Digital City

MICHEL S. LAGUERRE is Professor and Director of the Berkeley Center for Globalization and Information Technology at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He has published several books, including The Global Ethnopolis; Chinatown, Japantown and Manilatown in American Society, Urban Multiculturalism and Globalisation in New York City, Diasporic Citizenship, The Informal City, and Minoritized Space: An Inquiry into the Spatial Order of Things. His most recent book Diasporic Politics; Transnational Networks of Global Governance is forthcoming.

'...it has been a pleasure to review a book that seems to offer to the reader, as a matter of course, the solidity of facts, data and references. This has been achieved without boring the reader...The author achieves fully and successfully his intent.' - Lanfranco Aceti, Information, Communication& Society

• Introduction IT as Process and Globalization as Outcome Teleworkers and Telemanagers: IT and Telecommuting in the Digital City The Digital Office Virtual City Hall: The Governance of Local E-Governance Virtual Diasporas and Cyberspace Virtual Time: The Processuality of the Cyberweek Conclusion: The Digital City as the Virtual Embodiment of the Global City