Intelligent Environments: Spatial Aspects of the Information RevolutionP. Droege Elsevier, 1997 M03 20 - 727 pages The environment, as modified and created by people, is largely about the use of information, its generation and exchange. How do recent innovations in the technologies of information management and communication affect our use of space and place, and the way we perceive and think about our surroundings? This volume provides an international, exploratory forum for the complex phenomenon of new information and communication technology as it permeates and transforms our physical world, and our relation to it: the architectural definition of our surrounding, geographical space, urban form and immediate habitats. This book is a reader, an attempt at registering disciplinary changes in context, at tracing subtexts for which most mainstream disciplines have no established language. The project is to give voice to an emerging meta-discipline that has its logic across the specializations. A wide range of professionals and academics report findings, views and ideas. Together, they describe the architecture of a postmodern paradigm: how swiftly mutating the proliferating technology applications have begun to interact with the construction and reading of physical space in architecture, economics, geography, history, planning, social sciences, transport, visual art - but also in the newer domains that have joined this spectrum through the very nature of their impacts: information technology and telecommunications. The space navigated in this volume is vast, both in physical terms and in its virtual and analogous form. It ranges from the space that immediately encompasses, or is simulated to encompass, the human body - as in buildings and virtual tectonics - to that of towns and regions. We stay clear of molecular-scale space, and of dimensions that are larger than earth. |
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... activities and global integration which has contributed to a strategic role for major cities in the current phase of the world economy. Beyond their sometimes long history as centers for world trade and banking, these cities now ...
... activities, firms and jobs that is necessary to run the advanced corporate economy. Specialized services are usually understood in terms of specialized outputs rather than production processes. A focus on the production process in these ...
... activities. The fundamental dynamic that I posit is that the more globalized the economy becomes, the higher the agglomeration of central functions in global cities. The sharp increase in the 1980s in the density of office buildings ...
... activities and actors in Sydney. This included a loss of share of such activities and actors by Melbourne, long the center of commercial activity and wealth in Australia. At the international level, leading financial centers are of ...
... activities between each of these cities and others in the same country.2 For instance Paris now concentrates a larger share of leading economic sectors and wealth in France than it did twenty years ago, while Marseilles—once a major ...
Contents
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Intelligence Environment and Space | 386 |
Chapter 21 The Art of Virtual Reality | 421 |
Chapter 22 Hybrid Architectures and the Paradox of Unfolding | 439 |
Arborescent Schemas | 451 |
Chapter 24 The Declining Significance of Traditional Borders and the Appearance of New Borders in an Age of High Technology | 484 |
Chapter 25 Language Space and Information | 495 |
Both Real and Virtual | 518 |
Chapter 27 Architecture Versus the New Media | 539 |
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Chapter 9 Marketspace The New Locus of Value Creation | 140 |
Chapter 10 Reinventing Democracy | 152 |
An Intelligent Managerial Initiative | 161 |
Electronic and Physical Links | 179 |
Making the Connection | 199 |
Chapter 14 Open Service Platforms for the Information Society | 214 |
Chapter 15 Environmental Information for Intelligent Decisions | 245 |
Chapter 16 Intelligence About Our Environment | 260 |
Chapter 17 Cities as Movement Economies | 295 |
Chapter 18 Electronics Dense Urban Populations and Community | 345 |
Chapter 19 Paradoxes and Parables of Intelligent Environments | 354 |
Chapter 28 Recombinant Architecture | 551 |
Chapter 29 Immutable Infrastructure or Dynamic Architectures? | 584 |
Chapter 30 Intelligent Building Enclosure as Energy and Information Mediator | 599 |
Chapter 31 Computer City | 624 |
Chapter 32 Interactive Strategies in Virtual Architecture and Art | 632 |
Chapter 33 Hybrid Architectures MediaInformation Environments | 642 |
An Environment for Electronic Manuscripts | 663 |
Or Living Online with Others | 682 |
About the Authors | 711 |
About the Editor | 726 |
Credits | 727 |
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