Preface

Introduction

Donald A. Schon

Part I: Setting the Context

1. The Informational City Is a Dual City: Can It Be Reversed?

Manuel Castells

2. Changing Geographies: Technology and Income

Peter Hall

3. Center Cities as Havens and Traps for Low-Income Communities: The Potential Impact of Advanced Information Technology

Julian Wolpert

4. The City of Bits Hypothesis

William J. Mitchell

5. Information Technology in Historical Perspective

Leo Marx

Part II: Strategies of Action

The Question of Access

6. Equitable Access to the Online World

William J. Mitchell

Governance and Advanced Information Technology

7. Information Technologies that Change Relationships between Low-Income Communities and the Public, and Nonprofit Agencies that Serve Them

Joseph Ferreira, Jr.

8. Planning Support Systems for Low-Income Communities

Michael J. Shiffer

Entrepreneurial Potential

9. Software Entrepreneurship among the Urban Poor: Could Bill Gates Have Succeeded if He Were Black?...Or Impoverished?

Alice H. Amsden

Jon Collins Clark

The Educational Computer

10. Action Knowledge and Symbolic Knowledge: The Computer as Mediator

Jeanne Bamberger

The Community Computer

11. The Computer Clubhouse: Technological Fluency in the Inner City

Mitchel Resnick

Natalie Rusk

Stina Cooke

12. Computer as Community Memory: How People in Very Poor Neighborhoods Made a Computer Their Own

Bruno Tardieu

13. Social Empowerment through Community Networks

Alan Shaw

Michelle Shaw

14. Commodity and Community in Personal Computing

Sherry Turkle

15. Approaches to Community Computing: Bringing Technology to Low-Income Groups

Anne Beamish

Part III: Conclusions

16. Information Technology and Urban Poverty: The Role of Public Policy

Bish Sanyal

Donald A. Schon

Index