I. INTRODUCTION

8/28—Personal & Course Introductions

II. OVERVIEW AND GENERAL APPROACHES

8/30—Information Technology and Urban Studies-1

Graham, Stephen (2002) “FlowCity: Networked Mobilities and the Contemporary Metropolis”
Journal of Urban Technology, 2002, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 1-20 (pdf file)

9/2 No Class

9/4—Information Technology and Urban Studies-2

Graham, Stephen and Simon Marvin. (1996) Telecommunications and the City (London:Routledge)., Chapter 3, pp77-122.

III. URBAN ECONOMICS IN THE INFORMATION AGE

9/6—Overview of Information Economy 

9/9—Geography of the Internet

Zook, M.A. (2000). The Web of Production: The Economic Geography of Commercial Internet Content Production in the United States. Environment and Planning A, Vol 32. 411-426.

9/11—Innovation and Ubiquification

Storper, Michael (1997)The Regional World:Territorial Development in a Global Economy (New York:Guilford Press) chapter 5 “Innovation as Collective Action:Conventions, Products, Technologies, and Territories” pp. 107-133

Wheeler, Aoyama and Warf (2000) Cities in the Telecommunications Age. (London:Routledge).chapters 13-15, pp. 200-248.

9/13—Learning Region—Silicon Valley Case Study 

Kenney, Martin (2000) “Institutions and Economies:Creating Silicon Valley” in Saxenian, AnnaLee (2000) “The Origins and Dynamics of Production Networks in Silicon Valley” in Kenney, Martin, ed. Understanding Silicon Valley:The Anatomy of an Entrepreneurial Region. (Palo Alto: Stanford University Press)

Johnson, Craig (2000) “Advising the New Economy:The Role of Lawyers” in Lee, Chong-Moon et al, eds. The Silicon Valley Edge:A Habitat for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Palo Alto:Stanford University Press)

Joint Venture Silicon Valley:2002 Indexhttp://www.jointventure.org/resources/2002Index/index.html

9/16—Silicon Valley’s Underbelly

Silicon Valley Debug:http://www.siliconvalleydebug.org/

Working Partnerships USA, Growing Together or Drifting Apart.(pdf file)

9/18—Science Parks, Advanced Telecommunications and Economic Development

Castells, Manuel and Peter Hall (1994) Technopoles of the World:The Making of Twenty-First Century Industrial Complexes (Londgon:Routledge) chapter 9 “Distilling the Lessons”

9/20—CyberEconomy

9/23—Culture Industries

Scott, Allen J. 1999. "The US recorded music industry:on the relations between organization, location, and creativity in the cultural economy." Environment and Planning A 31, pp. 1965-1984.

9/25—Back Offices/Call Centers

Breatnach, P. (2000) `Globalisation, Information Technology and the Emergence of Niche Transnational Cities: The Growth of the Call Centre Sector in Dublin', Geoforum 31: 477±85.

Richardson, R., V. Belt and J.N. Marshall (2000) `Taking Calls to Newcastle: The Regional Implications of the Growth in Call Centres', Regional Studies 34(4): 357±69.

Uchitelle, Louis (2002) “Answering '800' Calls Offers Extra Income but No Security”, New York Times, March 27, 2002.

Deloitte & Touche, (2001) 2000 Call Center Location Survey 

9/27--Tourism and Urban Development

Hannes Werthner and Stefan Klein (1999) “ICT and the Changing Landscape of Global Tourism Distribution” Electronic Markets 9(4) 256-262

Youcheng Wang*, Quaehee Yu, Daniel R. Fesenmaier (2002) Defining the virtual tourist community: implications for tourism marketing, Tourism Management 23 (2002) 407–417

9/30--Telework

Elizabeth K Burns (2000) “Travel, Gender and Work:Emerging Commuting Choices in Inner-City Phoenix”in Wheeler, Aoyama and Warf (2000) Cities in the Telecommunications Age. (London:Routledge).pp. 267-282

Gurstein Penny. 2001. Wired to the World, Chained to the Home:Telework in Daily Life. (Vancouver: UBC Press) chapters 1 & 9

10/2—Technology and Global Human Development

Intermediate Technology Development Group critique of the Human Development Report:http://www.itdg.org/html/whats_new/technology_poverty_future_pr.htm

IV. INFRASTRUCTURE AND URBAN FORM 

10/4—Networked Infrastructures and the Urban Condition

Graham, Stephen and Simon Marvin (2001) Splintering Urbanism (London:Routledge) Prologue and Chapter 1, “Introduction” pp. 1-36

Graham, Stephen (2000) “Constructing premium network spaces:reflections on infrastructure networks and contemporary urban development”International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 24.1, 183-2000

Coutard, Olivier (2002) ‘Premium Network Spaces: A Comment’, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 26.1, March, 166-74

Graham, Stephen (2002) “On Technology, Infrastructure, and the Contemporary Urban Condition:A Response to Coutard” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 26.1, 175-82

10/7—The Modern Ideal of Infrastructure

10/9—Splintering the Modern Ideal 

10/11—City as Sociotechnical Process

1014—No Class, Fall Break

10/16—Transportation

10/18—Water Provision

Municipal Services Project (Water Provision in South Africa) http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~mspadmin/

Polaris Institute— http://www.polarisinstitute.org

V. URBAN SOCIAL AND CULTURAL LIFE 

10/21—Overview

Schön et al., eds. (2001) High Technology and Low-Income Communities (Cambridge:MIT Press) Introduction and Part ISetting the Context, pp. 1-150.

