URST 400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Henri Lefebvre
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Credentials: user: ewyly001 password: alexandria (same pass for scratch pad) Conurbation: massive city regions that evolved from traditional cities (a higher population, considered a challenge) Informational city: replacing physical interaction with computer technologies. Alan scott --> industrial geographer (specifically microchip and how it affected labor requirements), also written on cognitive cultural capitalism (when capitalism expands by new forces of technological production) The human attention span becomes a globally traded commodity (i. e. as measured by facebook) Could also be looked through a marxist lens. When general social knowledge has become a direct force of production. Urban being described as the general condition of the planet (more philosophical than a physical space) Moore"s law: describes geometric acceleration becoming twice as fast for hardware information (thus making processing speeds a lot faster)
