The city as sociotechnical process Networked mobilities and urban social inequalities

What are the prospects for cities, urbanisation, even civilisation? In this new, (occasional) section, we present retrospects on major work that seeks to alert us to key developments. In this instance, the authors themselves introduce their work. Stephen Graham, drawing on his recent book (with Simon Marvin), Splintering Urbanism: Networked Infrastructures, Technological Mobilities, and the Urban Condition (2001), is concerned with sociotechnical developments and their relationship to social polarisation. Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson, drawing on their jointly-edited Companion to the City (2001), put forward a critical and comprehensive account of urban developments and analysis from urban imaginings, through the economy, division and difference, public and everyday space, to urban interventions.

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[2]  B. Warf.  Splintering Urbanism: Networked Infrastructures, Technological Mobilities, and the Urban Condition , 2003 .

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[9]  Michael Batty.  The Geography of Cyberspace , 1993 .

[10]  Dan Schiller,et al.  Deep impact: the Web and the changing media economy , 1999 .

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[16]  Maria Kaika,et al.  Fetishising the Modern City: the Phantasmagoria of Urban Technological Networks , 2000 .