Servon, Lisa, (2002)Bridging the Digital Divide:Technology, Community and Public Policy(Oxford:Blackwell), excerpts

10/23—Social Landscapes of Splintering Urbanism

10/25—“Glocal Infrastructure”

10/28—Technological Access

US Dept of Commerce (2000) Falling Through the Net:Toward Digital Inclusion (pdf file)

Servon, Lisa, (2002)Bridging the Digital Divide:Technology, Community and Public Policy(Oxford:Blackwell), excerpts

Benton Foundation Communications Policy & Practice http://www.benton.org/cpphome.html

10/30—Community Computing

Community Technology Center Network, http://www.ctcnet.org/

PolicyLink Technology Program: http://www.policylink.org/technology/index.html

11/1—International Digital Divide

Digital Opportunity Task Force:http://www.dotforce.org/

http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org

11/4—Surveillance

Koskela, Hille. 2000. 'The gaze without the eyes': video-surveillance and the changing nature of urban space. Progress in Human Geography 24:2, 243-65

11/6—CyberBodies

Durrschmidt Jorg. 2000. Everyday Lives in the Global City:The delinking of locale and milieu. London: Routledge Excerpts

Crang, M., P. Crang and J. May (eds.), 1999. Virtual Geographies: Bodies, space and relations. Routledge: London. Sussex Studies in Culture and Communication. Excerpts.

VI. URBAN GOVERNANCE

11/8—Overview of Governance Issues

Sassen, Saskia (1997)“Electronic space and power” Journal of Urban Technology V4, N1:1-17

11/11—Reinventing government—overview 

Digital Government Research Center, http://www.dgrc.org/

Center for Technology in Government, http://www.ctg.albany.edu/

11/13—Reinventing government—a business opportunity

11/15--Management and Service Issues

Metropolis:The Information Society and The City commission Report on E-Government (pdf file)

UNDP Urban Governance Program http://www.tugi.apdip.net/

11/18—Democratization and Participation

Heeks, Richard, ed. (1999)Reinventing Government in the Information Age (London:Routledge) Chapters 8-10, pp. 177-230

Schön et al., eds. (2001) High Technology and Low-Income Communities (Cambridge:MIT Press), chapter 7, “Information Technologies that Change Relationships between Low-Income Communities and the Public, and Nonprofit Agencies that Serve Them” by Joseph Ferreira, Jr., and chapter 8, “Planning Support Systems for Low-Income Communities”, by Michael J. Shiffer, pp. 163-212

InfoResources West Philly: http://westphillydata.library.upenn.edu/

Neighborhood Knowledge Los Angeles: http://nkla.sppsr.ucla.edu/

Digital Visualization of the Built Environment Resources from the Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis, http://www.onlineplanning.org/

11/20—Urban Social Movements

Holsten, J. (1998) “Spaces of Insurgent Citizenship” in Leonie Sandercock, eds. Making the Invisible Visible:A Multicultural Planning History (Berkeley:UC Press)

Kellner, D. 1999. “New technologies: technocities and the prospects for democratization.” in J Downey, J McGuigan, ed. Technocities. London: Sage

Wireless Text Messaging helped bring down Philippines President Joseph Estrada, http://www.alteich.com/tidbits/t031901.htm

VII. URBAN FUTURES 

11/22—Policy Options—Urban Governance 

Graham, Stephen and Simon Marvin (2001) Splintering Urbanism (London:Routledge) Chapter 8, “Conclusion”, and Postscript, pp. 379-420

Schön et al., eds. (2001) High Technology and Low-Income Communities (Cambridge:MIT Press), chapter 16, “Information Technology and Urban Poverty:The Role of Public Policy”, pp. 371-394

PolicyLink (2001)Bridging the Organizational Divide:Toward a Comprehensive Approach to the Digital Divide (pdf file)

Hall, Peter, Pfeiffer, Ulrich. 2000. Urban Future 21:A Global Agneda for Twenty-First Century Cities. London: E & FN Spon, especially Chapter 5 “Good Governance in Practice, An Action Plan”

11/25—Confronting the International Digital Divide—Policy Options

www.digitalopportunity.org

UNESCO Communications and Information Sector: http://www.unesco.org/webworld/index.shtml

UN ICT Task Force, http://www.unicttaskforce.org

World Summit on the Information Society, http://www.itu.int/wsis/

11/27—No Class

VIII. STUDENTS PRESENTATIONS

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