I never met him, but his work has been tremendously influential for me as well. This book is well worth a read by all.
On Sep 17, 2006, at 9:09 AM, Barry Wellman wrote: > > I want to pause for a moment and remember Richard Meier -- not the > architect, but the urban planner and theorist -- at Berkeley, etc, > during > the 1960s-1980s. > > His seminal book was A Communications Theory of Urban Growth. > Cambridge, > MA: MIT Press. 1962. > > Chuck Tilly turned me on to this during my 1963-1967 Harvard grad > days. > > I remember, though, over coffee at Berkeley in 1986!! that he > repeatedly > told me that mobile phones were a key to third world development > for the > infrastructure reasons that we are "discovering" now. > > Barry Wellman > _____________________________________________________________________ > > Barry Wellman S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology NetLab Director > Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto > 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 > wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman > for fun: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php > _____________________________________________________________________ > > > On Sun, 17 Sep 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 09:30:28 +0200 >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: [mobile-society] Mobile phones in India and Mobile >> sandwich art >> >> Hello all, >> >> Here is a link to an interesting article on mobile telephony in >> India. >> The structure of the situation is quite interesting there and it >> seems >> that it is vary inexpensive to subscribe and use a mobile. >> >> http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/15/business/worldbusiness/ >> 15cell.html?_r= >> 1&ref=asia&oref=slogin >> >> On a less serious note here is a link to Jib Jab and their take on >> mobile phone sandwich art. >> >> http://www.jibjab.com/jokebox/jokebox/jibjab/id/137260/jokeid/47050 >> >> >> >> >> Rich L. >> >> >>> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mobile-society" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mobile-society -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
