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Cities are comprised of bricks and mortar, concrete and glass, roads, rails, pipes and cables, people, plants and animals. The layers of cities also include the many histories, memories, legends and stories that people ascribe to place (Crang 1996; Graham 2010). Yet cities have been going through two important transitions that have brought into being new dimensions that profoundly matter for the ways that we interact with our urban environments. Cities are no longer just confined to their material presences: they have become both digital and digitized.
The most profound technologies are those that disappear.
(Weiser, 1991, 94)
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See Steve Gibbons’ blog ‘Crime Nudge’ (2011) available at http://spatial-economics.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/crime-nudge.html.
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Graham, M. (2013). The Virtual Dimension. In: Acuto, M., Steele, W. (eds) Global City Challenges. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137286871_8
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