The Connected City: How Networks Are Shaping the Modern Metropolis

ISBN-13: 9780415881425 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 272 str.

Zachary P Neal

Opis

How Networks are Shaping the Modern Metropolis. The Connected City explores how thinking about networks helps make sense of modern cities what they are, how they work, and where they are headed. Cities and urban life can be examined as networks, and these urban networks can be examined at many different levels. This book focuses on three levels of urban networks micro, meso, and macro.

Spis treści

1 INTRODUCTION: Why cities? Why networks? 

Part 1: Micro-urban Networks: Networks within Cities 

2. COMMUNITY: Lost or found 

3. SUBCULTURE: Finding your crowd in a crowd 

4. POLITICS: We don’t want nobody nobody sent 

Part 2: Meso-urban Networks: Cities as Networks 

5. FORM: Getting from here to there 

6. FUNCTION: Working together 

Part 3: Macro-urban Networks: Networks of Cities 

7. REGIONAL: From city to metropolis 

8. NATIONAL: The real action is between cities 

9. GLOBAL: Nylon holds the world together 

10. CONCLUSION: The new science of urban networks 

Notes. 

References and suggested reading. 

Index.

O autorze

Zachary P. Neal is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Global Urban Studies at Michigan State University, and serves as Associate Editor of Global Networks and on the Editorial Board of City and Community. His research on cities and networks has appeared in Urban Studies, Global Networks, City and Community, the Journal of Urban Affairs, and Geographical Analysis. He is also the co-editor of Common Ground? Readings and Reflections on Public Space.