Urban assemblages
Subtitle: how actor-network theory changes urban studies
By: Ignacio Farias and Thomas Bender.
Contributors: Bender, Thomas.
Series: Questioning cities
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780415486620; 9780203870631
Subjects: Cities and towns -- Growth
Description: This study proposes - and its various chapters offer demonstrations - importing into urban studies a body of theories, concepts, and perspectives developed in the field of science and technology studies (STS) and, more specifically, Actor-Network Theory (ANT).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Gelleable spaces, eventful geographies : the case of Santiago's experimental music scene / Manuel Tironi; title: Globalizations big and small : notes on urban studies, actor-network theory, and geographical scale / Alan Latham and Derek McCormack; title: Urban studies without "scale" : localizing the global through Singapore / Richard G. Smith; title: Assembling asturias : scaling devices and cultural leverage / Don Slater and Tomas Ariztía; title: Interview with Nigel Thrift / Ignacio Farías; title: How do we co-produce urban transport systems and the city? : the case of Transmilenio and Bogotá / Andrés Valderrama Pineda; title: Changing obdurate urban objects : the attempts to reconstruct the highway through Maastricht / Anique Hommels; title: Mutable immobiles : building conversion as a problem of quasi-technologies / Michael Guggenheim; title: Conviction and commotion : on soundspheres, technopolitics, and urban space / Israel Rodríguez Giralt, Daniel López Gómez and Noel García López; title: Interview with Stephen Graham / Ignacio Farías; title: The reality of urban tourism : framed activity and virtual ontology / Ignacio Farías; title: Assembling money and the senses : revisiting Georg Simmel and the city / Michael Schillmeier; title: The city as value locus : markets, technologies, and the problem of worth / Caitlin Zaloom; title: Second empire, second nature, secondary world : Verne and Baudelaire in the capital of the nineteenth century / Rosalind Williams; title: Interview with Robert Shields / Ignacio Farías.