The argument is this. For too long information and communications technologies have been lazily portrayed as means to simply escape into a parallel world - to withdraw from the body, or the city, in some utopian, or dystopian, stampede on-line. Such perspectives deny the fact that the so-called 'information society' is also an increasingly urban society. They ignore the ways in which new technologies now mediate every dimension of the fabric of everyday urban life. And they tend to obscure a key question : how do the multifaceted realities of city regions interrelate in practice with new technologies in different ways in different places ?

Many continue to view the city as the world, in all its various aspects, as "discrete" and not continuous in form. He used the word discrete in mathematical terms, meaning composed of separate, divisible parts. Instead of a series of linear images that formed a sequence or a system of places, thought now appeared as a series of discontinuous states and combinatorial relays

The city is otherwise. It is networked, a series of flows.