Information, Place, and Cyberspace

This book explores how new communication and information technologies combine with transportation to modify human spatial and temporal relationships in everyday life. It targets the need to differentiate accessibility levels among a broad range of social groupings, the need to study disparities in electronic accessibility, and the need to investigate new measures and means of representing the geography of opportunity in the information age. It explores how models based on physical notions of distance and connectivity are insufficient for understanding the new structures and behaviors that characterize current regional realities, with examples drawn from Europe, New Zealand, and North America. While traditional notions of accessibility and spatial interaction remain important, information technologies are dramatically modifying and expanding the scope of these core geographical concepts.

Foreword
Preface
Introduction

Chapter 1 : Information, Place, Cyberspace and Accessibility

Part I : Conceptualization and Measurement
Chapter 2 : Conceptualizing and Measuring Accessibility Within Physical and Virtual Spaces
Chapter 3 : Evaluating Intra-Chapter metropolitan Accessibility in the Information Age: Operational Issues, Objectives, and Implementation
Chapter 4 : Transportation, Telecommunications, and the Changing
Chapter 5 : Space, Time and Sequencing: Substitution at the Physical/Virtual Interface
Chapter 6 : The Fuzzy Logic of Accessibility
Chapter 7 : The E-merging Geography of the Information Society: From Accessibility to Adaptability

Part II : Visualization and Representation
Chapter 8 : Representing and Visualizing Physical, Virtual and Hybrid Information Spaces
Chapter 9 : Who's Up? Global Interpersonal Temporal Accessibility
Chapter 10 : The Role of the Real City in Cyberspace: Understanding Regional Variations in Internet Accessibility
Chapter 11 : Accessibility to Information within the Internet: How Can it Be Measured and Mapped?
Chapter 12 : Towards Spatial Interaction Models of Information Flows
Chapter 13 : Application of a CAD-Chapter Based Accessibility Model
Chapter 14 : Human Extensibility and Individual Hybrid-Chapter Accessibility in Space-time: A Multi-Scale Representation Using GIS

Part III : Societal Issues
Chapter 15 : Accessibility and Societal Issues in the Information Age
Chapter 16 : Reconceptualizing Accessibility
Chapter 17 : Revisiting the Concept of Accessibility: Some Comments and Research Questions
Chapter 18 : Legal Access to Geographic Information: Measuring Losses or Developing Responses
Chapter 19 : Qualitative GIS: To Mediate, Not Dominate

Part IV : Conclusion
Chapter 20 : From Sustainable Transportation to Sustainable Accessibility: Can We Avoid a New Tragedy of the Commons?

Figures
Tables
Author Index
Subject Index
Contributors