ABSTRACT

This chapter explores the characteristics of the changing temporalities associated with the use of network technologies and also discuss what impacts these changing practices have on the temporal characteristics of the city and its infrastructure. It discusses how time affects space, and opens up the temporal to consider socially constructed concepts of time such as rhythms and memory. Commuting or traveling was traditionally seen as unproductive time, it was often referred to as 'time-consuming'. The shift from sequenced, linear time structures to real-time also allows for the re-introduction of cyclical, sporadic and temporal events and experiences. The experience of time in the city is played out in the journeys, trips and movements we make. Patterns of movement over time reveal the nature of a person's presence in a space. The way that airports are a particular type of space that has started to become organised around time rather than space.