Societies and Cities in the Age of Instant Access - Miller, Harvey J.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2007)
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.
Keywords: Geography; Application software; Human geography; Urban planning; City planning; Geography, general; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Human Geography; Urbanism