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Analysis of Urban Change, Theory, Action
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Urbanising cyberspace?

The nature and potential of the virtual cities movement

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Pages 18-39 | Published online: 12 Mar 2007
 

Abstract

There are currently over 2000 virtual cities and urban web pages. Is it possible for local virtual cities to work against, rather than simply replicate, the systematic social and spatial bias of the Internet as a whole? To achieve this, the authors argue, is the greatest policy challenge, given the dominance of private, profit‐seeking capital within the telematics industry, and wider trends towards social and spatial polarisation in cities.

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