Digital cities: the internet and the geography of opportunity

Federal broadband policy has largely ignored urban areas, where most Americans live. Using an original and unprecedented multi-level analysis of access and use in low-income neighbourhoods, 'Digital Cities' tells the story of information technology use and inequality in American cities and metropolitan areas.

Cities and a digital society -- The need for urban broadband policy -- Place and inequality : urban, suburban, and rural America -- Mobile access and the less-connected -- Ranking digital cities and suburbs -- Mapping opportunity in Chicago neighborhoods -- The geography of barriers to broadband adoption -- Barriers to adoption in Chicago neighborhoods -- From neighborhoods to Washington : policy solutions