:1) It concerns an already structured social space, of which it changes the form, the social content and/or function. - Manuel Castells

It is a question of going beyond the description of mechanisms of interaction between locations and activities, in order to discover the structural laws of the production and functioning of the spatial forms studied... There is no specific theory of space, but quite simply a deployment and specification of the theory of social structure, in order to account for the characteristics of the particular social form, space and its articulation with other historically given, form and processes.

The fundamental digital divide is no measured by the number of connections to the Internet, but by the consequences of both connection and lack of connection.

:2) It is based on public initiative, whatever the legal or financial form of the renewal agency, where private enterprise may take over the work, as in the case of Opératioll Italie.