Splintering Urbanism; Networked Infrastructures, Technological Mobilities and the Urban Condition
Editorial Reviews
Review
The dynamic, critical, transdisciplinary, international, and historically rooted nature of Graham and Marvin's analysis makes it a remarkable contribution to the study of both infrastructure development and contemporary urbanism...this book, which includes 37 boxed examples over 100 illustrations, a glossary, and a comprehensive bibliography, should be a required text for courses in city planning, geography, political science, sociology, and religional science. Splintering Urbanism would be of interest to any scholar concerned with the exploring the material basis that constitutes our urban experience.
-Journal of Religional Science
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
Book Description
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.
Splintering Urbanism; Networked Infrastructures, Technological Mobilities and the Urban Condition
Splintering Urbanism,Stephen Graham,Routledge,0415189659,Cities and towns,Computer networks,Infrastructure (Economics),Social Science,Social aspects,Sociology,Sociology - Urban,Technology,Cultural studies,Globalization,Social Science / Sociology / Urban,Social theory,Urban communities
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