ABSTRACT
Whether one stresses the negative or positive aspects of post modern urban culture and telematics, it can be argued that the trends they embody are remaking the social and cultural meaning of the city. A city is now less a physical site for social interaction in public space-as in the modernist vision-and more a fixed place for the intersection of global networks that carry the instant flows of signs and information which currently shape urban social and cultural life. But, once again, we must be careful to avoid the assumption that there is one universal experience of these trends; rather, the meaning of urban places in the context of globalisation is extremely diverse both between places and between the social groups who inhabit them (Massey, 1993).
