Intelligent Environments: Spatial Aspects of the Information Revolution

P. Droege

Elsevier, Mar 20, 1997 - Computers - 727 pages

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.

Contents

• Chapter 1 Tomorrows Metropolis Virtualization Takes Command: 1
• The Impact of Telematics and Globalization: 19
• Unpacking a Loaded Discourse: 29
• Chapter 4 IT 2000 Singapores Vision of an Intelligent Island: 49
• Chapter 5 Koreas Development Strategy for Information and Telecommunications in the 21st Century: 67
• Chapter 6 New Information Technologies for Australia: 77
• A Case Study of the Scientific and Medical Equipment Industry in Australia: 87
• Empirical Evidence in Europe: 99
• The Direction of Causality: 123
• Chapter 9 Marketspace The New Locus of Value Creation: 140
• Chapter 10 Reinventing Democracy: 152
• An Intelligent Managerial Initiative: 161
• Electronic and Physical Links: 179
• Making the Connection: 199
• Chapter 14 Open Service Platforms for the Information Society: 214
• Chapter 15 Environmental Information for Intelligent Decisions: 245
• Chapter 16 Intelligence About Our Environment: 260
• Chapter 17 Cities as Movement Economies: 295
• Chapter 18 Electronics Dense Urban Populations and Community: 345
• Chapter 19 Paradoxes and Parables of Intelligent Environments: 354
• Intelligence Environment and Space: 386
• Chapter 21 The Art of Virtual Reality: 421
• Chapter 22 Hybrid Architectures and the Paradox of Unfolding: 439
• Arborescent Schemas: 451
• Chapter 24 The Declining Significance of Traditional Borders and the Appearance of New Borders in an Age of High Technology: 484
• Chapter 25 Language Space and Information: 495
• Both Real and Virtual: 518
• Chapter 27 Architecture Versus the New Media: 539
• Chapter 28 Recombinant Architecture: 551
• Chapter 29 Immutable Infrastructure or Dynamic Architectures?: 584
• Chapter 30 Intelligent Building Enclosure as Energy and Information Mediator: 599
• Chapter 31 Computer City: 624
• Chapter 32 Interactive Strategies in Virtual Architecture and Art: 632
• Chapter 33 Hybrid Architectures MediaInformation Environments: 642
• An Environment for Electronic Manuscripts: 663
• Or Living Online with Others: 682
• About the Authors: 711
• About the Editor: 726
• Credits: 727

Popular passages

Page 22 - This account privileges the capability for global transmission over the concentrations of built infrastructure that make transmission possible; information outputs over the workers producing those outputs, from specialists to secretaries; and the new transnational corporate culture over the multiplicity of cultural environments, including reterritorialized immigrant cultures, within which many of the 'other' jobs of the global information economy take place.

About the author

Professor Droege directs the Liechtenstein Institute for Strategic Development, and is President, Eurosolar and General Chairman, World Council for Renewable Energy. He initiated the Chair for Sustainable Spatial Development at the University of Liechtenstein while holding a Conjoint Professorship at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Newcastle, Australia. An inaugural member of the Zayed Future Energy Prize jury and Expert Commissioner at the World Future Council he served on the Steering Committee of the Urban Climate Change Research Network at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies and CUNY. He taught and researched at MIT, held an Endowed Chair in Urban Engineering at at Tokyo University’s Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, and Chair of Urban Design at Sydney University. He has authored/edited eight books.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Intelligent Environments: Spatial Aspects of the Information Revolution
• Editor: P. Droege
• Publisher: Elsevier, 1997
• ISBN: 0080534848, 9780080534848
• Length: 727 pages
• Subjects: Computers / Artificial Intelligence / General; Computers / General