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UNINA9910826857603321 |
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Titolo |
Urban assemblages : how actor-network theory changes urban studies / / edited by Ignacio Farias and Thomas Bender |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-135-20273-7 |
1-283-58973-7 |
9786613902184 |
0-203-87063-8 |
1-135-20274-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (353 p.) |
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Collana |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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BenderThomas <1944-> |
FariasIgnacio <1978-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Cities and towns - Growth |
Sociology, Urban |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Urban Assemblages: How Actor-Network Theory changes urban studies; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Decentring the object of urban studies; Part 1 Towards a flat ontology?; 1 Gelleable spaces, eventful geographies: The case of Santiago's experimental music scene; 2 Globalizations big and small: Notes on urban studies, Actor-Network Theory, and geographical scale; 3 Urban studies without 'scale': Localizing the global through Singapore; 4 Assembling Asturias: Scaling devices and cultural leverage; Interview with Nigel Thrift |
Part 2 A non-human urban ecology5 How do we co-produce urban transport systems and the city?: The case of Transmilenio and Bogotá; 6 Changing obdurate urban objects: The attempts to reconstruct the highway through Maastricht; 7 Mutable immobiles: Building conversion as a problem of quasi-technologies; 8 Conviction and commotion: On soundspheres, technopolitics and urban spaces; Interview with Stephen Graham; Part 3 The multiple city; 9 The reality of urban tourism: Framed activity and virtual ontology; 10 Assembling money and the |
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senses: Revisiting Georg Simmel and the city |
11 The city as value locus: Markets, technologies, and the problem of worth12 Second empire, second nature, secondary world: Verne and Baudelaire in the capital of the nineteenth century; Interview with Rob Shields; Postscript: Reassembling the city: networks and urban imaginaries; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book takes it as a given that the city is made of multiple partially localized assemblages built of heterogeneous networks, spaces, and practices. The past century of urban studies has focused on various aspects-space, culture, politics, economy-but these too often address each domain and the city itself as a bounded and cohesive entity. The multiple and overlapping enactments that constitute urban life require a commensurate method of analysis that encompasses the human and non-human aspects of cities-from nature to socio-technical networks, to hybrid collectivities, physical artefact |
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