Presents papers contributed to the Second Kyoto Workshop on Digital Cities, held in Japan in 2001. The 29 papers cover: concepts and theory; politics of the digitial city movement; examples of digital cities; evaluations; architectures for digital cities; and technologies for digital cities.

Introduction: Digital Cities Research and Open Issues.- Introduction: Digital Cities Research and Open Issues.- Concepts and Theory.- Little Boxes, Glocalization, and Networked Individualism.- Privacy, Predictability or Serendipity and Digital Cities.- Regularities in the Formation and Evolution of Information Cities.- Communication of Social Agents and the Digital City — A Semiotic Perspective.- Politics of the Digital City Movement.- Digital Cities and Digital Citizens.- Designing Democratic Community Networks: Involving Communities through Civil Participation.- TeleCities — Digital Cities Network.- Urbana-Champaign.- The Camfield Estates-MIT Creating Community Connections Project: Strategies for Active Participation in a Low- to Moderate-Income Community.- Community Websites as a Local Communication Network: “Directory Westfield”, an Experience Report.- Ennis Information Age Town: Virtuality Rooted in Reality.- Feasibility Study of Digital Community through Virtual Enterprise Network.- Knowledge-Based Economic Services Supported by Digital Experiments.- Evaluations.- Community Network Development: A Dialectical View.- The Complexity of Using Commercial Forces to Counteract the Digital Divide: A Case Study of the TUC of Sweden.- Lessons Learned: Social Interaction in Virtual Environments.- Worlds Apart: Exclusion-Processes in DDS.- Log Analysis of Map-Based Web Page Search on Digital City Kyoto.- Architectures for Digital Cities.- Connecting Digital and Physical Cities.- Twin Worlds: Augmenting, Evaluating, and Studying Three-Dimensional Digital Cities and Their Evolving Communities.- Creating City Community Consanguinity: Use of Public Opinion Channel in Digital Cities.- Agent-Based Coordination of Regional Information Services.- Realization of DigitalEnvironmental Education — A Future Style of Environmental Education in Dynamically Changing Virtual Environment —.- Technologies for Digital Cities.- A 3-D Photo Collage System for Spatial Navigations.- Study on Mobile Passenger Support Systems for Public Transportation Using Multi-channel Data Dissemination.- Spatial Information Sharing for Mobile Phones.- Agents in the World of Active Web-Services.- Town Digitizing for Building an Image-Based Cyber Space.- Language Design for Rescue Agents.- Urban Pilot A Handheld City Guide That Maps Personal and Collective Experiences through Social Networks.

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