Broschiertes Buch

Information Technology: Social and Spatial Perspectives

Proceedings of an International Conference on Information Technology and its Impact on the Urban-Environmental System Held at the Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi, Japan, November 1986

Herausgegeben: Orishimo, Isao; Hewings, Geoffrey J.D.; Nijkamp, Peter

Beschreibung

The book contains perspectives on the way new informationtechnology might reorient the spatial organization ofactivity. The perspectives range from conceptual, high-lighting the role of research and development to casestudies from Japan. Considerable debate is focused on therole of distance and the way in which new informationtechnology might re-shape interaction and, eventually, theform and function of urban areas.

Autor

Peter Nijkamp is Professor in Regional and Urban Economics and in Economic Geography at the VU University, Amsterdam. His main research interests cover quantitative plan evaluation, regional and urban modelling, multicriteria analysis, transport systems analysis, mathematical systems modelling, technological innovation, entrepreneurship, environmental and resource management, and sustainable development. In the past years he has focussed his research in particular on new quantitative methods for policy analysis, as well as on spatial-behavioural analysis of economic agents. He has a broad expertise in the area of public policy, services planning, infrastructure management and environmental protection. In all these fields he has published many books and numerous articles.
In 1996, he was awarded the most prestigious scientific prize in the Netherlands, the Spinoza award.

Produktdetails

• Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems 315
• Verlag: Springer / Springer Berlin Heidelberg / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-540-50158-9
• 1988.
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 1988
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 452g
• ISBN-13: 9783540501589
• ISBN-10: 3540501584
• Artikelnr.: 24622977