Information City Chinese Translation Collection of Popular Fine Works New Century Edition

Author: Manuel Castells
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Publish Date: 2001-09-01
Features: Manuel Castells is an internationally renowned sociologist and thinker, serving as a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, since 1979. The Information City is one of Castells' major works. First published as a hardcover edition in 1989, it sparked significant attention. In 1991, it was revised into a paperback edition, followed by six reprints from 1992 to June 1999. Castells' research on the development models of informatization and the networked society is widely recognized as representing the newest achievements in contemporary information society theory. The book has become a must-read for understanding and studying the information economy and its influence, and Castells himself is hailed as the "Bell of the 1990s."