Title: La ciudad informacional
First published: January 2001
Description: "The cities and the regions of the world are being transformed under the combined impact of a restructuring of the capitalist system and a technological revolution. This is the thesis of this book, now in paperback. Castells not only brings together an impressive array of evidence to support it but puts forward a new body of theory to explain it. He analyzes the interaction between information technology, economic restructuring and socio-spatial change through the empirical observation of contemporary national, urban and regional processes in the capitalist world, with emphasis on the United States. The author summarizes a very wide range of evidence of urban and regional development, and isolates the causes and consequences of the processes and trends that may be observed."--Publisher description.
Subjects: Information technology, Technology, Social aspects, High technology industries, Location, Space in economics, Economic aspects, Economic aspects of Information technology, High technology services industries, Information society, Social aspects of Information technology, Social aspects of Technology, Cities and towns, Effect of technological innovations on, City planning, Architecture, Housing rehabilitation, Urban Sociology, Cities and towns, growth, Technology, social aspects, Structural adjustment (economic policy), Swedish Architecture