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Following half a century of breakneck urbanization, the capital of South Korea emerged in the late 1990s as the most digitally networked city in the world. With nearly 80% household broadband penetration in 2004, Seoul surpassed global cities and 'technopoles' in speed and comprehensiveness in embracing broadband technology. In this paper I describe the physical development of Seoul's broadband infrastructure and its frequent intersections with daily urban life. As the fourth largest urban agglomeration in the world, Seoul offers a unique case for investigating the intersection of telecommunications policy, development, and culture in large metropolitan regions, as well as the everyday implications of pervasive computing. It also highlights emerging challenges and opportunities presented by the rapid and widespread deployment of digital network infrastructure.

Cities have played an important role in the process of globalization as centers for information exchange. Urban scholars note that a handful of dominant financial services centers—so-called global cities—has dominated international telecommunications networks. Yet, these and others have failed to understand how new telecommunications technologies, particularly the Internet, are enabling a far broader diffusion of international interurban connectivity, a far more complex global web than in earlier eras. This article presents evidence on the Internet backbone in which traditionally dominant urban hubs for international communications—London, New York, and Tokyo—are increasingly being supplemented by other hubs within their regions. The global structure of the Internet reflects a shift in the geography of telecommunications networks and the emergence of a network of network cities. To cope with this challenge, urban planners are urged to address three issues: dependency on other cities and urban areas, accessibility to global Internet backbone networks, and proficiency with communications technology.

The recent rapid growth of the Internet has avoided scrutiny from urban planners as little information is available from which to assess its impacts on cities and regions. As a result, explanations of the relationship between telecommunications and urban growth are overly simplistic, forecasting either the centralization of decision-making in so-called 'global' cities or wholesale urban dissolution. Based on two measurements of Internet geography—domain name registrations and backbone networks—this study finds that access to advanced communications technologies have broadly diffused across a wide group of medium-sized and large-sized metropolitan areas. Finally, the implications of these findings suggest a need to rethink global cities and a practical need to address the growing divide between network cities and the rest of the urban world.

This study focuses on an exploration of value differences between administrative workers in the arts and workers in for-profit business organizations. Data were collected among both for-profit and arts workers to determine if there are differences in the things they value in the workplace. Analyses indicate that there are differences between the groups' work values. The managerial implications of the study are then discussed at length. Here has been an increasing appreciation of the special problems and administrative imperatives faced by managers in semi-public organization and not-for-profit arts organizations in particular. Most arts organizations function somewhere in the gray area between a public agency (as they are frequently supported by, and responsible to, both municipal and Federal programs) and true not-for-profits. As such, administrators in arts organizations look to the experiences of both public agencies, as well as not-for-profit organizations, to provide guidance on the daily management of their organizational mission.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The School of Hard Cyber Knocks: NEA's Experience -- 3. Challenges and Opportunities: Unions Confront the New Information Technologies -- 4. E-Voice: How Information Technology is Shaping Life within Unions -- 5. Today's Unions as Tomorrow's CyberUnions: Labor's Newest Hope -- 6. Information Technology: The Threat to Unions -- 7. Workers as Cyborgs: Labor and Networked Computers -- 8. Solidarity.com? Class and Collective Action in the Electronic Village -- 9. How New Lawyers Use E-Voice to Drive Firm Compensation: The "Greedy Associates" Phenomenon* -- 10. An Identity Perspective on the Propensity of High-Tech Talent to Unionize -- 11. The Use of Information Technology in a Strike -- 12. Privacy, Technology, and Conflict: Emerging Issues and Action in Workplace Privacy -- 13. Privacy and Profitability in the Technological Workplace -- 14. Employee E-Mail and Internet Use: Canadian Legal Issues -- Index