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The Connected City : How Networks Are Shaping the Modern Metropolis.

Av: Materialtyp: TextSerie: Utgivningsuppgift: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2012Datum för upphovsrätt: ©2013Utgåva: 1st edBeskrivning: 1 online resource (273 pages)Innehållstyp:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781136236662
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  • 303.48/3
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Cover -- The Connected City -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Method Notes -- Figures -- Foreword -- 1: Introduction: Why Cities? Why Networks? -- What Are Networks? -- Not a Book about 'Networks' -- Theory or Methodology? -- Organization -- Micro-urban Networks -- Meso-urban Networks -- Macro-urban networks -- Acknowledgements -- Part One: Micro-urban Networks: Net Works Within Cities -- 2: Community: Lost or Found -- Community Lost -- Community as Place, Population, or Pattern -- Community Saved -- Community Liberated -- Communities at the Edge -- Putting Community Networks to Work -- Discussion Questions and Activities -- 3: Subculture: Finding Your Crowd in a Crowd -- The Foundations of Urban Subculture -- The Network Is the Subculture -- Social Circles in the City -- The Ethnic Enclave -- Discussion Questions and Activities -- 4: Politics:We Don't Want Nobody Nobody Sent -- The Community Power Debate -- Quid Pro Quo -- Strength in Numbers -- Everyday Action -- The Politics of Networks -- Discussion Questions and Activities -- Part Two: Meso-urban Networks: Cities as Networks -- 5: Form: Getting Form Here to There -- Seeing the City as a Network -- It Helps to Have a Map -- The Planner's Role -- Living in a Network -- Discussion Questions and Activities -- Sources for Street Network Data -- 6: Function: Working Together -- A Network of Organizations -- It's All About the Resources -- Why Mayors Aren't Monarchs -- United We Stand . . . Sometimes -- Keeping the City Healthy -- Discussion Questions and Activities -- Sources for Interorganizational Network Data -- Part Three: Macro-urban Networks: Networks of Cities -- 7: Regional: From City to Metropolis -- What is a Metropolis? -- From Regional Theories to Regional Networks -- Two Downtowns Are Better than One -- The Real Actors -- Discussion Questions and Activities.
Sources for Regional Urban Network Data -- 8: National: The Action is in Cities, But Also Between Them -- National Urban Systems as Networks -- The Growth of a Networked Nation -- Going the Distance -- National Networks in a Global World -- Discussion Questions and Activities -- Sources for National Urban Network Data -- 9: Global: Nylon Holds the World Together -- A Long Time in the Making -- The Ties that Bind -- Cities of the World or World Cities -- It's Not Just the Economy, Stupid -- Discussion Questions and Activities -- Sources for Global Urban Network Data -- 10: Conclusion: The New Science of Urban Networks -- Big City, Small World -- The Power of Urban Networks -- Communities Are Everywhere -- Discussion Questions and Activities -- Notes -- References and Suggested Reading -- Index.
Sammanfattning: The Connected City explores how thinking about networks helps make sense of modern cities: what they are, how they work, and where they are headed. Cities and urban life can be examined as networks, and these urban networks can be examined at many different levels. This book focuses on three levels of urban networks: micro, meso, and macro.
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Cover -- The Connected City -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Method Notes -- Figures -- Foreword -- 1: Introduction: Why Cities? Why Networks? -- What Are Networks? -- Not a Book about 'Networks' -- Theory or Methodology? -- Organization -- Micro-urban Networks -- Meso-urban Networks -- Macro-urban networks -- Acknowledgements -- Part One: Micro-urban Networks: Net Works Within Cities -- 2: Community: Lost or Found -- Community Lost -- Community as Place, Population, or Pattern -- Community Saved -- Community Liberated -- Communities at the Edge -- Putting Community Networks to Work -- Discussion Questions and Activities -- 3: Subculture: Finding Your Crowd in a Crowd -- The Foundations of Urban Subculture -- The Network Is the Subculture -- Social Circles in the City -- The Ethnic Enclave -- Discussion Questions and Activities -- 4: Politics:We Don't Want Nobody Nobody Sent -- The Community Power Debate -- Quid Pro Quo -- Strength in Numbers -- Everyday Action -- The Politics of Networks -- Discussion Questions and Activities -- Part Two: Meso-urban Networks: Cities as Networks -- 5: Form: Getting Form Here to There -- Seeing the City as a Network -- It Helps to Have a Map -- The Planner's Role -- Living in a Network -- Discussion Questions and Activities -- Sources for Street Network Data -- 6: Function: Working Together -- A Network of Organizations -- It's All About the Resources -- Why Mayors Aren't Monarchs -- United We Stand . . . Sometimes -- Keeping the City Healthy -- Discussion Questions and Activities -- Sources for Interorganizational Network Data -- Part Three: Macro-urban Networks: Networks of Cities -- 7: Regional: From City to Metropolis -- What is a Metropolis? -- From Regional Theories to Regional Networks -- Two Downtowns Are Better than One -- The Real Actors -- Discussion Questions and Activities.

Sources for Regional Urban Network Data -- 8: National: The Action is in Cities, But Also Between Them -- National Urban Systems as Networks -- The Growth of a Networked Nation -- Going the Distance -- National Networks in a Global World -- Discussion Questions and Activities -- Sources for National Urban Network Data -- 9: Global: Nylon Holds the World Together -- A Long Time in the Making -- The Ties that Bind -- Cities of the World or World Cities -- It's Not Just the Economy, Stupid -- Discussion Questions and Activities -- Sources for Global Urban Network Data -- 10: Conclusion: The New Science of Urban Networks -- Big City, Small World -- The Power of Urban Networks -- Communities Are Everywhere -- Discussion Questions and Activities -- Notes -- References and Suggested Reading -- Index.

The Connected City explores how thinking about networks helps make sense of modern cities: what they are, how they work, and where they are headed. Cities and urban life can be examined as networks, and these urban networks can be examined at many different levels. This book focuses on three levels of urban networks: micro, meso, and macro.

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