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METAPHORS OF THE CITY IN THE INFORMATION AGE

1.1. A Disappearance of the City? The technological revolution is characterized by improvements in transportation and communication systems that reduce the limitations of space. As a result, the social and economic activities that are the defining features of an urban society are no longer restricted to the physical boundaries of the city itself at least theoretically. It seems reasonable to propose that this death of distance (Hall, 1999) might imply a collapse of the notion of a city altogether; at least in the traditional sense, as a physically centralized, densely populated area of human habitation.