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The emergence of the Information Society has been catalysing numerous changes within our cities and regions, as well as setting the scene for many projects that aim to enhancing the quality of urban life through the exploitation of new Information and Communication Technologies. The fact that ICTs can allow users to transcend, at least to a certain extent, the typical limitations in space and time of traditional lifestyles and working practices, is generating a growing interest for the social impacts of IT in our towns and regions, as well as for the opportunities that can stem from appropriate applications of these technologies. This paper is about the shaping of this increasingly ‘digital’ city that we live in, but it does not focus on the characteristics of the projects it is made of, and their contents. Instead, it tries to reflect on how its character can be affected by the visions and interpretations of what the city is, and of what role new technologies can play. In a way it is a reflection on processes, rather than contents, and on what underpins different approaches and configurations of the digital city.
Author(s): Aurigi A
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Knowledge, Technology & Policy
Year: 2005
Volume: 18
Issue: 1
Pages: 12-26
Print publication date: 01/03/2005
Date deposited: 18/04/2008
ISSN (print): 0897-1986
ISSN (electronic): 1874-6314
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12130-005-1013-z
DOI: 10.1007/s12130-005-1013-z
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