moss, 1987; Castells, 1989; Batty, 1990; Hepworth, 1990; Brotchie et al, 1991; Gillespie, 1992; Bakis, Abler and Roche, 1993; Graham, 1994; Ascher, 1995; Mitchell, 1995; Musso and Rallet, 1995; Castells, 1996; Graham and Marvin, 1996; Wheeler, Aoyama and Warf, 2000).