Splintering Urbanism: Networked Infrastructures, Technological Mobilities and the Urban Condition

Graham, S.; Marvin, S.

Abstract

The following text is taken from the publisher's website: "Splintering Urbanism offers a path-breaking analysis of the nature of the urban condition at the start of the new millennium. Adopting a global and interdisciplinary perspective, it reveals how new technologies and increasingly privatised systems of infrastructure provision - telecommunications, highways, urban streets, energy, and water - are supporting the splintering of metropolitan areas across the world. The result is a new 'socio-technical' way of understanding contemporary urban change, which brings together discussions about: * globalisation and the city * the urban and social effects of new technology * urban, architectural and social theory * social polarisation, marginalisation and democratisation * infrastructure, architecture and the built environment * developed, developing and post-communist cities."

Citation

Graham, S., & Marvin, S. (2001). Splintering Urbanism: Networked Infrastructures, Technological Mobilities and the Urban Condition. Routledge

• Book Type: Authored Book
• Publication Date: 2001-06
• Deposit Date: Mar 7, 2008
• Publisher: Routledge
• ISBN: 04151896406
• Keywords: Urban change, City, Technology, Social polarisation, Privatisation, Highways, Urban streets, Energy, Water.
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1127251
• Publisher URL: http://www.routledge.com/shopping_cart/products/product_detail.asp?sku=&isbn=9780415189644&parent_id=&pc=/shopping_cart/search/search.asp?search%3DSplintering%2520Urbanism