Abstract. We have developed a digital city for Kyoto, the old capital and cultural center of Japan, as a social information infrastructure for urban everyday life including shoppin...
This paper proposes the concept of digital cities as a social information infrastructure for urban life (including shopping, business, transportation, education, welfare and so on)...
The paper outlines results of feasibility experiments with new functions for a local version of the digital city, performed under a collective name 'Engineering City Oulu'...
As a platform for community networks, information spaces using the city metaphor are being developed in worldwide. This paper comparesthe trials of digital cities. Four digital cit...
As a platform for community networks, public information spaces that mirror the city metaphor are being developed around the world. The aim of digital cities is to pursue a future ...
Much thinking about digital cities is in terms of community groups. Yet, the world is composed of social networks and not of groups. This paper traces how communities have changed ...
This study attempts to find a theoretical basis for the development of digital cities. The ultimate function of a digital city is to support navigation in an environment. Navigatio...
Victor V. Kryssanov, Masayuki Okabe, Koh Kakusho, ...
This paper reviews worldwide activities on regional information spaces. In the US and Canada, a large number of community networks appeared in the early 1990s. As a platform for co...
Conviviality is a mechanism to reinforce social cohesion and a tool to reduce mis-coordination between individuals, groups and institutions in web communities, for example in digit...