Digital cities : technologies, experiences, and future perspectives

Digital Cities: Technologies, Experiences, and Future Perspectives
Author: Toru Ishida, Katherine Isbister
Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg
ISBN: 978-3-540-67265-4
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-46422-0

Table of Contents:

• Designing the Digital City
• Understanding Digital Cities
• Digital Cities: Organization, Content, and Use
• Digital City or Urban Simulator?
• Next Generation Community Networking: Futures for Digital Cities
• Experiences of European Digital Cities
• The Information Society in the City of Antwerp
• Helsinki Arena 2000 - Augmenting a Real City to a Virtual One
• The Geographic Information System (GIS) of Turin Municipality
• Digital City Bristol: A Case Study
• Digital City Shanghai: Towards Integrated Information & Service Environment
• Experiments in the Digital ‘Engineering City Oulu’
• Reconfiguring Community Networks: The Case of PrairieKNOW
• The Mutual Development of Role, Rule, and Tool Through the VCOM Project
• Davis Community Network (DCN): A Regional Community Networking Initiative in North-Central California
• Examining Community in the Digital Neighborhood: Early Results from Canada’s Wired Suburb
• On-line Forums as an Arena for Political Discussions
• Towards the Integration of Physical and Virtual Worlds for Supporting Group Learning
• Digital City for Disaster Reduction
• The Digital City’s Public Library: Support for Community Building and Knowledge Sharing

Revised selected papers presented at the Kyoto Meeting on Digital Cities, held September 1999
Includes bibliographical references and index