Local and Global: The Management of Cities in the Information Age, 1st Edition

This text challenges the belief that cities will eventually disappear as territorial forms of social organization as new information technologies permit the articulation of social processes without regard for distance, arguing that the specific role of cities will become more important, and proposing that a dynamic and creative relationship be built up between the local and the global. In this way, cities will remain the focus of social organization, political management and cultural expression, equipped to deal with the enormous social and environmental problems of urbanization.Local and Global: The Management of Cities in the Information Age 1st Edition is written by Jordi Borja; Manuel Castells and published by Routledge. ISBNs for Local and Global are 9781134180134, 1134180136 and the print ISBNs are 9781138158214, 1138158216. Additional ISBNs include 9781853834417, 9788430602698, 9781315071008, 9781134180066, 9781299996236, 9781134180202.