Connected City How Networks Are Shaping the Modern Metropolis

Name: Connected City How Networks Are Shaping the Modern Metropolis
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ISBN: 9780415881425

ISBN-10: 0415881420

ISBN-13: 9780415881425

Edition: 2013

Authors: Zachary P. Neal

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Public spaces have long been the focus of urban social activity, but investigations of how public space works often adopt only one of several possible perspectives, which restricts the questions that can be asked and the answers that can be considered. In this volume, Anthony Orum and Zachary Neal explore how public space can be a facilitator of civil order, a site for power and resistance, and a stage for art, theatre, and performance. They bring together these frequently unconnected models for understanding public space, collecting classic and contemporary readings that illustrate each, and synthesizing them in a series of original essays. Throughout, they offer questions to provoke…

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List price: $29.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 9/27/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

University of Illinois, Chicago USA



List of Method Notes


List of Figures


Foreword



Introduction: Why Cities? Why Networks?



Micro-Urban Networks: Networks within Cities



Community: Lost or Found



Subculture: Finding Your Crowd in a Crowd



Politics: We Don't Want Nobody Sent



Meso-Urban Networks: Cities as Networks



Form: Getting from Here to There



Function: Working Together



Macro-Urban Networks: Networks of Cities



Regional: From City to Metropolis



National: The Action is in Cities, but also Between Them



Global: Nylon Holds the World Together



Conclusion: The New Science of Urban Networks


Notes


References and Suggested Reading


Index