Splintering Urbanism : Networked Infrastructures, Technological Mobilities and the Urban Condition

Item Type Book URL https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9780203452202/splintering-urbanism-steve-graham-simon-marvin Publisher Routledge ISBN 978-0-203-45220-2 Date 2002/09/11 Extra DOI: 10.4324/9780203452202 Accessed 2024-08-18 23:04:56 Library Catalog www.taylorfrancis.com Language en Abstract Splintering Urbanism makes an international and interdisciplinary analysis of the complex interactions between infrastructure networks and urban spaces. It delivers a new and powerful way of understanding contemporary urban change, bringing together discussions about:*globalization and the city*technology and society*urban space and urban networks*infrastructure and the built environment*developed, developing and post-communist worlds.With a range of case studies, illustrations and boxed examples, from New York to Jakarta, Johannesberg to Manila and Sao Paolo to Melbourne, Splintering Urbanism demonstrates the latest social, urban and technological theories, which give us an understanding of our contemporary metropolis. Short Title Splintering Urbanism