Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have become increasingly central to the economic development of advanced economies. However, access to ICTs is uneven across space to the particular disadvantage of peripheral areas. While a literature has built up around western European...

It is increasingly being proposed that the conjunction of telecommunications and computing into 'telematics' has major significance for urban policy makers and enables the positive development of urban economic development strategies. By contrast, failing to participate in such telematics...