INVITATION
A new international Elsevier publication - "Intelligent Environments" -
examines changing concepts of space brought about by new technology, across
a wide range of disciplines.
It will be launched in Australia by Senator the Hon Richard Alston,
Minister for Communication and the Arts on 21 May 1997 at 5 pm in the
National Innovation Centre, Australian Technology Park, Sydney.
RSVP by May 5 1997 with Ms Nelli Carrel at [log in to unmask], tel 61 2
9351 4576, or fax 61 2 9351 3855.
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Title and abstract
Contents
Introduction
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Title and abstract
P Droege. Ed. 1997. Intelligent Environments - Spatial Aspect of the
Information Revolution. North Holland. ISBN 0-444-82332-8. 742 pages. For
more information, please contact Paul Evans: [log in to unmask] - or see
the end of this message.
The environment - as modified and created by people - is largely organised
around the use of information, its generation and exchange. How do recent
innovations in the technologies of information management and communication
affect our use of space and place, and the way we perceive and think about
our surroundings?
Professionals and academics from a wide range of backgrounds report
findings, views and ideas. Together, they describe the architecture of a
postmodern paradigm: how swiftly mutating and proliferating technology
applications have begun to interact with the construction and reading of
space in architecture, economics, geography, history, planning, social
science, transport, visual art - but also in the newer domains that have
joined this spectrum through the very nature of their impacts: information
technology and telecommunications.
Peter Droege has tracked the role of new technologies in urban change over
two decades. He was the Grand Prix winner of Japan's 1987 "Advanced
Information City" concept design competition, and has worked with
international, national and regional institutions in Africa, Asia,
Australia, Europe and the United States.
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Contents
* Tomorrow's Metropolis: Virtualization Takes Command
by Peter Droege, Urban Design Program, Faculty of Architecture, University
of Sydney
* The New Centrality: The Impact of Telematics and Globalization
by Saskia Sassen, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and
Preservation, Columbia University, New York
* Glossy Globalization: Unpacking a Loaded Discourse
by Peter Marcuse, Division of Urban Planning, School of Architecture,
Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, New York
* IT 2000: Singapore's Vision of an Intelligent Island
by Chun Wei Choo, Faculty of Library and Information Science, University of
Toronto, Ontario
* Korea's Development Strategy for Information and Telecommunications in
the 21st Century
by Seungtaik Yang, Korea Electronics and Telecommunications Research
Institute (ETRI), Taedog Science Town, Taejeon
* New Information Technologies for Australia
by Marina Cavill, ConsulPan, Strategic Telecommunication Research, Urban
and Regional Development, Melbourne
* Knowledge-based Manufacturing and Regional Change: A Case Study of the
Scientific and Medical Equipment Industry in Australia
by Amanda Garnsworthy, Department of Geography and Environmental Science,
Monash University, Melbourne; and Kevin O'Connor, Department of Geography
and Environmental Science, Monash University, Melbourne
* Telecommunications Policy for Regional Development: Empirical Evidence in
Europe
by Robert Capello, Dipartimento di Economia e Produzione, Politecnico di
Milano, Milan; and Peter Nijkamp, Department of Regional Economics, Free
University, Amsterdam
* Telecommunications and Economic Growth: the Direction of Causality
by Donald Lamberton, Urban Research Program, Australian National
University, Canberra
* Marketspace: The New Locus of Value Creation
by by Jeffrey F. Rayport and John J Sviolka, Harvard Business School,
Cambridge, Massachusetts
* Reinventing Democracy
by William Dutton, Communication and Public Administration, University of
Southern California
* Telework: An Intelligent Managerial Initiative
by Jack Wood, Graduate School of Business, University of Sydney
* Telecommunications and the Urban Environment: Electronic and Physical Links
by Simon Marvin, Department of Town and Country Planning, University of
Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
* Telematics and Transport Policy:Making the Connection
by Stephen Potter, Energy and Environment Research Unit, The Open
University, Milton Keynes
* Open Service Platforms for the Information Society
by Rado Popescu-Zeletin, Research Institute for Open Communication Systems
(FOKUS) German National Center for Information Technology (GMD), Berlin;
and Thomas Magedanz, Department for Open Communication Systems, Technical
University of Berlin
* Environmental Information for Intelligent Decisions
by Tricia Kaye, Client and Program Services Section, Environment Resources
Information Network (ERIN), Canberra; Stewart Noble, Client and Program
Services Section, Environment Resources Information Network (ERIN),
Canberra; and Wayne Slater, Environment Resources Information Network
(ERIN), Canberra
* Intelligence about out Environment
by Harry Bruhns, Centre for Configurational Studies, Design Discipline,
Faculty of Technology, the Open University, Milton Keynes.
