Becoming urban or bypassed in the periurban? An emerging challenge for global ethics
TL;DR: Periurban bypasses as discussed by the authors are enclaves that appear to be left behind of conventional spatial and technological processes, and the focus on cities and their development, the hinterland serves as a resourc...
Abstract: Periurban bypasses are enclaves that appear to be left behind of conventional spatial and technological processes. With the focus on cities and their development, the hinterland serves as a resourc...
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TL;DR: Jackie Greenfield has chosen to shift her career toward popular writing, on topics on which she has not done original research, while trading on her status as a scientist.
Abstract: Online attacks on Greenfield have at times seemed personal. She has also been criticized for promoting her ideas publicly and not subjecting them to professional scrutiny. Competing philosophies are at play about the public role of scientists. Greenfield has chosen to shift her career toward popular writing, on topics on which she has not done original research, while trading on her status as a scientist. Should her book therefore be dismissed completely? No. Is this practice good for science and society, and do the circumstances in this case justify it? Reasonable people could disagree.
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TL;DR: In this article , if and how periurban areas experience different forms of mobility-related inequalities in three Latin American metropolises in Brazil, Chile, and Colombia (São Paulo, Santiago, and Bogotá, respectively).
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01 Jan 1996
TL;DR: The Rise of the Network Society as discussed by the authors is an account of the economic and social dynamics of the new age of information, which is based on research in the USA, Asia, Latin America, and Europe, it aims to formulate a systematic theory of the information society which takes account of fundamental effects of information technology on the contemporary world.
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This ambitious book is an account of the economic and social dynamics of the new age of information. Based on research in the USA, Asia, Latin America, and Europe, it aims to formulate a systematic theory of the information society which takes account of the fundamental effects of information technology on the contemporary world.
The global economy is now characterized by the almost instantaneous flow and exchange of information, capital and cultural communication. These flows order and condition both consumption and production. The networks themselves reflect and create distinctive cultures. Both they and the traffic they carry are largely outside national regulation. Our dependence on the new modes of informational flow gives enormous power to those in a position to control them to control us. The main political arena is now the media, and the media are not politically answerable.
Manuel Castells describes the accelerating pace of innovation and application. He examines the processes of globalization that have marginalized and now threaten to make redundant whole countries and peoples excluded from informational networks. He investigates the culture, institutions and organizations of the network enterprise and the concomitant transformation of work and employment. He points out that in the advanced economies production is now concentrated on an educated section of the population aged between 25 and 40: many economies can do without a third or more of their people. He suggests that the effect of this accelerating trend may be less mass unemployment than the extreme flexibilization of work and individualization of labor, and, in consequence, a highly segmented socialstructure.
The author concludes by examining the effects and implications of technological change on mass media culture ("the culture of real virtuality"), on urban life, global politics, and the nature of time and history. Written by one of the worlds leading social thinkers and researchers The Rise of the Network Society is the first of three linked investigations of contemporary global, economic, political and social change. It is a work of outstanding penetration, originality, and importance.
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01 Jan 2003
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe how America's power grew and how capital bondage was used for accumulation by dispossession and consent to coercion by consenting to coercion.
Abstract: 1 All about Oil 2 How America's Power Grew 3 Capital Bondage 4 Accumulation by Dispossession 5 Consent to Coercion AFTERWORD Further Reading Bibliography Notes Index
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01 Aug 1991
TL;DR: A glossary of edge cities can be found in this article, where the authors examine how these Edge Cities are dramatically changing the way most of us live our lives, from the kinds of jobs Edge Cities generate to whether they will ever be good places to fall in love or hold a Fourth of July parade.
Abstract: We Americans are going through the most radical change in a century in how we build our world, and most of us don't even know it. From coast to coast, every metropolis that is growing is doing so by sprouting strange new kinds of places: Edge Cities. Most of us now spend our entire lives in and around these Edge Cities, yet we barely recognize them for what they are. That's because they look nothing like the old downtowns; they meet none of our preconceptions of what constitutes a city. This book explains how these Edge Cities are dramatically changing the way most of us live our lives--our homes, our transportation, our jobs, our social lives. Everything is examined, from the kinds of jobs Edge Cities generate to whether they will ever be good places to fall in love or hold a Fourth of July parade. We are challenged to reconsider who, exactly, we are. A glossary is provided. Among its many definitions are the following: pavement deficiency - a pothole; pedestrian walkway - a sidewalk; street furniture - everything exposed to the weather put there by the hand of man, not counting roads, buildings, and plants; streetscape - a road on which sufficient design review has been expended such that the Street Furniture, Signage, and Luminaires all match and/or are festooned with flags; supercommuter - a person whose round trip to work exceeds a hundred miles each day.
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