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TL;DR: In this article, Castells summarises his current ideas for research on urban transformation and summarises some of the results of this work. But they focus on the problems of cities and regions.
Abstract: Over the past year or so, I have expanded my work in both areas of my current research. I have explored deeper the interaction between information technology and society, some outcomes of which have recently been published on the internet (Castells 2001). I have also continued my analysis of spatial transformation through an interdisciplinary approach to the problems of cities and regions. This paper summarises my current ideas for research on urban transformation.

159 citations



BookDOI
01 Jan 2002

69 citations


Book
01 Jan 2002
TL;DR: Castells as discussed by the authors presented a theoretical approach to the City in Advanced Capitalism, focusing on the relationship between social movements and urban culture, as well as their relationship to the history of the United States.
Abstract: List of Figures. List of Tables. Acknowledgments. Manuel Castells: Conceptualizing the City in the Information Age: Ida Susser. Part I: A Theoretical Approach to the City in Advanced Capitalism:. 1. Urbanization (1972):. Epistemological Introduction. The Historical Process of Urbanization. The Urban Phenomenon. 2. The Urban Ideology (1972):. The Myth of Urban Culture. From Urban Society to Urban Revolution. The Urban Sub--cultures. Part II: Social Movements and Urban Culture:. 3. Immigrant Workers and Class Struggles in Advanced Capitalism: The Western European Experience (1975). 4. Collective Consumption and Urban Contradictions in Advanced Capitalism (1978). 5. City and Culture: The San Francisco Experience (1983). San Francisco: The Social Basis of Urban Quality. Urban Poverty, Ethnic Minorities and Community Organization: The Experience of Neighbourhood Mobilization in San Franciscoa s Mission District. Cultural Identity, Sexual Liberation and Urban Structure: The Gay Community in San Francisco. Methodological Appendix. Part III: The City in the Information Age:. 6. The Informational Mode of Development and the Restructuring of Capitalism (1989). 7. Information Technology, the Restructuring of Capital--Labor Relationships and the Rise of the Dual City (1989). 8. The Space of Flows (1996, second edition 2000). 9. The Culture of Cities in the Information Age (new essay ,1999). Conclusion: Urban Sociology in the Twenty--first Century (new essay, 2000). Bibliography of Urban and Regional Studies by Manuel Castells, 1967--2000. Index.

66 citations



Book ChapterDOI
03 Oct 2002

55 citations


Book ChapterDOI
31 Oct 2002

33 citations



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01 Dec 2002
TL;DR: In this paper, a sociologia urbana is defined as a "novissima" metodologia, in which a sociedade em rede se organizes em tomo da oposicao do global and do local; no quadro do conhecimento, e a nivel da forma espacial, na base das tensoes e articulacoes entre o espaco de fluxos and o espacio de lugares.
Abstract: Partindo de uma interrogacao que o proprio autor se colocava a si proprio em 1968, sobre a eventual existencia de uma sociologia urbana- num posicionamento que rapidamente se colocaria como uma referencia fundamental naquela epoca sobre a questao urbana- o presente texto abre para diversos pressupostos que possam permitir hoje, uma resposta afirmativa a questao entao colocada. Comentando os dois paradigmas fundamentais representados entao pelo autor, mas tambem por H. Lefebvre) que, a partir daquela epoca, integraram a "nova sociologia urbana", o autor justifica a obsolescencia dessa postura, num contexto de generalizada urbanizacao a escala global e perante a emergencia do que designa de Era lnformacional, surgindo assim a necessidade de uma "novissima" sociologia das cidades. Este novo paradigma e entao sustentado em tres eixos fundamentais: ao nivel funcional, em que a sociedade em rede se organiza em tomo da oposicao do global e do local; no quadro do conhecimento, em que aquela sociedade se caracteriza pela oposicao entre individualismo e comunalismo; ao nivel da forma espacial, na base das tensoes e articulacoes entre o espaco de fluxos e o espaco de lugares. No final do artigo, o autor sistematiza temas para uma sociologia urbana do seculo XXI, terminando por enfatizar a necessidade de novos instrumentos de analise, quer em termos conceptuais, quer no quadro de novas metodologias.

21 citations


Journal Article
TL;DR: The authors analyzes conexiones entre the nueva economia and el desarrollo economico and social and propone un modelo de desarroko basado en la información y conocimiento.
Abstract: La aparicion y consolidacion de una nueva economia, cuya base material son las tecnologias de la informacion y la comunicacion, tiene importantes consecuencias sobre el desarrollo global. La evidencia empirica internacional muestra una creciente desigualdad y exclusion social, que convive con este extraordinario proceso de innovacion tecnologica y dinamismo economico. Este articulo analiza las conexiones entre la nueva economia y el desarrollo economico y social y propone un modelo de desarrollo basado en la informacion y el conocimiento que permita superar a desigualdad global estructural.

13 citations


Book ChapterDOI
31 Oct 2002


Book ChapterDOI
31 Oct 2002


Book ChapterDOI
31 Oct 2002




Book ChapterDOI
03 Oct 2002

Book ChapterDOI
31 Oct 2002

Book ChapterDOI
31 Oct 2002