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Use and Valuation: Information in the City

Nuffield College, Oxford, OX1 INF, UK, kenneth.macdonald{at}nuf.oxac.uk

The aim of the paper is to raise some issues regarding the proper role of management and information in the political spaces of the virtual urban world. The spatial density of successful economic exploitation of the virtual economy suggests that anchoring in ways of life, modes of behaving, 'competencies', may matter. Discussion of historical public space indicates the importance of structured information for participants, as does reflection on the usage of information. The overall narrative suggests that for the successful development of an information-rich urban polity we need more than 'smart' buildings or provision of Internet access. We need co-ordination between the spatially anchored decision-making structures and the possibilities of cyber-space. Consideration of recent advances in evolutionary psychology supports this claim.

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