Intelligent spaces: the technical-scientific-informational milieu and the city of São Carlos (SP).

Author(s)

Rodrigo José Firmino

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Carlos.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos (EESC/SBD)
• Defense date: 2000-05-03

Examining board members

Azael Rangel Camargo; Ricardo Martucci; Maria Adelia Aparecida de Souza

• Advisor: Azael Rangel Camargo

Abstract

Deep and continuous technological advances in whole aspects of the contemporary society have brought off new production ways, new patterns of life and a great change in the reproductive process of the society. It has demonstrated an urgent need to understand several facts that are direct causes of these actual changes, mainly those responsible for new patterns on the spatial configuration.In this way, we have intended to understand the logic of the spatial organisation in front of a world immersed in a globalisation process, which is leaded by the technical, scientific and informational development. The called intelligent spaces, beside a technical, scientific and informational milieu, have leaded the investigation about contemporary spatial configurations. How is its structure? Where is it emerging? Who and what it take advantages? These are some of the main questions to be answered now. Among possible answers, we have presented a proposal to understand the configuration of cities and regions in accord of the production and the use of technology: different urban and regional functions and configurations established by specific spaces producing and using high technology. (AU)