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Sharad Chari
visiting assistant professor,
anthropology and history
schari@umich.edu Will
Glover
assistant professor, architectural theory/history
wglover@umich.edu
Scott Campbell (organizer)
assistant
professor, urban and regional planning
sdcamp@umich.edu |
Graham, S. and Marvin,
S. (1999), "Planning Cyber-Cities?
Integrating Telecommunications into Urban Planning" (pdf), Town Planning
Review, January. (see other Centre for Urban Technology, University of Newcastle
publications.) Stephen
Goldsmith, 'The
coming digital polis' Peter
Hall, "Megacities, world
cities and global cities" Scott,
Allen J., John Agnew, Edward W. Soja, and Michael Storper. 1999. "Global
City-Regions." (Conference Theme Paper). Global City-Regions Conference,
UCLA. P.J. Taylor. "Worlds
of Large Cities: Pondering Castells' Space of Flows", GaWC
Research Bulletin 24 Harvey, David. "Possible
Urban Worlds", "Reinventing
Geography" (pdf) | atlas of cyberspace visual
representation of regions (from Urban Planning 523) Migration
and Upheaval in Africa international
migration Major drug routes
in Latin America World
Integration Processes megacities Chicago's
growth (1850 - 1990) see also:
UM
Spatial Analysis & Geographic Information Science Initiative Centre
for Advanced Spatial Analysis (UCL) ESRI
Map Book Gallery (GIS software applications) The
Association of American Geographers (AAG) CDC: Resources
for Creating Public Health Maps (extensive list of links) |
Thematic
Questions:
1. How do different disciplines
incorporate conceptions of space?
2. How do we understand the related concepts
of space, place, geography, territory, land, location, distance, proximity, community?
3. What are the different types of space (e.g., physical space, social space,
economic space, cognitive space)?
4. All social phenomena may occur in a spatial
context; but does that necessarily mean space is an important factor in shaping
all social phenomena?
5. Are certain social phenomena (e.g., crime, poverty,
infant mortality, cancer) clustered in specific locations because of the physical
space itself, or because these phenomena are correlated to other spatially-clustered
characteristics of the population (e.g., income, race/ethnicity, age)?
6.
What is the significance of spatial scale? Is there a global-local continuum?
7. What is the interface between cyberspace and physical space?
8. What
new tools help us visualize social and natural phenomena spatially (e.g., GIS,
3-D modeling, virtual reality CAVE, CAD).
9. What is the changing role of
the nation-state (and its boundaries) in an era of increased globalization?
10.
If we live in an era of time and space compression (where technology may be obliterating
physical distances), why then do industries cluster in Silicon Valley and other
regional-technological districts and banks agglomerate in global cities such as
New York, London and Tokyo?
11. How do nations attempt to selectively allow
certain goods, services, people, entities and artifacts (e.g., skilled labor,
tourists, legally purchased copy-written information, exports, legal capital)
to cross national boundaries while keeping others out (e.g., illegal drugs, illegal
immigrants, viruses, below-market-rate imports, illegally purchased copy-written
information, pornography, terrorism, invasive species, pollution)? |
