Sustaining Urban Networks: The Social Diffusion of Large Technical Systems

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ISBN: 9780415324588 | 0415324580
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 12/29/2004

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Taking sustainability in its triple economic, environmental and social dimensions, the contributors take stock of previous research on large technical systems and discuss their sustainability from three main perspectives: uses, cities, rules/institutions.

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Acknowledgments

xiv

Introduction Network Systems Revisited: The Confounding Nature of Universal Systems

(12)

Olivier Coutard

Richard E. Hanley

Rae Zimmerman

Part I Networks and the Development of Cities

(52)

Gig@city: The Rise of Technological Networks in Daily Life

(17)

Dominique Lorrain

``Internetting'' Downtown San Francisco: Digital Space Meets Urban Place

(16)

Stephen Graham

Simon Guy

Urban Space and the Development of Networks: A Discussion of the ``Splintering Urbanism'' Thesis

(17)

Olivier Coutard

Part II Risks, Crises and the Dependence of Cities upon Networks

(36)

Social Implications of Infrastructure Network Interactions

(19)

Rae Zimmerman

When Networks are Destabilized: User Innovation and the UK Fuel Crisis

(15)

Simon Marvin

Beth Perry

Part III Constructing and Deconstructing the Internet

101

(48)

Internet: The Social Construction of a ``Network Ideology''

103

(14)

Patrice Flichy

The Diffusion of Information and Communication Technologies in Lower-Income Groups: Cabinas De Internet in Lima, Peru

117

(18)

Ana Maria Fernandez-Maldonado

Living in a Network Society: The Imperative to Connect

135

(14)

Sally Wyatt

Part IV Networks and Sustainable Access to Water

149

(54)

Conflicts and the Rise of Users' Participation in the Buenos Aires Water Supply Concession, 1993--2003

151

(21)

Graciela Schneier-Madanes

Reforming the Municipal Water Supply Service in Delhi: Institutional and Organizational Issues

172

(16)

Marie Llorente

Not Too Much But Not Too Little: The Sustainability of Urban Water Services in New York, Paris and New Delhi

188

(15)

Bernard Barraque

Part V Networks as Institutions

203

(28)

Networks and the Subversion of Choice: An Institutionalist Manifesto

205

(26)

Gene I. Rochlin

Afterword After Words

231

(2)

Seymour J. Mandelbaum

Author Index

233

(2)

Subject Index

235

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Sustaining Urban Networks: The Social Diffusion of Large Technical Systems

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