ABSTRACT
The maps that will fill the blank pages in the atlas of Bangalore’s future have yet to be drawn. Yet architects and planners as well as politicians and business elites have already begun to conceive the spatial forms that will fill these pages and have attempted to make them concrete in the landscape of the city. These conceptions of the city, like many before them, are utopian visions that foresee a new and wholly transformed city/urban landscape. In the case of informational urbanism these conceptions are founded on the transformative potential of new information technologies. The discourse of informational urbanism, which both contributes to and is produced from these conceptions, is thus a utopian discourse based on an as yet unrealized imaginary.
