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Networked Cities: New Nodes Created
by Growing Networking
The global city is not a place, but
a process (Manuel Castells)
- Telecom switching centers: urban hubs
but not necessarily in urban geographic space
- Data centers, Web colocation centers,
data havens: likewise
- Metropolitan Network Access Points,
MAEs: network concentration, exchange points
- Highway interchanges, toll booths
- Bank and Financial Networks ($5 trillion
daily in global financial transactions)
- Bank ATMs
- Cell phone radio towers; cell phone
- Wireless networking "hotpoints"
(airports, Starbucks, hotels, etc.)
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