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Societies and cities in the age of instant access

2007; Springer Nature (Netherlands); Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/1-4020-5427-0_1

2215-0072

Harvey J. Miller,

Smart Parking Systems Research

Preface, Harvey J. Miller.- Section I. Introduction.- Societies and cities in the age of instant access, Harvey J. Miller.- Section II. Cities and the Built Environment.- The new middle landscape, Brian Cavanaugh.- Imagining the recursive city: Explorations into urban simulacra, Michael Batty and Anthony Hudson-Smith.- Download my building: How building information modeling will transform our cities, David Scheer and Ryan Smith.- Misses, near-misses and surprises in forecasting the informational city, Helen Couclelis.- Section III. Activities in Space and Time.- Does instant access promote sedentary behavior? Putting physical activity on the instant-access-in-cities agenda, Susan Hanson and Danielle Fontaine.- Revisiting Hagerstrand's time-geographic framework for individual activities in the age of instant access, Hongbo Yu and Shih-lung Shaw.- Dynamic prisms and 'instant access': Linking opportunities in space to decision making in time, Pip Forer, Otto Huisman and Chris McDowall.- Where do you want to go today [in attribute space]? Andre Skupin.- Section IV. Transportation.- Reexamining ICT impact on travel, Feng Zhang, Kelly Clinton and Qing Shen.- Influence of mobility information services on transport behaviour, Verena Franken and Barbara Lenz.- Shared ride trip planning with geosensor networks, Silvia Nittel, Stephan Winter, Arda Nural and Trang Cao.- Section V. Mobile Information Services.- Mobile ICT in public spaces and its impact on privacy, Karsten Weber, Ricarda Drueke, Axel Schulz.- The dimensions of locational privacy, Scott Bridwell.- Location-based services: Enabling technologies and a concierge service model, Seungmo Kang, Tschangho John Kim and Sung-Gheel Jang.- From Cyberspace to DigiPlace: Visibility in an age of information and mobility, Matthew Zook and Mark Graham.- Paradoxical consequences of location-based services: A tetradic analysis using McLuhan's Law of the Media, Daniel Sui.- Section VI. Social and Economic Networks.- Theevolving social geography of blogs, Suchirita Gopal.- Cell phones and places: The use of mobile technologies in Brazil, Adriana de Souza e Silva.- Inter-firm relations in the age of instant access: Case of the U.S. logistics industry, Yuko Aoyama and Samuel J. Ratick.- Section VII. Community.- Rethinking public participation as instant access to virtual meetings, Timothy Nyerges and Michael Patrick.- Digital Middletown: A glimpse at the information society, O'Neal Smitherman.