Networked Cities Series

Personal Mobilities

By Aharon Kellerman

Series: Networked Cities Series

Living in a contemporary developed society means having access to a myriad of ways to communicate. One can either use public or private transport to meet others and talk face to face, or use a variety of communication networks, like mobile or fixed telephones or the internet, to travel virtually....

Published July 12th 2012 by Routledge

Mobile Technologies of the City

Edited by Mimi Sheller, John Urry

Series: Networked Cities Series

Mobile communications technologies are taking off across the world, while urban transportation and surveillance systems are also being rebuilt and updated. Emergent practices of physical, informational and communicational mobility are reconfiguring patterns of movement, co-presence, social...

Published July 12th 2012 by Routledge

Urban and Regional Technology Planning

Planning Practice in the Global Knowledge Economy

By Kenneth E. Corey, Mark Wilson

Series: Networked Cities Series

Part of the popular Networked Cities series, Urban and Regional Technology Planning focuses on the practice of relational planning and the stimulation of local city-regional scale development planning in the context of the global knowledge economy and network society. Designed to offer scholars,...

Published May 7th 2006 by Routledge

The Network Society

A New Context for Planning

Edited by Louis Albrechts, Seymour Mandelbaum

Series: Networked Cities Series

In a clear and rewarding style, Albrechts and Mandelbaum consider the challenges that the new paradigm of the Network Society creates for Urban and Regional Planning. Chapters grouped into five themes discuss theoretical and practical perspectives on the contemporary organization of social,...

Published October 18th 2005 by Routledge

Sustaining Urban Networks

The Social Diffusion of Large Technical Systems

Edited by Olivier Coutard, Richard Hanley, Rae Zimmerman

Series: Networked Cities Series

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

Published December 8th 2004 by Routledge

Digital Infrastructures

Enabling Civil and Environmental Systems through Information Technology

Edited by Thomas Horan, Rae Zimmerman

Series: Networked Cities Series

An invisible network of digital technology systems underlies the highly visible networks of roads, waterways, satellites, and power-lines. Increasingly, these systems are becoming the "infrastructure's infrastructure," providing a crucial array of data on network demand, performance, reliability,...

Published September 1st 2004 by Routledge

Moving People, Goods and Information in the 21st Century

The Cutting-Edge Infrastructures of Networked Cities

Edited by Richard Hanley

Series: Networked Cities Series

Globalisation and technological innovation have changed the way people, goods, and information move through and about cities. To remain, or become, economically and environmentally sustainable, cities and their regions must adapt to these changes by creating cutting-edge infrastructures that...

Published December 17th 2003 by Routledge