By Manuel Castells
This primary ebook in Castells' groundbreaking trilogy, with a considerable new preface, highlights the commercial and social dynamics of the knowledge age and exhibits how the community society has now absolutely risen on an international scale.
- Groundbreaking quantity at the influence of the age of knowledge on all facets of society
- Includes assurance of the effect of the web and the net-economy
- Describes the accelerating speed of innovation and social transformation
- Based on learn within the united states, Asia, Latin the United States, and Europe
Read Online or Download The Rise of the Network Society: The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture Volume I (Information Age Series) PDF
Best human geography books
Encountering Affect: Capacities, Apparatuses, Conditions
Because the mid-1990s, impact has develop into critical to the social sciences and arts. Debates abound over how one can conceptualise have an effect on, and the way to appreciate the interrelationships among affective existence and a number of modern political adjustments. In Encountering have an effect on, Ben Anderson explores why figuring out impact issues and provides one account of affective existence that hones within the alternative ways during which impacts are ordered.
Water Worlds: Human Geographies of the Ocean
Our global is a water global. Seventy percentage of our planet involves ocean. besides the fact that, geography has commonly neglected this important element of the earth's composition. The notice 'geography' without delay interprets as 'earth writing' and in response to this definition, the self-discipline has preoccupied itself with the learn of terrestrial areas of society and nature.
Seeking refuge : birds and landscapes of the Pacific flyway
Every one fall and spring, hundreds of thousands of birds commute the Pacific Flyway, the westernmost of the 4 significant North American fowl migration routes. The landscapes they move fluctuate from wetlands to farmland to concrete, inhabited not just by means of flora and fauna but additionally by way of farmers, suburban households, and significant towns. within the 20th century, farmers used the wetlands to irrigate their vegetation, reworking the panorama and placing migratory birds in danger.
- Tourism and Change in Polar Regions: Climate, Environments and Experiences (Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility)
- Meeting place : the human encounter and the challenge of coexistence
- Ways of Walking
- Culture and Context in World Politics
- Heirs to World Culture: Being Indonesian, 1950-1965
- The Dictionary of Human Geography
Extra resources for The Rise of the Network Society: The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture Volume I (Information Age Series)
Sample text
The aim of this chapter is to show some of the dramatic advances which have occurred in this aspect of geographical theory in recent years, and to demonstrate how these advances rest on the development of mathematical modelling as a method in geography. Although there are some obvious difficulties in expounding these ideas in a brief essay, the main concepts can be communicated with a minimum of mathematics and the results of applying them can be clearly demonstrated. 29 30 Mathematical Models and Geographical Theory One useful way to proceed is to relate the new to the old: to show how the theory which is based on mathematical modelling provides a powerful substitute for what is traditionally thought of and taught as geographical theory - what might be called 'classical' theory which still figures, relatively uncritically, in most texts.
Whilst in many senses this is a conceptual advance, it does have technical counterparts which allow IT to play an increasingly important 'multitemporal' role (though in the field of remote sensing the term 'multidate' might be preferred). If we return to the example of satellite image processing, then it is possible to demonstrate completely new descriptive and explanatory dimensions developing when images are created which depict change rather than state. Thus it is possible to combine winter and summer images better to classify areas with a seasonal variation in land use or vegetation.
What is important is that this model can be used to predict the values of a locational variable from the postulated interaction variables: (Equation 4) In the retailing example, for instance, if OJ is the amount of money being spent in a period by residents of zone i, then D j is the set of total revenues attracted to each zone j given the floorspaces, Wj. Thus Equations 1, 2 and 4 constitute not only an interaction model, but also a locational model. Application of spatial interaction concepts An interaction model of some appropriate type is important for each of our examples.