TY - GEN
T1 - Understanding digital cities
AU - Ishida, Toru
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2000.
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - As a platform for community networks, information spaces using the city metaphor are being developed in worldwide. This paper compares the trials of digital cities. Four digital cities, those of America Online, Amsterdam, Helsinki and Kyoto, are introduced. It is interesting to note that each digital city has a different goal: to explore a vertical market, a public communication space, a next generation metropolitan network, and a social information infrastructure for the 21st century, respectively. Their different services, system architectures, and organizations result from the different goals. Digital cities will change together with the advance of computer and network technologies. No digital city can remain at its current status. This paper reviews those digital cities to have a better understanding of their current status and future.
AB - As a platform for community networks, information spaces using the city metaphor are being developed in worldwide. This paper compares the trials of digital cities. Four digital cities, those of America Online, Amsterdam, Helsinki and Kyoto, are introduced. It is interesting to note that each digital city has a different goal: to explore a vertical market, a public communication space, a next generation metropolitan network, and a social information infrastructure for the 21st century, respectively. Their different services, system architectures, and organizations result from the different goals. Digital cities will change together with the advance of computer and network technologies. No digital city can remain at its current status. This paper reviews those digital cities to have a better understanding of their current status and future.
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U2 - 10.1007/3-540-46422-0_2
DO - 10.1007/3-540-46422-0_2
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33646857801
SN - 9783540672654
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 7
EP - 17
BT - Digital Cities - Technologies, Experiences, and Future Perspectives
A2 - Ishida, Toru
A2 - Isbister, Katherine
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 1st Kyoto Workshop on Digital Cities, 1999
Y2 - 1 September 1999 through 1 September 1999
ER -