Information Technology: Social and Spatial Perspectives

Proceedings of an International Conference on Information Technology and its Impact on the Urban-Environmental System Held at the Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi, Japan, November 1986

AvIsao Orishimo,Geoffrey J.D. Hewings

Häftad, Engelska, 1988

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Beskrivning

The book contains perspectives on the way new informationtechnology might reorient the spatial organization ofactivity. The perspectives range from conceptual, high-lighting the role of research and development to casestudies from Japan. Considerable debate is focused on therole of distance and the way in which new informationtechnology might re-shape interaction and, eventually, theform and function of urban areas.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1988-09-14
Mått:170 x 244 x 16 mm
Vikt:495 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems
Antal sidor:268
Förlag:Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
ISBN:9783540501589

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Innehållsförteckning

1. Information Technology: Social and Spatial Perspectives.- A: Information Technology and Society.- 2. Research, Technological Development and Structural Change.- 3. Communication and Regional Planning: Some Systemic Remarks.- 4. The Telecommunication System in Society.- 5. Telecommunications in an Advanced Information Society: A Japanese Perspective.- 6. Assessment of New Information Services in Japan.- 7. Information Technology in an International Perspective.- 8. Role of Information in Technology Transfer.- B: Information Technology and Space.- 9. Telecommunication and the Tyranny of Space.- 10. The Long-Term Impacts of the Telecommunication Industry and Information Technology.- 11. Information Technology, the Urban System and Urban Policy Consequences.- 12. Combining Communication and Transport Technology to Improve Urban Travel Choices.- 13. Information Technology and Location.- C: Impact Models of New Technologies.- 14. Technical Innovation and Input-Output Analysis.- 15. Optimal Pricing of Telecommunications Service in an Advanced Information-Oriented Society.- 16. Evaluation of Telecommunication Systems with Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis: A Game Theoretic Approach.- 17. Computer-Aided Multiobjective Decision Making Under Risk.- 18. Development of Informatics and Possible Changes in Urbanisation Processes.- Contributing Authors.