The Social Fabric of the Networked City
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The Social Fabric of the Networked City

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The Social Fabric of the Networked City

About this book

This book is constructed around the work of Manuel Castells on the space of places, the space of flows and the networked city. Following an introduction by Castells, in which he sets out the theoretical and empirical framework to be followed, the book features nine contributions focusing on the transformation of the fabric of the networked city in terms of policies and social practices. The book aims to rethink sociological perspectives on urban phenomena through a dynamic exploration of the links between infrastructural and technological aspects of urban order, power relations and everyday life experiences. This reappraisal is based on contemporary trends in social theory. The proposed perspective also avoids the immaterialisation of post-modern urban analysis and the material determinism of the structural approach to the city. Without elaborating on the artificial dimensions between technology and society; between nature and culture; or between science and politics, the texts eevaluate the role of objects and conventional elements (such as codes and regulations) in the transformation of the city.

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Yes, you can access The Social Fabric of the Networked City by Géraldine Pflieger, Luca Pattaroni, Christophe Jemelin, Vincent Kaufmann in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Architecture & Urban Planning & Landscaping. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
PPUR
Year
2008
Print ISBN
9782940222230
eBook ISBN
9782889149605
Topic
Architecture
Subtopic
Urban Planning & Landscaping

Table of contents

  1. Preface: The Networked City
  2. Table of Contents
  3. 1 Introduction :Urban Forms, Experience and Power
  4. 2 Skating over Thin Ice
  5. 3 Spatial Patterns and Social Inequalityin Switzerland—Modern or Post-modern ?
  6. 4 Public Space Management and Public Transport Quality—Vectors of Gentrification: Six Parisian Case Studies
  7. 5 Architecture and Reflexivity
  8. 6 Building Development in the 19th Century: between Planning Procedures and Local Action
  9. 7 Innovation in “Urbanism” Thinking: Spectrum and Limit
  10. 8 Urban Planning in France in the 1960s :an Affair of State
  11. 9 Planning, Power, and Policy Change in the Networked City: the Politics of a New Tramway in the City of Bern
  12. 10 Towards a Regulation of the Spaceof Flows via Environmental Conflicts: Airports and Airport Areas as Laboratories of Urban Sustainability?
  13. 11 Conclusion: The Revenge of Places
  14. About the authors