Title: Technology and the city.

POPLINE Document Number: 128054

Author(s):

Bugliarello G

Source citation:

In: Mega-city growth and the future, edited by Roland J. Fuchs, Ellen Brennan, Joseph Chamie, Fu-chen Lo, and Juha I. Uitto. Tokyo, Japan, United Nations University Press, 1994. :131-46.

Abstract:

The current status of modern cities as highly concentrated centers of services has been made possible by technology. While the potential ability of cities to have direct access to any other city or region in the world through transportation and telecommunications technology gives modern cities unprecedented social and economic power, that power is also changing urban population dynamics. Technology advances are having an ever-increasing impact upon almost all facets of the city. As such, every major city needs a technology policy to guide the most important aspects of its socio-technological interactions. The most important aspect of such policy should be the reshaping of the structure and organization of the city commensurate with its new functions and needs. Urban social problems, technology and the city in the future, redefining the megacity, demography and technology, the city as an ecological device, and technology policies for the city are considered.

Keywords:

Global
Urbanization
Urban Population
Technology
Needs
Social Policy
Organization and Administration
Urban Population Distribution
Population Distribution
Geographic Factors
Population
Population Characteristics
Demographic Factors
Economic Factors
Policy