Intelligent Environments

Spatial Aspects of the Information Revolution

P. Droege

• Publisher: North Holland
• Year: 1997
• Topic: Computer Science
• eBook ISBN:
  9780080534848
• Subtopic: Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Semantics
• Index: Computer Science

The environment, as modified and created by people, is largely about 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?This volume 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 surrounding, 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.A wide range of professionals and academics report findings, views and ideas. Together, they describe the architecture of a postmodern paradigm: how swiftly mutating the proliferating technology applications have begun to interact with the construction and reading of physical space in architecture, economics, geography, history, planning, social sciences, 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.The space navigated in this volume is vast, both in physical terms and in its virtual and analogous 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.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Intelligent Environments: Spatial Aspects of the Information Revolution
• Copyright Page
• Introduction
• Contributors
• A Pilot for a Journal
• Contents
• Chapter 1. Tomorrow's Metropolis– Virtualization Takes Command
• Chapter 2. The New Centrality: The Impact of Telematics and Globalization
• Chapter 3. Glossy Globalization: Unpacking a Loaded Discourse
• Chapter 4. IT 2000. Singapore's Vision of an Intelligent Island
• Chapter 5. Korea's Development Strategy for Information and Telecommunications in the 21st Century
• Chapter 6. New Information Technologies for Australia
• Chapter 6. Knowledge-Based Manufacturing and Regional Change: A Case Study of the Scientific and Medical Equipment Industry in Australia
• Chapter 7. Telecommunications Policy for Regional Development: Empirical Evidence in Europe
• Chapter 8. Telecommunications and Economic Growth: The Direction of Causality
• Chapter 9. Marketspace. The New Locus of Value Creation
• Chapter 10. Reinventing Democracy
• Chapter 11. Telework: An Intelligent Managerial Initiative
• Chapter 12. Telecommunications and the Urban Environment: Electronic and Physical Links
• Chapter 13. Telematics and Transport Policy: Making the Connection
• Chapter 14. Open Service Platforms for the Information Society
• Chapter 15. Environmental Information for Intelligent Decisions
• Chapter 16. Intelligence About Our Environment
• Chapter 17. Cities as Movement Economies
• Chapter 18. Electronics, Dense Urban Populations and Community
• Chapter 19. Paradoxes and Parables of Intelligent Environments
• Chapter 20. Cognitive Cities: Intelligence, Environment and Space
• Chapter 21. The Art of Virtual Reality
• Chapter 22. Hybrid Architectures and the Paradox of Unfolding
• Chapter 23. Structuring Virtual Urban Space: Arborescent Schemas
• Chapter 24. The Declining Significance of Traditional Borders (and the Appearance of New Borders) in an Age of High Technology
• Chapter 25. Language, Space and Information
• Chapter 26. Labyrinths of the Mind and the City1: Both Real and Virtual
• Chapter 27. Architecture Versus the New Media
• Chapter 28. Recombinant Architecture
• Chapter 29. Immutable Infrastructure or Dynamic Architectures?
• Chapter 30. Intelligent Building Enclosure as Energy and Information Mediator
• Chapter 31. Computer City
• Chapter 32. Interactive Strategies in Virtual Architecture and Art
• Chapter 33. Hybrid Architectures. Media/Information Environments
• Chapter 34. IntelliText: An Environment for Electronic Manuscripts
• Chapter 35. The Uncanny Home: Or Living Online with Others
• About the Authors
• About the Editor
• Credits