Splintering Urbanism: Networked Infrastructures, Technological Mobilities and the Urban Condition (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780415189651)

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.

Author: Steve Graham, Simon Marvin
ISBN-10: 0415189659
ISBN-13: 9780415189651
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 06/14/2001
Pages: 512
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.22lbs
Size: 9.74h x 6.90w x 0.95d