Digital Cities: The Internet and the Geography of Opportunity

by Karen Mossberger

Book Overview

In an age when the United Nations has declared access to the Internet a human right, and universal access to high-speed broadband is a national goal, urban areas have been largely ignored by federal policy. The cost of that neglect may well be the failure to realize the social benefits of broadband and a broadly-connected digital society.

Technology offers unparalleled advantages for innovation in urban areas - in the economy, health care,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199812950
• ISBN13: 9780199812950
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"