Synergizing Socio-Technological Innovations in Risk Society? ││Contradictions of Urban Utopia in the Information Age││
Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: The century-old dynamism of urbanization has never been abating!Thanks to new technologies and globalization forces for the last two decades, hyper-modernization driven urbanism has been transforming socio-spatial landscape and life chances of global human society; creating new sociospatial relationships which are revolutionary.This brief paper critically examines the emerging trends of global (dualistic) urbanism-the phenomenal World City and Global City, toward the building of urban utopia in 21 st century; juxtaposing the calling for sustainable development in risk society.
Author: On‐Kwok Lai
Language: English
Subfield: Urban Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: University of Hong Kong
OpenAlex ID: W2141872049