E-Neighbor-Topia: A Typological Study on the Impacts of Information and Communication Technologies o

Existing urban areas attempt to adapt themselves with
the digital revolution, and developers are
future-proofing their properties by building
high-speed wiring into the neighborhoods. However, if
residential environments employ the technology
without appropriate planning and foresight the result
will be as sad as many cities like Venice that lost
their traders and residents after its disability of
taking the heavy infrastructures of modernism.
Therefore, investigating the changes required in
neighborhoods in order to make them more convenient
to locate new functions and activities is the
necessary task to develop new generation of
infrastructure design. This book is studying newly
emerging ICT-based lifestyles and through them the
social and spatial impacts that they are seeking or
may cause in their living environments. The study is
typological and emphasizes on the similarities and
differences between different neighborhood types (as
physical contexts) and lifestyles (as human
contexts). The analysis should be useful to
professionals in urban planning, urban design and
architecture fields, or anyone else who may be
interested in better understanding of their fast
changing world.