Manuel Castells

In a series of conversations Manuel Castells, one of the world′s best known social scientists, explains and expands his work. Meer

Technopoles - planned centres for the promotion for high- technology industry - have become a key feature of national economic development worldwide. Meer

This text challenges the belief that cities will eventually disappear as territorial forms of social organization as new information technologies permit the articulation of social processes without regard for distance, arguing that the specific role of cities will become more important, and proposing that a dynamic and creative relationship be built up between the local and the global. Meer

Manuel Castells entwirft in seinem dreibändigen Werk eine Soziologie des Informationszeitalters. Auf der Grundlage reichhaltigen empirischen Materials zeichnet er nach, analysiert und interpretiert die Entwicklung unserer Welt von der Industriegesellschaft zur Informationsgesellschaft. Meer