INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES AND RECONFIGURATIONS OF URBAN SPACE

GRAHAM, STEPHEN

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF URBAN AND REGIONAL RESEARCH, n.º 2/2001, pág. 405

1. Introduction: last mile connectivity - thematerial basis for the "death of distance". 2. Globalconnections and local disconnections: global city opticfibre networks and the filtering of local connectivity. 3."Location, bandwidth, location": optic fibre lines and thecustomization of urban "Telecom hotels". 4. The geographiesof back-up: the emergence of ultra-secure e-commerceenclosures. 5. A research agenda: understandingelectronically-mediated reconfigurations of urban space.