* Cities as Movement Economies
by Bill Hillier, The Bartlett Graduate School, University College, London
* Electronics, Dense Urban Populations and Community
by Perry King and Santiago Miranda, King-Miranda Associati, Milan
* Paradoxes and Parables of Intelligent Environments
by Alan Bowen-James, Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building,
University of Technology, Sydney
* Cognitive Cities: Intelligence, Environment and Space
by Marcos Novak, Advanced Design Research Program, School of Architecture,
University of Texas at Austin
* The Art of Virtual Reality
Michael Heim, virtual reality specialist, Los Angeles
* Hybrid Architectures and the Paradox of Unfolding
by Peter Lunenfeld, Graduate College, Art Center College Design, Los Angeles
* Structuring Virtual Urban Space: Arborescent Schemas
by Michael Ostwald, Department of Architecture, University of Newcastle,
Australia
* The Declining Significance of Traditional Borders (and the Appearance of
New Borders) in an Age of High Technology
by Gary T. Marx, Department of Sociology, University of Colorado at
Boulder, Colorado
* Language, Space and Information
by Richard Coyne, Department of Architecture, University of Edinburgh
* Labyrinths of the Mind and the City: Both Real and Virtual
by M Christine Boyer, School of Architecture, Princeton University, New Jersey
* Architecture Versus the New Media
Martin Pawley, World Architecture, London
* Recombinant Architecture
by William J Mitchell, School of Architecture and Planning, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
* Immutable Infrastructure or Dynamic Architectures?
by Ann Godfrey, Cambridge, Massachusetts
* Intelligent Building Enclosure as Energy and Information Mediator
by Ardeshir Mahdavi, Center for Building performance and Diagnostics,
Department of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh and Khee
Poh Lam, School of Architecture, National University of Singapore
* Computer City
by Ken Sakamura, Department of Information Science, Faculty of Science,
University of Tokyo
* Interactive Strategies in Virtual Architecture and Art
by Wolfgang Strauss, Monika Fleischmann and Christian-A Bohn, Department of
Visualization and Media Systems Design, German National Center for Computer
Science (GMD), Sankt Augustin, Germany.
* Hybrid Architectures: Media/Information Environments
by Bill Seaman, Department of Visual Arts, University of Maryland, Baltimore
* IntelliAn Environment for Electronic Manuscripts
by Bob Jansen, Division of Information Technology, Commonwealth Scientific
and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Macquarie University, Sydney;
and Daniel Ferrer, CNRS, Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes, Paris
* The Uncanny Home: Or Living Online with Others
by Scott McQuire, Art and Architecture, School of Social Inquiry, Deakin
University, Geelong, Australia
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Introduction
"Intelligent Environments" provides an international, exploratory forum for
the complex phenomenon of new information and communication technology as
it permeates and transforms our physical world, and our relation to it: the
architectural definition of our surroundings, geographical space, urban
form and immediate habitats. This book is a reader, an attempt at
registering disciplinary changes in context, at tracing subtexts for which
most mainstream disciplines have no established language. The project is to
give voice to an emerging meta-discipline that has its logic across the
specializations. While the thirty-six contributions of this volume have
been created by their authors independently of one another, the links
between the chapters contain the book's very meaning, and the table of
contents is structured to model a terrain of affinities.
This reader affords a sweeping gaze across the waves of ideas that ripple
through the disciplines: a welcome opportunity to probe across boundaries,
to relish the trespassing of domains once considered whole in their
isolation. Professional disciplines in particular - despite their
container-like categories - change shape and meaning under the influence of
a new conceptual fluidity facilitated by technological change.
The past two decades have nurtured a great deal of speculation about
interactions between technical innovations and human, particularly urban,
space. It has ranged from predictions of the end of well-defined and
centered cities to the rise of working cyberspaces constructed by fusing
the conventional media of telecommunications - voice, data and image
transmissions - and endowing them with intelligent attributes. Many of the
most central of these predictions have proven either fully valid or at
least not entirely erroneous. Yet it is not surprising that early prognoses
have suffered from over-simplifications or made exaggerated claims about
the agency of technological innovation in societal change. New technologies
do not usually cause but largely facilitate change: they have been key in
giving rise to important paradigm shifts in social discourse. They tend to
reinforce and amplify existing relations and differentials of power: the
instances of directly resulting political liberation or democratization
have so far been relatively isolated.
In this sense the new media are associated with a range of spatial
mutations: the internationalization of cities and the globalization of
their economies; media-supported political shifts and spatial consequences,
such as the fall of the Berlin Wall; global suburbanization; the rise of
telecommuting and its ambiguous impacts; technology-induced change in
organizational structures and their physical architectures; the
reinforcement of old and the rise of newly reconstituted urban centres,
made hyper-real in the paradox of "real virtuality", ie the unauthentic
affirmation of the physical; postmdern architectural styles and postmodern
geographies and the morphing of architectural design into virtual reality.
Again, the focus is on academic and professional specializations whose
efforts are concentrated on the physical environment. The contributions
speak of technology in space, both in a tangible, habitational sense - ie
environmental, urban or architectural space - but also in its transposed
and metaphorical meanings, in order to relate to the way in which physical
spatial metaphors function in the mediated environment, ie in virtual
reality, new visual art and computer-aided reading of literature.
The space navigated in "Intelligent Environments" is vast yet of the narrow
intermediate scale described in Carles and Ray Eames' "Powers of Ten", both
in physical terms and in its virtual and analoguous form. It ranges from
the space that immediately encompasses, or is simulated to encompass, the
human body - as in buildings and virtual tectonics - to that of towns and
regions. We stay clear of molecular-scale space, and of dimensions that are
larger than earth. There, other stories wait to be told about the unfluence
of the meaning on the message: the impact of new technology and its
paradigms on, say, genetics and conceptions of the universe.
PS
despite (or perhaps thanks to?) our new and instant communication and
publishing media, this effort has been more than five years in the making
... with editorial work being performed from locations on four continents
...
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