1 Nunes, Flávio (2005). Aveiro, Portugal: making a digital city. Journal of Urban Technology, 12(1), pp. 49-70. Aveiro, Portugal: Making a Digital City Flávio Nunes University of Minho - Department of Geography (Portugal, Guimarães) Introduction In recent years, attention is increasingly being drawn to the investigation of how the economic, social and cultural aspects of cities interact with the proliferation of advanced computer-based telecommunications networks. Therefore, the co-evolution of cities and tele- mediated interactions is progressively emphasised in academic debates concerning the future of cities. As a result, the digital city concept has been defined as a means of creatively integrating telecommunications into urban policy and planning practices and strategies, in order to develop more inclusive and sustainable urban futures 1 . One of the first contributions to this debate was made in 1994, when William Mitchell published the City of Bits (13). In this book he suggested an exploratory vision by which the remote interactions, provided by the diffusion of information and communication technologies (ICT) in contemporary societies, would gradually transform urban form and function, in such a way that he points out the need to enlarge our conceptions of urban planning in order to include virtual places as well as physical ones. In a later work (14), Mitchell clarified that this recent wave of urban infrastructural networking will not create