The satisfaction of human needs in physical and virtualspaces
Competition ; Internet ; Social geography ; Space ; Virtualspace ; e
This article explores the spatial dimension of Maslow's theory on the hierarchy of human needs, in light of the growing role of virtualspace via the Internet in the contemporary information age.It explains that the growing role of virtualspace has
evolved into an equivalent hierarchical relation-ship with physical space: complementarity, competition, substitution, escape, and, potentially also exclusivity. Escape from physical to virtualspace, as both need and relationship, has been brought about
by social networking, being similar to the physical escape offered by tourism. It does not seem real to foresee that virtualspace will offer exclusive fulfillment of as of yet unforeseen new human needs.
Virtual departments, power, and location in different organizational settings
The electronic space of the virtual department is where tasks related to production function are integrated during reengineering processes, establishing new relationships among hierarchy, location, and power. The study assesses whether the virtual
in electronic space, contributing to the formation of heierarchical levels of network access.
Re-mediating the spaces of reality television : America's Most Wanted and the case of Vancouver's missing women
The A. speaks to debates amongst geographers and media scholars about the communities that television constructs in both real and virtualspaces. Analysis turns to a 1999 episode of Fox TV's that featured the mysterious disappearances of 31 women.
This article analyses the important social and environmental changes in meaning of the concept of place, becoming nowadays more virtual than real. It demonstrates that it constructs through participation in which both a collective and mental state
Accessibility ; Activity space ; Communication ; Impact ; Information ; Spatial structure ; Telecommunications ; Urban area ; Urban society
of travel time for people who can partially substitute telecommunications for transportation, and the migration of opportunities from physical space to virtual and hybrid spaces. Individual's position is measured in terms of accessibility to economic
hostile environment and of transport in a virtually unlimited space are also considered at length together with the broader geopolitical questions of the Soviet Union's present and future relations with the rest of the world. This publication is made
and considers its current problems of population and ethnic and national relations. Considerable space is devoted to the resource base and the organisation, distribution and capacity of Soviet industry. The particular problems of agriculture in an essentially
to a sediment input which was particularly variable in time and space. Although mining has now virtually ceased, it will continue to have an impact on the physical landscape well into the twenty-first century.
Exploring and navigating electronic space. II. L'espace des réseaux électroniques : exploration et navigation
between 180 major global Internet domains. The hyperlink structure of the Web is treated as a network and a virtual distance between these domains is calculated using a shortest path methodology from which the mini-sum distance of all the sites
Architecture ; Concept ; Modernism ; Social space ; Space ; Town ; Urban area ; Urban sociology
The A. aims to find an understanding of the concept of space which could be used in urban design, but which could also be shared by others with an interest in space. He argues that to arrive at a common platform in which a meaningful communication
can become possible, there is a need to confront the fragmentation by moving towards a more unified concept of space. He also argues for a concept of space which refers to physical space with its social and psychological dimensions.