Preliminary communication
New Spatial Processes as Influenced by Modern Communications
Miroslav Jilek
; Odsjek za sciologiju, Filozofski fakultet Zagreb, Đure Salaja 3
Abstract
The starting hypothesis of the study is the elimination of the necessity to travel because of future omnipresence of the factors which earlier could be found only by changing place in an area. The following hypothesis about the elimination of cities as the specific organizations of life and lodging in an area is based on a systematic analysis of the factors which slow down the spreading of cities and modify the process of urbanization.
These factors are reflected in changes of energy sources, transmission of information, goods traffic, structure of industrial production, structure of expenditures, traffic of private cars, and type of dwellings (Jiri Musil).
All these factors contribute to decentralization of dwellings and better the chances to avoid dehumanizing characteristics of cities. The basic conditions for this process to take place are communications and connections which open new possibilities of mass contacts between urban and rural population from the one side while making place to the influence of cultural contacts and penetration of modern equipment in apartments and agglomerations from the other side. After analyzing all these tendencies, is it not natural to expect that human mobility and travel will cease to be a must, while the city as the specific organization of the elements that radically changed, is going to be eliminated?
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Publication date:
31.12.1975.
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