ABSTRACT
Electronic networking, while increasing time, place and work flexibility, is becoming an important factor for the general transformation of cityscapes. This new mode of development, though at an early stage of diffusion, shows signs of being able to alter many vital social, cultural and spatial relationships. It is embedding new conditions for many companies and individuals to become 'footloose'. The emerging development is causing new tensions between 'space of flows' and 'space of places'. It is creating a new segmented spatial structure of technologically 'favoured' and 'less-favoured' urban patterns, engendering crucial problems for disadvantaged inhabitants in the form of a new wave of displacements and rootlessness. Information technologies, though continually on the verge of turmoil, have become important forces of change in urban-regional settings in advanced capitalist systems. Despite the lower rate of new building production, substantial transformations are taking place in Stockholm.
