"The book makes a welcome contribution in...making explicit the linkages with privatization, deregulation,
and liberalisation. This is an important piece of information."
--Times Higher Education Supplement 8 Nov 2002
"A significant work and achievement, bringing together a tremendous amountof research on networks and urban
technologies...it should earn a position as an essential item in any up-to-date reading list."
--Urban Studies October 1, 2002
Publisher Web Site, February, 2003
Summary
This work offers a path-breaking analysis of the nature of the urban condition at the start of the new millennium.
Adopting a global and interdisciplinary perspective, it reveals how new technologies and increasingly privatised
systems of infrastructure provision--telecommunications, highways, urban streets, energy, and water--are supporting
the splintering of metropolitan areas across the world.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction:Networked Infrastructures, Technological Mobilities, and the Urban Condition Part One:Understanding
Splintering Urbanism
2. Constructing the Modern Infrastructural Ideal:1850-1960
3. The Collapse of the Integrated Ideal:The Modern Networked City in Crisis
4. Practices of Splintering Urbanism
5. The City as Socio-Technical Process:Theorizing Splintering Urbanism Part Two:Exploring the Splintering Metropolis
6. Social Landscapes of the Splintering Metropolis
7. "Glocal" Intrastructure and the Splintering of Urban Economies Part Three: Placing Splintering Urbanism
8. Conclusions:The Limits to Splintering Urbanism
9. Postscript:A Manifesto for a Progressive Networked Urbanism