| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
The networked cities series |
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Networked cities series.
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| Contents |
Network systems revisited : the confounding nature of universal systems / Olivier Coutard, Richard E. Hanley, and Rae Zimmerman -- Gig@city : the rise of technological networks in daily life / Dominique Lorrain -- "Internetting" downtown San Francisco : digital space meets urban place / Stephen Graham and Simon Guy -- Urban space and the development of networks : a discussion of the "splintering urbanism" thesis / Olivier Coutard -- Social implications of infrastructure network interactions / Rae Zimmerman -- When networks are destabilized : user innovation and the UK fuel crisis / Simon Marvin and Beth Perry -- Internet : the social construction of a "network ideology" / Patrice Flichy -- The diffusion of information and communication technologies in lower-income groups : cabinas de internet in Lima, Peru / Ana María Fernaandez-Maldonado -- Living in a network society : the imperative to connect / Sally Wyatt -- Conflicts and the rise of users' participation in the Buenos Aires water supply concession, 1993-2003 / Graciela Schneier-Madanes -- Reforming the municipal water supply service in Delhi : institutional and organizational issues / Marie Llorente -- Not too much but not too little : the sustainability of urban water services in New York, Paris and New Delhi / Bernard Barraque -- Networks and the subversion of choice : an institutionalist manifesto / Gene I. Rochlin -- After words / Seymour J. Mandelbaum |
| Summary |
Taking sustainability in its triple economic, environmental and social dimensions, the contributors take stock of previous research on large technical systems and discuss their sustainability from three main perspectives: uses, cities |
| Notes |
Papers presented at a roundtable conference held in New York City in 2001 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Infrastructure (Economics) -- Social aspects -- Congresses
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Technological innovations -- Social aspects -- Congresses
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Public utilities -- Congresses
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Municipal services -- Congresses
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
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Infrastructure (Economics) -- Social aspects
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Municipal services
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Public utilities
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Technological innovations -- Social aspects
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Coutard, Olivier, 1965-
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Hanley, Richard E. (Richard Eugene)
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Zimmerman, Rae.
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| ISBN |
0203357116 |
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9780203357118 |
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0203669584 |
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9780203669587 |
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9786610402953 |
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6610402957 |
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9781134345700 |
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1134345704 |
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9781134345656 |
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1134345658 |
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9781134345694 |
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1134345690 |
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1280402954 |
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9781280402951 |
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