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While mobile telephones are sold as a technology that helps conquer constraints of location and geography, it is increasingly apparent that the time-management capabilities of this new tool are equally important. As a result, the widespread use of these devices is quickening the pace of urban life and at an aggregate level, resulting in a dramatic increase in the metabolism of urban systems. This accelerated metabolism is directly tied to the widespread formation of new decentralized information networks facilitated by this new technology

Urban life, time, space and the mobile phone



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