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As Anna Croon Fors and Mikael Wilberg (2010, this issue) remind us, we are used to think of―Information and Communication Technologies‖(ICT) and the―City‖ as two distinct units of analysis. But how can we explain the impact of ICTs of our ways of living in and with the city, if the City never was about information?

To say that information is immaterial is to assume that information has no specific place in the city and takes no physical space. Yet, we should acknowledge that even if we assume that information is immaterial,―it never exits without a material support. Information may be transferred from one material support to another, but cannot be dematerialized….‖(Wark 2004, 127) The City is the place, where the material support of information (eg, books and other things made of paper) can be found and where people can meet each other and exchange information. In the City there are places, where information can be found, and the City provides spaces, where the exchange of information takes place.