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Title Sustaining urban networks [electronic resource] : the social diffusion of large technical systems / edited by Olivier Coutard, Richard E. Hanley, and Rae Zimmerman.

Imprint London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.

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Description xv, 239 p. : ill., maps.
Series The networked cities series
Networked cities series.
Note Papers presented at a roundtable conference held in New York City in 2001.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents Network systems revisited : the confounding nature of universal systems / Olivier Coutard, Richard E. Hanley, and Rae Zimmerman -- Gig@city : the rise of technological networks in daily life / Dominique Lorrain -- "Internetting" downtown San Francisco : digital space meets urban place / Stephen Graham and Simon Guy -- Urban space and the development of networks : a discussion of the "splintering urbanism" thesis / Olivier Coutard -- Social implications of infrastructure network interactions / Rae Zimmerman -- When networks are destabilized : user innovation and the UK fuel crisis / Simon Marvin and Beth Perry -- Internet : the social construction of a "network ideology" / Patrice Flichy -- The diffusion of information and communication technologies in lower-income groups : cabinas de internet in Lima, Peru / Ana Maria Fernandez-Maldonado -- Living in a network society : the imperative to connect / Sally Wyatt -- Conflicts and the rise of users' participation in the Buenos Aires water supply concession, 1993-2003 / Graciela Schneier-Madanes -- Reforming the municipal water supply service in Delhi : institutional and organizational issues / Marie Llorente -- Not too much but not too little : the sustainability of urban water services in New York, Paris and New Delhi / Bernard Barraque -- Networks and the subversion of choice : an institutionalist manifesto / Gene I. Rochlin -- After words / Seymour J. Mandelbaum.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Infrastructure (Economics) -- Social aspects.
Technological innovations -- Social aspects.
Public utilities.
Municipal services.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Coutard, Olivier, 1965-
Hanley, Richard E. (Richard Eugene)
Zimmerman, Rae.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0415324580 (hbk.)
0415324599 (pbk.)

 
    
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