ISBN:
9780415881425
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (273 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
The Metropolis and Modern Life
Parallel Title:
Print version The Connected City : How Networks are Shaping the Modern Metropolis
DDC:
303.48/3
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
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.The book focuses on three levels of urban networks: micro, meso, and macro. These levels build upon one another, and require distinctive analytical approaches that make it possible to consider different types of questions. At one extreme, micro-urban networks focus on the networks that exist within cities, like the
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Discussion Questions and Activities3: 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
Description / Table of Contents:
Living in a NetworkDiscussion 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
Description / Table of Contents:
Sources for Regional Urban Network Data8: 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
Description / Table of Contents:
Big City, Small WorldThe Power of Urban Networks; Communities Are Everywhere; Discussion Questions and Activities; Notes; References and Suggested Reading; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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