Mobile Technologies of the City

ISBN-13: 9780415655606 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012

Opis

Mobile communications technologies are taking off across the world. This text brings together a 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 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