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

ISBN-13: 9780415189651 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 512 str.

Stephen Graham

Opis

Two defining processes shape our age: the urbanization of our planet and the uneven connections of globalization. Both are underpinned by radical transformations of networked infrastructures: telecommunications, transport, energy, water, and even urban streets. Splintering Urbanism offers an analysis of the contemporary urban condition through the lens of such infrastructure networks. It develops an international and interdisciplinary analysis of the complex interactions between infrastructure networks, new technologies, and contemporary urban spaces. The text offers a perspective on: globalization and the city; technology and the city; urban, architectural and social theory; infrastructure, architecture and the built environment; social, economic and physical transformations in cities; and developed, post-colonial and post-communist worlds. To illustrate these discussions, Splintering Urbanism brings together a global selection of case studies, examples and boxed extracts. These take the reader on a global journey encompassing financial districts in New York and Tokyo;

Recenzje

'Both interesting and important. It addresses the notion of the network city in a profound way ... a promising and fruitful approach.' - Journal of Housing and the Built Environment

'Splintering Urbanism is a significant work and achievement, bringing together a tremendous amount of research on networks and urban technologies and putting them in one 'manual' or 'guide', whilst at the same time providing an authoritative view of implications and limitations of the 'splintering' process ... it should earn a position as an essential item in any up-to-date reading list.' - Urban Studies

Spis treści

List of plates, List of figures, List of tables, List of boxes, Acknowledgements, PROLOGUE, 1. INTRODUCTION, PART ONE. UNDERSTANDING SPLINTERING URBANISM, 2. CONSTRUCTING THE MODERN NETWORKED CITY, 1850–1960, 3. THE COLLAPSE OF THE INTEGRATED IDEAL, 4. PRACTICES OF SPLINTERING URBANISM, 5. THE CITY AS SOCIOTECHNICAL PROCESS, PART TWO. EXPLORING THE SPLINTERING METROPOLIS, 6. SOCIAL LANDSCAPES OF SPLINTERING URBANISM, 7. ‘GLOCAL’ INFRASTRUCTURE AND THE SPLINTERING OF URBAN ECONOMIES, PART THREE. PLACING SPLINTERING URBANISM, 8. CONCLUSION, POSTSCRIPT, Glossary, Bibliography, Index

O autorze

Steve Graham