New technologies opposing urban sustainability
In the last two decades or so, a series of new technological developments has strongly affected everyday life of individuals in developed regions of the global: First, new developments in ICT's, multimedia and telecommunications provide excessive information to individuals generating a growing flow of events in time, or a kind of 'acceleration of history', and giving rise to information societies.
This paper is concerned with the impacts of new technologies on urban sustainability. First, it briefly presents those new technological developments affecting urban life of individuals. Then, it focuses on new spatial phenomena which are encouraged by new technologies and opposing urban sustainability: (a) urban sprawl, exurban new centralities and the 'dispersed city', and (b) the sociodemographic restructuring and diminishing of inner city areas. It finally discusses green architecture and energy-save buildings which are nowadays feasible by new technological developments, and in this sense, they may moderate the negative impacts of new technologies on cities.
Autor(en)
A. Gospodini
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© Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Publikation
2nd International Conference - 2009 (Juni 2009)
Verkaufspreis
im BASIC-Abonnement enthalten