Keith N Hampton

Stephen Graham”s (Newcastle University”s School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape) new book The Cybercities Reader was released late last week. I have been waiting for this contribution to hit the book shelves for some time, not just because I wrote one of the 25 chapters, but because this is one of the first collections of mostly empirical work related to the study of how ICTs impact urban life and form. The list of contributors is very impressive and too long to list in entirety here, but includes: Philip Agre, Anne Beamish, Manuel Castells, Martin Dodge, Mark Gottdeiner, David Holmes, David Lyon, William Mitchell, Harvey Molotch, Saskia Sassen, and Nina Wakeford. My contribution is a short summary of the Netville findings. Stephen’s other two books are among my favorites: Telecommunications and the City: Electronic Spaces, Urban Places, Splintering Urbanism: Networked Infrastructures, Technological Mobilities and the Urban Condition