Societies and Cities in the Age of Instant Access

"Societies and Cities in the Age of Instant Access provides a timely, broad, and richly detailed look at today's most important driving forces in the development and evolution of city life -- the advent of online and mobile information and communication technologies, and the widespread availability of access devices. Just as the railroad, automobile, the elevator transformed the shape of cities and the ways people conduct their urban lives in the 19th and 20th centuries, the Internet and the mobile telephone are driving far more rapid changes in the 21st century." Howard Rheingold

• Societies and cities in the age of instant access.- Cities and the Built Environment.- The new middle landscape.- Imagining the recursive city: explorations in urban simulacra.- Download my building: How building information modeling will transform our cities.- Misses, near-misses and surprises in forecasting the informational city.- Activities in Space and Time.- Does instant access promote sedentary behavior? Putting physical activity on the instant-access-in-cities agenda.- Revisiting Hägerstrand’s time-geographic framework for individual activities in the age of instant access.- Dynamic prisms and ‘‘instant access’’: linking opportunities in space to decision making in time.- Where do you want to go today [in attribute space]?.- Transportation.- Reexamining ICT impact on travel using the 2001 NHTS data for baltimore metropolitan area.- Influence of mobility information services on travel behavior.- Shared ride trip planning with geosensor networks.- Mobile Information Services.- Mobile ICT in public spaces and its impact on privacy.- The dimensions of locational privacy.- Location-based services: Enabling technologies and a concierge service model.- From cyberspace to DigiPlace: Visibility in an age of information and mobility.- Paradoxical consequences of location-based services (LBS): A tetradic analysis using McLuhan’s laws of media.- Social and Economic Networks.- The evolving social geography of blogs.- Cell phones and places: The use of mobile technologies in Brazil.- Inter-firm relations in the age of instant access: Case of the U.S. logistics industry.- Community.- Rethinking public participation as instant access to virtual meetings.- Digital middletown: a glimpse at the information society.