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Abstract Many forces have had an impact on the form of the city. Digitization is the new factor that is affecting our built environment, offering potentials that can directly affect man and city performance. The following chapters will focus on the digital revolution and what it will do to the city performance. The digital era offers man and city opportunities, chances, choices and alternatives that will help in better decision making, enhance city living conditions, and govern schemes of space encounters. The following will be an attempt to study the correct exploitation and implementations of the digital opportunities offered by this era. The following chapter will highlight the concept of the digital cities, introducing its different typologies. In addition, new digital and electronic visions will be stressed in order to have a full understanding of how digital advances can integrate with the physical form of the city. The chapter shall also reintroduce aspects that the digital city highly affected, ending up with a scheme of how physical forms have digital parallels, and how they can perform as a one entity. |