Intelligent Environments

INTELLIGENT ENVIRONMENTS

Contents

v Introduction

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Contributors

A Pilot for a Journal

Tomorrow's Metropolis: Virtualization Takes Command

Peter Droege

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The New Centrality: The Impact of Telematics and Globalization

Saskia Sassen

29

Glossy Globalization. Unpacking a Loaded Discourse

Peter Marcuse

49

IT 2000: Singapore's Vision of an Intelligent Island

Chun Wei Choo

67

Korea's

Development Strategy

for Information and

Telecommunications

in the 21st Century

Seungtaik Yang

77

New Information Technologies for Australia

Marina Cavill

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Knowledge-Based Manufacturing and Regional Change:

A

Case Study of the Scientific and Medical Equipment Industry

in Australia

Amanda Garnsworthy and Kevin O'Connor

Telecommunications Policy for Regional Development:

Empirical Evidence in Europe

Roberta Capello and Peter Nijkamp

Telecommunications and Economic Growth. The Direction of Causality

Donald Lamberton

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Marketspace: The New Locus of Value Creation

Jeffrey E Rayport and John J. Sviolka

Reinventing Democracy

William Dutton

Telework: An Intelligent Managerial Initiative

Jack Wood

Telecommunications and the Urban Environment:

Electronic and Physical Links

Simon Marvin

Telematics and Transport Policy: Making the Connection

Stephen Potter

Open Service Platforms for the Information Society

Radu Popescu-Zeletin and Thomas Magedanz

Environmental Information for Intelligent Decisions

Tricia Kaye, Stewart Noble and Wayne Slater

Intelligence About Our Environment

Harry Bruhns

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Cities as Movement Economies

Bill Hillier

345

Electronics, Dense Urban

Populations and Community

Perry King and Santiago Miranda

354

Paradoxes and Parables of Intelligent Environments

Alan Bowen-James

386

Cognitive Cities: Intelligence, Environment and Space

Marcos Novak

421

The Art of Virtual Reality

Michael Helm

439

Hybrid Architectures and the Paradox of Unfolding

Peter Lunenfeld

451

Structuring Virtual Urban Space:

Arborescent Schemas

Michael Ostwald

484

The Declining Significance of Traditional

Borders (and the Appearance of New Borders)

in an Age of High Technology

Gary T. Marx

495

Language, Space and Information

Richard Coyne

518

Labyrinths of the Mind and the City: Both Real and Virtual

M. Christine Boyer

539

Architecture Versus the New Media

Martin Pawley

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Recombinant Architecture

William J. Mitchell

Immutable Infrastructure or Dynamic Architectures?

Ann Godfrey

Intelligent Building Enclosure as Energy and Information Mediator

Ardeshir Mahdavi and Khee Poh Lam

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Computer City

Ken Sakamura

Interactive Strategies in

Virtual Architecture and

Art

Wolfgang Strauss, Monika Fleischmann

and Christian-A. Bohn

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Hybrid Architectures:

Media/Information Environments

Bill Seaman

IntelliText: An Environment for Electronic Manuscripts

Bob Jansen and Daniel Ferrer

The Uncanny Home. Or Living Online with Others

Scott McQuire

About the Authors

About the Editor

Credits

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Above and at the start of each chapter:

Images from the installation

Passage Sets~One Pulls

Pivots at the Tip of the Tongue

by Bill Seaman.

The work combines an interactive videodisc, a navigable

poem and an automatic poem generator. A set of stills,

with poetic text superimposed from a series of panoramas

presented on a data projector, may be navigated by the

viewer by triggering different parts of the screen.

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