Digital Cities

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-IX

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2. Design and Analysis Perspectives

   1. Designing the Digital City

      • William J. Mitchell

      Pages 1-6

   2. Understanding Digital Cities

      • Toru Ishida

      Pages 7-17

   3. Digital Cities: Organization, Content, and Use

      • Peter van den Besselaar, Isabel Melis, Dennis Beckers

      Pages 18-32

   4. Digital City or Urban Simulator?

      • Alessandro Aurigi

      Pages 33-44

   5. Next Generation Community Networking: Futures for Digital Cities

      • Artur Serra

      Pages 45-57

3. Digital City Experiments

   1. Experiences of European Digital Cities

      • Eric Mino

      Pages 58-72

   2. The Information Society in the City of Antwerp

      • Bruno Peeters

      Pages 73-82

   3. Helsinki Arena 2000 - Augmenting a Real City to a Virtual One

      • Risto Linturi, Marja-Riitta Koivunen, Jari Sulkanen

      Pages 83-96

   4. The Geographic Information System (GIS) of Turin Municipality

      • Guido Bolatto, Adriano Sozza, Ivano Gauna, Maddalena Rusconi

      Pages 97-109

   5. Digital City Bristol: A Case Study

      • Annelies de Bruine

      Pages 110-124

   6. Digital City Shanghai: Towards Integrated Information & Service Environment

      • Ding Peng, Mao Wei Liang, Rao Ruo Nan, Sheng Huan Ye, Ma Fan Yuan, Toru Ishida

      Pages 125-139

   7. Experiments in the Digital ‘Engineering City Oulu’

      • Lech Krzanik, Minna Mäkäräinen

      Pages 140-150

4. Community Network Experiments

   1. Reconfiguring Community Networks: The Case of PrairieKNOW

      • Noshir Contractor, Ann Peterson Bishop

      Pages 151-164

   2. The Mutual Development of Role, Rule, and Tool Through the VCOM Project

      • Shoko Miyagawa, Ikuyo Kaneko

      Pages 165-178

   3. Davis Community Network (DCN): A Regional Community Networking Initiative in North-Central California

      • Richard Lowenberg

      Pages 179-193

   4. Examining Community in the Digital Neighborhood: Early Results from Canada’s Wired Suburb

      • Keith N. Hampton, Barry Wellman

      Pages 194-208

   5. On-line Forums as an Arena for Political Discussions

      • Agneta Ranerup

      Pages 209-223

5. Applications of Digital Cities

   1. Towards the Integration of Physical and Virtual Worlds for Supporting Group Learning

      • Fusako Kusunoki, Masanori Sugimoto, Hiromichi Hashizume

      Pages 224-235

   2. Digital City for Disaster Reduction

      • Haruo Hayashi, Satoshi Tanaka, Kazunori Urabe, Haruhide Yoshida, Satoshi Inoue, Hideki Shima et al.

      Pages 236-245

On the way towards the Information Society, global networks such as the Internet, together with mobile computing, have made wide-area computing over virtual communities a reality. Digital city projects, with the goal of building platforms to support community networking, are going on worldwide.
This is the first book devoted to digital cities. It is based on an international symposium held in Kyoto, Japan, in September 1999. The 34 revised full papers presented were carefully selected for inclusion in the book; they reflect the state of the art in this exciting new field of interdisciplinary research and development. The book is divided into parts on design and analysis, digital city experiments, community network experiments, applications, visualization technologies, mobile technologies, and social interaction and communityware.

• Community
• Community Computing
• Community Networking
• Computer Supported Collaborative Work
• Digital Cities
• Digital Meeting Places
• Distance Learning
• Information Society
• Internet
• Social Informatics
• Spatial Information Processing
• Virtual Communities
• digital
• visualization

• Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

  Toru Ishida

• Netsage Corporation, San Francisco, USA

  Katherine Isbister

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