Sergio Amadeu da Silveira - Cidadania e Redes Digitais
Sergio Amadeu da Silveira - Cidadania e Redes Digitais
Sergio Amadeu da Silveira - Cidadania e Redes Digitais
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c i t i z e n s h i p a n d d i g i t a l n e t w o r k s<br />
between police headquarters and patrol cars in cities like Mateo, California 7 . Many<br />
models were established from these local actions characterized by a new intervention<br />
model in cities. These actions were sponsored by different governmental agencies,<br />
private companies and NGOs.<br />
Thus, cities obtain a new content from the new flows that intertwine themselves<br />
from virtual factor structuring concrete social networks, rethinking the relationship<br />
between these new technologies and the region. Unlike the common sense around<br />
the space annihilation by time, it seems that, as Castells argues, the material space<br />
arranges the time, “structuring the temporality over different and even contradictory<br />
perspectives according to sociospatial dynamics.” Therefore, it is thought that territory<br />
will arrange its time and temporality when incorporating these new information<br />
technologies.<br />
We must study the impact of these new technologies on territory structuring,<br />
considering the geographical space and as a reflex and a condition of social practices.<br />
The inherited space, the industrial city, and the designed space, the informational<br />
city, both interact. The new communication networks are assimilated into the infrastructure<br />
that is already arranged and built on the territory in the form of railways,<br />
roads, water and gas supply ducts, power distribution grids, telephony and television<br />
cables. This interaction is mediated through the movement of social forces that<br />
have power to restructure the territory. However, besides the interaction between<br />
the inherited and the designed spaces, which promotes the replacement and expansion<br />
of city functions, the digital city is the space designed for a real city.<br />
Likewise, the cyberspace discussion as the new social relationships representative<br />
in computers and communication networks is transformed and reterritorialized<br />
with Digital City. New information and communication technologies incorporation,<br />
designed on and shaped by the built environment, enables a new space configuration<br />
and new organization processes of urban space, distinct from the urban<br />
industrial structure purpose.<br />
The place where the informational city materializes itself also changes. In U.S.,<br />
the arising of the so-called informational cities was associated to weapons production<br />
and high technology, while in Europe, it was directed to research and development.<br />
With the digital cities’ expansion, the location of informational cities changes: they<br />
7. Ibidem, p. 4.<br />
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