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Splintering Urbanism: Networked Infrastructures, Technological Mobilities and the Urban Condition (Paperback)
Splintering Urbanism: Networked Infrastructures, Technological Mobilities and the Urban Condition (Paperback)
Author: Graham, Stephen / Marvin, Simon
Edition/Copyright: 2001
ISBN: 0-415-18965-9
Publisher: Routledge N. Y.
Type: Print On Demand
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"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

 
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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

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