Networked Urbanism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Networked Urbanism write by Talja Blokland. This book was released on 2016-04-22. Networked Urbanism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Despite considerable interest in social capital amongst urban policy makers and academics alike, there is currently little direct focus on its urban dimensions. In this volume leading urban researchers from the Netherlands, the UK, the USA, Australia, Italy and France explore the nature of social networks and the significance of voluntary associations for contemporary urban life. Networked Urbanism recognizes that there is currently a sense of crisis in the cohesion of the city which has led to public attempts to encourage networking and the fostering of 'social capital'. However, the contributors collectively demonstrate how new kinds of 'networked urbanism' associated with ghettoization, suburbanization and segregation have broken from the kind of textured urban communities that existed in the past. This has generated new forms of exclusionary social capital, which fail to significantly resolve the problems of poor residents, whilst strengthening the position of the advantaged. Grounded in theoretical reflection and empirical research, Networked Urbanism will be of interest to scholars and students of sociology, geography and urban studies, as well as to policy makers.
Splintering Urbanism
Splintering Urbanism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Splintering Urbanism write by Steve Graham. This book was released on 2002-09-11. Splintering Urbanism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Splintering Urbanism makes an international and interdisciplinary analysis of the complex interactions between infrastructure networks and urban spaces. It delivers a new and powerful way of understanding contemporary urban change, bringing together discussions about: *globalization and the city *technology and society *urban space and urban networks *infrastructure and the built environment *developed, developing and post-communist worlds. With a range of case studies, illustrations and boxed examples, from New York to Jakarta, Johannesberg to Manila and Sao Paolo to Melbourne, Splintering Urbanism demonstrates the latest social, urban and technological theories, which give us an understanding of our contemporary metropolis.
Networked Urbanism
Networked Urbanism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Networked Urbanism write by Belinda Tato. This book was released on 2014. Networked Urbanism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Exploring Networked Urban Mobilities
Exploring Networked Urban Mobilities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Exploring Networked Urban Mobilities write by Malene Freudendal-Pedersen. This book was released on 2017-10-20. Exploring Networked Urban Mobilities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Exploring Networked Urban Mobilities explores different conceptual and theoretical angles between social practices and urban environments, culture, infrastructures, technologies, and the politics of mobility. The book introduces the concept of networked urban mobilities and lays out a research agenda for the future of mobility studies. Each of the contributors represents a specific approach in the field and each article provides cutting-edge theoretical and conceptual reflections on the topic. Mobility here is understood as a heterogeneous phenomenon that shapes modern societies and cities by emerging in different dimensions: as physical, social, cultural, and digital mobilities.
Beyond the Networked City
Beyond the Networked City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond the Networked City write by Olivier Coutard. This book was released on 2015-12-14. Beyond the Networked City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cities around the world are undergoing profound changes. In this global era, we live in a world of rising knowledge economies, digital technologies, and awareness of environmental issues. The so-called "modern infrastructural ideal" of spatially and socially ubiquitous centrally-governed infrastructures providing exclusive, homogeneous services over extensive areas, has been the standard of reference for the provision of basic essential services, such as water and energy supply. This book argues that, after decades of undisputed domination, this ideal is being increasingly questioned and that the network ideology that supports it may be waning. In order to begin exploring the highly diverse, fluid and unstable landscapes emerging beyond the networked city, this book identifies dynamics through which a ‘break’ with previous configurations has been operated, and new brittle zones of socio-technical controversy through which urban infrastructure (and its wider meaning) are being negotiated and fought over. It uncovers, across a diverse set of urban contexts, new ways in which processes of urbanization and infrastructure production are being combined with crucial sociopolitical implications: through shifting political economies of infrastructure which rework resource distribution and value creation; through new infrastructural spaces and territorialities which rebundle socio-technical systems for particular interests and claims; and through changing offsets between individual and collective appropriation, experience and mobilization of infrastructure. With contributions from leading authorities in the field and drawing on theoretical advances and original empirical material, this book is a major contribution to an ongoing infrastructural turn in urban studies, and will be of interest to all those concerned by the diverse forms and contested outcomes of contemporary urban change across North and South.
