A (cyber)geography of digital cities

Abstract

The cyberespace comes as one of the dimensions of the geographical space. In this sense, the real cities acquire a new content, starting from the overlapping of a layer of the cyberespace translated as digital city. The digital cities emerge as an alternative of potentiating the territory in a complemental way the organization of the real cities. In planetary scale, some initiatives are references and they were idealized to assist the community in net, virtually maid in agreement with each real community's needs. This research has as central objective to analyze the digital city in the salience of the transformations of the society informational, in that the cyberespace is constituted in a projection and representation of the social relationships in the nets of Internet.