Published: 2007-03-06
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ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)
With increased popular and scholarly interest in the impact of digital media technologies on city planning and urban living; the significance of physical places; where people can access material media; is often overlooked. I argue that public libraries play important social roles in facilitating media access for technological have-nots; in remaining as one of the city’s few remaining freely accessible public spaces; and in maintaining environments uniquely suited to the access of physical media with distinctive material qualities.
