Beyond the Networked City (eBook, PDF)

Infrastructure reconfigurations and urban change in the North and South
Redaktion: Coutard, Olivier; Rutherford, Jonathan

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Produktbeschreibung

With contributions from leading authorities in the field, this book draws on the latest advances in social and urban theory, and original empirical material from North and South, to critically analyse the ongoing shifts in the relations between cities and technical infrastructure systems. It explore the urban condition beyond the realm of large networked infrastructures in globally diverse contexts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317633709
• Artikelnr.: 44473257

Autorenporträt

Olivier Coutard is a director of research with the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), where he has held a full-time research position since 1996. Jonathan Rutherford holds a research post at LATTS (Laboratoire Techniques, Territoires et Sociétés), Université Paris-Est.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Beyond the networked city: an introduction 2. Changing sanitation
infrastructure in Hanoi: hybrid topologies and the networked city 3. Beyond
the networked city, the hyper-networked city? Decline and renaissance of
the Parisian non-potable water system (1820-2020) 4. District heating comes
to ecotown: zero carbon housing and the rescaling of UK energy provision
5. Rethinking universality and disrepair: seeking infrastructure
coexistence in Quibdó, Colombia 6. De-networking the poor: revanchist
urbanism and hydrological apartheid in Mumbai 7. Another urban
infrastructure is possible: contesting energy and water networks in Berlin
8. A political economy of urban solid waste management in emerging
countries: learning from Vitória (Brazil) and Coimbatore (India) 9. Is the
network challenged by the pragmatic turn in African cities? Urban
transition and hybrid delivery configurations 10. Enabling urban energy:
governance of innovation in two UK cities 11. Volumetric urbanism:
artificial "outsides" reassembled "inside" 12. Infrastructures and
practices: networks beyond the city 13. Coda