The informational city: Information technology, economic restructuring, and the urban-regional process - Hardcover

Castells, Manuel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0631159886 ISBN 13: 9780631159889

Publisher: B. Blackwell, 1989

Synopsis

Discusses urban regional economics and Information Technology.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

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.

About the Author:

Manuel Castells has written fourteen books, including The Economic Crisis and American Society and The City and the Grassroots, winner of the 1983 C. Wright Mills Award.

About this edition

• Publisher: B. Blackwell
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0631159886
• ISBN 13: 9780631159889
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 402