Invisible City (New Forms of 21st Century Cities Series)

Author: Zhou Yi, Tang Qiangcao
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Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features: The study of the invisible city internationally primarily adopts three different perspectives: architecture, information, and sociology. The research in this book mainly focuses on the information and sociology perspectives. The book specifically discusses the concrete impacts of the invisible city on the construction of social industrial structure, employment structure, production model, population structure, consumption structure, and enterprise organizational structure. The authors argue that the establishment of the invisible city relies on the improvement of the network environment and depends on the synchronous planning and integration of tangible and invisible cities from political, economic, and cultural perspectives. Therefore, based on the analysis of the socio-political, economic, and cultural management characteristics of the invisible city government, the book conducts a specific study on strategies for developing the invisible city from an interdisciplinary integration perspective. The relevant materials and viewpoints provided in this book can serve as references for sociological, information science, and architectural research, as well as decision-making bases for urban planning and urban management.