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Splintering Urbanism

Stephen Graham, Simon Marvin

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Overview

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.

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Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2001
Pages: 479
Language: EN
Categories: Business & Economics / Infrastructure, Computers / Information Technology, Computers / Social Aspects, History / General, Political Science / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, Political Science / Globalization, Science / Environmental Science, Science / Earth Sciences / Geography, Social Science / Human Geography, Social Science / Sociology / Urban, Technology & Engineering / Civil / General, Technology & Engineering / Social Aspects
ISBN-13: 9780415189644