East West Perspectives on the 21st Century Urban Development: Sustainable Eastern and Western Cities in the New Millennium - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1840143177 ISBN 13: 9781840143171

Publisher: Ashgate Pub Ltd, 1999

Synopsis

Analyzing and chronicling the continued development of key information, communication and fast transport networks at a global and regional level, this book looks at the transition to an information-based economy, and its urban impacts, at a global, regional and city level. The book outlines the change by defining it as the third great societal transition in the history of human settlement, and points to key factors that have fuelled progress. These include the growth of global telecommunications and fast transport networks; the coming together of information and communication technologies and their links to transport and land use; the shift to information and knowledge as a resource base for new industries; the increasing movement of people and information; the emergence of cities as economic entities, network nodes, and centres for generating, exchanging and processing information, and, most significantly, the competition among cities for these new key elements of of the urban economy.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ashgate Pub Ltd
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1840143177
• ISBN 13: 9781840143171
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 446
• Editor: Brotchie John, Newton Peter, Hall Peter, Dickey John