Digital Cities

On the way towards the Information Society, global networks such as the Internet, together with mobile computing, have made wide-area computing over virtual communities a reality. Digital city projects, with the goal of building platforms to support community networking, are going on worldwide. This is the first book devoted to digital cities. It is based on an international symposium held in Kyoto, Japan, in September 1999. The 34 revised full papers presented were carefully selected for inclusion in the book; they reflect the state of the art in this exciting new field of interdisciplinary research and development. The book is divided into parts on design and analysis, digital city experiments, community network experiments, applications, visualization technologies, mobile technologies, and social interaction and communityware.

• DESIGN AND ANALYSIS PERSPECTIVES Designing the Digital City 1 William J. Mitchell Understanding Digital Cities 7 Toru Ishida Digital Cities: Organization, Content, and Use 18 Peter van den Besselaar Isabel Melis Dennis Beckers Digital City or Urban Simulator? 33 Alessandro Aurigi Next Generation Community Networking: Futures 45 for Digital Cities Artur Serra
• DIGITAL CITY EXPERIMENTS Experiences of European Digital Cities 58 Eric Mino The Information Society in the City of Antwerp 73 Bruno Peeters Helsinki Arena 2000 - Augmenting a Real City 83 to a Virtual One Risto Linturi Marja-Riitta Koivunen Jari Sulkanen The Geographic Information System (GIS) of 97 Turin Municipality Guido Bolatto Adriano Sozza Ivano Gauna Maddalena Rusconi Digital City Bristol: A Case Study 110 Annelies de Bruine Digital City Shanghai: Towards Integrated 125 Information & Service Environment Ding Peng Mao Wei Liang Rao Ruo Nan Sheng Huan Ye Ma Fan Yuan Toru Ishida Experiments in the Digital `Engineering City 140 Oulu' Lech Krzanik Minna Makarainen
• COMMUNITY NETWORK EXPERIMENTS Reconfiguring Community Networks: The Case of 151 PrairieKNOW Noshir Contractor Ann Peterson Bishop The Mutual Development of Role, Rule, and 165 Tool Through the VCOM Project Shoko Miyagawa Ikuyo Kaneko Davis Community Network (DCN): A Regional 179 Community Networking Initiative in North-Central California Richard Lowenberg Examining Community in the Digital 194 Neighborhood: Early Results from Canada's Wired Suburb Keith N. Hampton Barry Wellman On-Line Forums as an Arena for Political 209 Discussions Agneta Ranerup
• APPLICATIONS OF DIGITAL CITIES Towards the Integration of Physical and 224 Virtual Worlds for Supporting Group Learning Fusako Kusunoki Masanori Sugimoto Hiromichi Hashizume Digital City for Disaster Reduction - 236 Development of Pictogram System for Disaster Management Haruo Hayashi Satoshi Tanaka Kazunori Urabe Haruhide Yoshida Satoshi Inoue Hideki Shima Nobuhisa Deki Jun Kasagi Takahiro Nishino Masasuke Takashima The Digital City's Public Library: Support 246 for Community Building and Knowledge Sharing Scott Robertson Agent Community with Social Interactions for 261 Worker and Job Hunting Takayoshi Asakura Takahiro Shiroshima Toshiaki Miyashita
• VISUALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES The Motion Generation of Pedestrians as 275 Avatars and Crowds of People Ken Tsutsuguchi Kazuhiro Sugiyama Noboru Sonehara Image-Based Pseudo-3D Visualization of Real 288 Space on WWW Masahiko Tsukamoto Dynamic Zone Retrieval and Landmark 303 Computation for Spatial Data Hiroaki Kawagishi Kengo Koiso Katsumi Tanaka Environment for Spatial Information Sharing 314 Hiroshi Tsuji Takaaki Yamada Maki Tamano Tsuneo Sobue Shuji Kitazawa Image Maps: Exploring Urban History through 326 Digital Photography Brian K. Smith Erik Blankinship Alfred Ashford III Michael Baker Timothy Hirzel
• MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES Navigation Support in a Real City Using City 338 Metaphors Kensaku Fujii Shigeru Nagai Yasuhiko Miyazaki Kazuhiro Sugiyama Public Applications of SpaceTag and Their 350 Impacts Hiroyuki Tarumi Ken Morishita Yahiko Kambayashi Location Oriented Integration of Internet 364 Information - Mobile Info Search Katsumi Takahashi Seiji Yokoji Nobuyuki Miura Fairy in a Smart IC Card: Interfacing People, 378 Town, and Digital City Takao Terano Toshikazu Nishimura Yoko Ishino Eiji Murakami
• SOCIAL INTERACTION AND COMMUNITYWARE A Warm Cyber-Welcome: Using an Agent-Led 391 Group Tour to Introduce Visitors to Kyoto Katherine Isbister Extending the Services and the Accessibility 401 of Community Networks Antonietta Grasso Dave Snowdon Michael Koch Creative Contents Community 416 Toshiyuki Asahi Hisashi Noda Daigo Taguchi Kazuhiro Ishihara Public Opinion Channel: A Challenge for 427