ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights urban spatial organization and landscapes, in lieu of ubiquitous personal uses of information and communications technologies (ICTs). It relates two classical notions of urban geography and urban studies at large, namely spatial organization and urban landscapes, in lieu of the contemporary ubiquitous personal adoption and uses of media for virtual mobility. The chapter examines contemporary media for personal virtual mobility through three major facets of urban landscapes: motorized traffic; pedestrians and drivers; and spatial organization. A device/technology of particular significance for urban terrestrial mobility is Globally Positioned Satellites (GPS), demonstrating another facet of terrestrial and virtual mobilities. In other words, urban traffic presents the aggregate ways through which individual drivers and passengers direct and manage the three major dimensions of each of their trips: objectives; points of origin and destination; and routing. Urbanites could be classified, from a communications perspective, as being at any point in time engaged in some form of co-presence.
