Sustaining urban networks : the social diffusion of large technical systems

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.

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Coutard, Olivier; Hanley, Richard; Zimmerman, Rae

Acknowledgments	p. xiv
Introduction	p. 1
Part I Networks and the Development of Cities	p. 13
Chapter 1 Gig@City: the Rise of Technological Networks in Daily Life	p. 15
Chapter 2 "internetting" Downtown San Francisco: Digital Space Meets Urban Place	p. 32
Chapter 3 Urban Space and the Development of Networks: a Discussion of the "splintering Urbanism" Thesis	p. 48
Part II Risks, Crises and the Dependence of Cities Upon Networks	p. 65
Chapter 4 Social Implications of Infrastructure Network Interactions	p. 67
Chapter 5 When Networks Are Destabilized: User Innovation and the Uk Fuel Crisis	p. 86
Part III Constructing and Deconstructing the Internet	p. 101
Chapter 6 Internet: the Social Construction of a "network Ideology"	p. 103
Chapter 7 The Diffusion of Information and Communication Technologies in Lower-Income Groups: Cabinas De Internet in Lima, Peru	p. 117
Chapter 8 Living in a Network Society: the Imperative to Connect	p. 135
Part IV Networks and Sustainable Access to Water	p. 149
Chapter 9 Conflicts and the Rise of Users' Participation in the Buenos Aires Water Supply Concession, 1993-2003	p. 151
Chapter 10 Reforming the Municipal Water Supply Service in Delhi: Institutional and Organizational Issues	p. 172
Chapter 11 Not Too Much but Not Too Little: the Sustainability of Urban Water Services in New York, Paris and New Delhi	p. 188
Part V Networks as Institutions	p. 203
Chapter 12 Networks and the Subversion of Choice: an Institutionalist Manifesto	p. 205
Author Index	p. 233
Subject Index	p. 235

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