In the same way that infrastructures such as transportation, electricity, sewage, and water supply are widely assumed to be integrators of urban spaces, informa

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license. The book aims to be a resource for those interested in planning and implementing large-scale information

Basic services such as electricity, transportation, mobile communication and banking are the core infrastructures on which modern societies and economies rest.

While societies have always had information infrastructures, the power and reach of today's information technologies offer opportunities to transform work and f

In this comparison of infrastructure across countries and sectors, leading international academics and practitioners consider the latest approaches to infrastru