Collapsing space and time : geographic aspects of communications and information

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Collapsing space and time : geographic aspects of communications and information

edited by Stanley D. Brunn, Thomas R. Leinbach

Harper Collins Academic, 1991

  • : pbk

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Collapsing space and time : geographic aspects of communication and information

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

This specially commissioned volume offers a comprehensive treatment of the geography of communication and information. Contributions from leading international scholars examine every aspect of the subject, from the emergence of the "electronic cottage" to the processes of internationalization and the prospects of increasing global interdependence.

Table of Contents

  • Geography and communications: "global interdependence and its consequences:, Donald G.Janelle. Telecommunications, services and economic restructuring: "information technology and the global restructuring of capital markets", Mark Hepworth. Communications, technology and regional development: "the role of information technology in the planning and development of Singapore", Kenneth E.Corey
  • "telecommunications in the Pacific region - the peacesat experiment", Nancy Davis Lewis and Lori Van Dusen Mukaida
  • "information and urban growth in the periphery of the global village - New Zealand and the international information economy", Pip Forer and Nigel Parrott
  • "communications and information flows in the commonwealth Caribbean - a force for integration?", Anne Lyew-Ayee.

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