Digital Cities II: Computational and Sociological Approaches Second Kyoto Workshop on Digital Cities, Kyoto, Japan, October 18-20, 2001. Revised Papers

This book presents revised full papers contributed to the Second Kyoto Workshop on Digital Cities, held in Kyoto, Japan, in October 2001.The 29 thoroughly reviewed papers presented together with an introduction are organized in topcial sections on- concepts and theory- politics of the digitial city movement- examples of digital cities- evaluations- architectures for digital cities- technologies for digital cities

Introduction: Digital Cities Research and Open Issues.- Introduction: Digital Cities Research and Open Issues.- Concepts and Theory.- Little Boxes, Glocalization, and Networked Individualism.- Privacy, Predictability or Serendipity and Digital Cities.- Regularities in the Formation and Evolution of Information Cities.- Communication of Social Agents and the Digital City — A Semiotic Perspective.- Politics of the Digital City Movement.- Digital Cities and Digital Citizens.- Designing Democratic Community Networks: Involving Communities through Civil Participation.- TeleCities — Digital Cities Network.- Urbana-Champaign.- The Camfield Estates-MIT Creating Community Connections Project: Strategies for Active Participation in a Low- to Moderate-Income Community.- Community Websites as a Local Communication Network: “Directory Westfield”, an Experience Report.- Ennis Information Age Town: Virtuality Rooted in Reality.- Feasibility Study of Digital Community through Virtual Enterprise Network.- Knowledge-Based Economic Services Supported by Digital Experiments.- Evaluations.- Community Network Development: A Dialectical View.- The Complexity of Using Commercial Forces to Counteract the Digital Divide: A Case Study of the TUC of Sweden.- Lessons Learned: Social Interaction in Virtual Environments.- Worlds Apart: Exclusion-Processes in DDS.- Log Analysis of Map-Based Web Page Search on Digital City Kyoto.- Architectures for Digital Cities.- Connecting Digital and Physical Cities.- Twin Worlds: Augmenting, Evaluating, and Studying Three-Dimensional Digital Cities and Their Evolving Communities.- Creating City Community Consanguinity: Use of Public Opinion Channel in Digital Cities.- Agent-Based Coordination of Regional Information Services.- Realization of Digital Environmental Education — A Future Style of Environmental Education in Dynamically Changing Virtual Environment —.- Technologies for Digital Cities.- A 3-D Photo Collage System for Spatial Navigations.- Study on Mobile Passenger Support Systems for Public Transportation Using Multi-channel Data Dissemination.- Spatial Information Sharing for Mobile Phones.- Agents in the World of Active Web-Services.- Town Digitizing for Building an Image-Based Cyber Space.- Language Design for Rescue Agents.- Urban Pilot A Handheld City Guide That Maps Personal and Collective Experiences through Social Networks.