Today, our cities are an embodiment of the complex, historical evolution of knowledge,
desires and technology. Our planned and designed activities co-evolve with our aspirations …

In this edition, the text has been largely rewritten, with three primary objectives: to update
and take account of recent theory and reearch; enlargement, to reflect the continuing …

The main purpose of Media Performance is to “set out and examine the record of a
particular, though very broad, tradition of enquiry into the working of the mass media in their …

This book is about the role that the media and other forms of communication can play in
improving the conditions of life for the world's poorest people. The scale and depth of world …

If geography is the study of how human beings are stretched over the earth's surface, a vital
part of that process is how we know and feel about space and time. Although space and time …

The emergence of a few powerful individuals in control of large sections of mass
communication industries has coincided with world-wide media de-regulation. In the first …

An examination of television as a center of meaning and as a social context supports the
concept of a place without a location. Similar ideas have appeared in media theory since the …

The need for a conceptually high‐level, unifying representational scheme for geographic
phenomena was recognized long ago. A number of attempts to address this issue have …

The modern world is complex beyond human understanding and control. The science of
complex systems aims to find new ways of thinking about the many interconnected networks …

Telecommunications do not simply rearrange information and ideas in space, they also alter
the balance of power in social struggles. Although it supports centralization of power and …