Urban assemblages : how actor-network theory changes urban studies / / edited by Ignacio Farias and Thomas Bender

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (353 p.)
• Disciplina: 307.76
• Soggetto topico: Cities and towns - Growth; Sociology, Urban
• Altri autori: BenderThomas <1944-> FariasIgnacio <1978->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Altri titoli varianti: How actor-network theory changes urban studies
• Titolo autorizzato: Urban assemblages
• ISBN: 1-135-20273-7; 1-283-58973-7; 9786613902184; 0-203-87063-8; 1-135-20274-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826857603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Questioning cities series.