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Title

Telecommunications and spatial restructuring : an Australian perspective

Author(s)

Newton, Peter W.

Abstract

Changes over the past twenty-five years in information and communication technology (ICT) are beginning to provide us with a clearer picture of the technical platform that will influence the shape of urban and industrial development into the 21st century. During this period we have experienced a number of key paradigm shifts in computing: from 1960s batch systems to 1970s time sharing systems to 1980s desktop systems (Newton et al. 1988). At the same time, but somewhat independently, communications were evolving from the slow speed analogue public switched telephone network which provided a measure of computer-to-computer interaction (via modems) to the newly emerging high speed broadband digital networks, networks which will provide a truly vast array of value added products and services. The dramatic price-performance improvements in these technologies and the synergy which now exists between computers and communications provides us in the 1990s with the core information infrastructure of the future: computers and the netowrks that interconnect them (Newton et a. 1991). [Introduction]

Publication type

Journal article

Source

Urban Policy and Research, Vol. 9, no. 4 (Dec 1991), p. 227-229

Publication year

1991

Keyword(s)

Australia;  Computer networks;  Globalisation;  Industrial development;  Information and communications technology;  Urban hierarchy;  Urban development

Publisher

Routledge

ISSN

0811-1146

Peer reviewed