"Technocities explores the issues involved in urban planning in relation to computer-mediated communications and cyberspace, including urban planning, virtual and actual cities, and gender and the Internet. Running throughout is a tension between optimistic and pessimistic scenari's for the technocity. The contributors address a complex set of questions, and move beyond the usual images of technological heaven and hell, and technophilia and technophobia, to bring together a number of differently informed approaches, to make sense of a field of dynamic and contradictory forces." "Technocities will be essential reading for upper-level undergraduates and postgraduates in media, cultural and communication studies; geography and urban planning; and sociology."--BOOK JACKET.