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Stephen Graham
Stephen
Graham has degrees in geography, planning and science, technology and society.
In May 2004, he became Professor of Human Geography at Durham University in
the UK. Before this he worked at Newcastle University’s School of Architecture,
Planning and Landscape for 12 years. Between 1999-2000 he was a Visiting Professor
at MIT.
His research interests centre on the links between cities, terrorism and warfare ; ‘socio-technical’ theories of space, society, and mobility ; urban and social theory ; telecommunications and information technologies and cities ; urban infrastructural and mobility change ; and urban surveillance. His books include Telecommunications and the City: Electronic Spaces, Urban Places (1996) and Splintering Urbanism (2001), both published through Routledge with Simon Marvin, and the Cybercities Reader (Routledge, 2003). His latest book, Cities, War and Terrorism, for Blackwell, is due out in September 2004. He is on the editorial boards of Cultural Politics, Surveillance and Society, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, and the Journal of Urban Technology.
speech
At the Creative Capital conference, Stephen Graham wil speak about Remediating Cities: the changing city and public digital domain.
The so-called 'information society' is an increasingly urban society. The 'digital age' is an age which is dominated by cities and metropolitan regions to an extent that is unprecedented in human history. Cities are changing as global urbanization trends interact with he intensifying use of computers, internet, telephones and digital media in social, economic and cultural life. In this new world of 'cybercities' the notions of urban change, creative innovation and networks have to be re-cast. The changing infrastructures in networked cities call for new strategies for urban planning and innovation, both in the physical world and in the design of the public digital domain.
