“The Impact of the New Technologies and Globalization on Cities”: from Arie Graafland and Deborah Hauptmann (eds), Cities in Transition (2001)

Telecommunications and globalization have emerged as major forces shaping the organization of urban space. This reorganization ranges from the spatial virtualization of a growing number of social and economic activities to the reconfiguration of the geography of the built environment for these activities. Whether in electronic space or in the geography of the built environment, this reorganization involves a repositioning of the urban and of urban centrality in particular.