New Perspectives on Public Services: Place and Technology

1. Introduction: Where is the Government? 2. Theories of Place and Technology: a Review 3. Placeshifts: Technologies and the Scale of Change 4. Governments as Placemakers: Modalities and Effects 5. Capital Flight - Moving Out from the Big City 6. Save our Hospital! 7. Births, Marriages, Deaths, and Identities 8. The Police 9. Discussion and Conclusions Annex A: Technology, Place and Task (TPT): Brief Summary of a Research Programme