Mobile Technologies of the City

ISBN-13: 9780415374347 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 208 str.

Mimi Sheller; John Urry

Opis

Mobile communications technologies are taking off across the world, while urban transportation and surveillance systems are also being rebuilt and updated. Emergent practices of physical, informational and communicational mobility are reconfiguring patterns of movement, co-presence, social exclusion and security across many urban contexts. This book brings together a carefully selected group of innovative case studies of these mobile technologies of the city, tracing the emergence of both new socio-technical practices of the city and of a new theoretical paradigm for mobilities research.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Mobile Cities, Urban Mobilities  Part 1: Mobilities and the Creation of Urban Spatial Form  2. The Linear City: Touring Vienna in the Nineteenth Century  3. Between the Physical and the Virtual: Connected Mobilities?  4. Urban Violence: Luxury in Made Space  Part 2: Re-Configuring Co-Presence  5. Bypassing and WAPing: Reconfiguring Timetables for 'Real-Time' Mobility  6. Reshaping Patterns of Mobility and Exclusion? The Impact of Virtual Mobility upon Acesssibility, Mobility and Social Exclusion  7. Twin Towers and Amoy Gardens: Mobilities, Risks and Choices  Part 3: Cultures of Infrastructure and Public Space  8. From Café to Parkbench: Wi-Fi and Technological Overflows in the City  9. ICTs and the Engineering of Encounters: A Case Study of the Development of a Mobile Game Based on the Geolocation of Terminals  10. Permeable Boundaries in the Software-Sorted Society: Surveillance and Differentiations of Mobility