The Informational city : information technology, economic restructuring, and the urban-regional process / Manuel Castells

By:

Castells, Manuel

Publication details: Oxford [etc.] : Blackwell, 1991Edition: 1st edDescription: viii, 402 pISBN:

0631179372

Summary: The cities and regions of the world are being transformed under the combined impact of a restructuring of the capitalist system and a technological revolution. The nature of space, place and distance has changed fundamentally. This is the thesis of this book: Manuel Castells not only brings together an impressive array of evidence to support it but puts forward a new body of theory to explain it. 'The Informational City is a major achievement, a real tour-de-force. Although many other social scientists have been groping their way towards an understanding of the new economy and society, Castells has leap-frogged them all to produce the definitive analysis that will surely stand for years to come. It is as distinctive an achievement in its own way as were the works of Galbraith, Bell and other major theorists of a generation ago, and it invites comparison with the great sociological analyses of industrialism.' (Font: Editor)

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Centre d' Informació i Documentació del CERC Sala	General	S 00126	1	Available		1900139036

Reimpressions: 1992

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The informational mode of development and the restructuring of capitalism -- 2. The new industrial space: the locational pattern of information-technology manufacturing and its effects on spatial dynamics -- 3. The space of flows: the use of new technologies in the information economy, and the dialectics between centralization and decentralization of services -- 4. Information technology, the restructuring of capital-labor relationships, and the rise of the dual city -- 5. High technology and the transition from the urban welfare state to the suburban warfare state -- 6. The internationalization of the economy, new technologies, and the variable geometry of the spatial structure -- Conclusion: The reconstruction of social meaning in the space of flows -- Notes -- Index

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