Sustaining urban networks : the social diffusion of large technical systems

edited by Olivier Coutard, Richard E. Hanley, and Rae Zimmerman

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

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Year of publication:	2005
Other Persons:	Coutard, Olivier (contributor)
Publisher:	London : Routledge
Subject:	Innovationsdiffusion \| Innovation diffusion \| Soziales Netzwerk \| Social network \| Netzwerk \| Network
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [external.dandelon.com]

Extent:	Online-Ressource (xv, 239 p) ill., maps 24 cm
Series:	Networked Cities Ser. The networked cities series
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes Papers presented at a roundtable conference held in New York City in 2001 Book Cover; Title; Contents; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION Network Systems Revisited: The Confounding Nature of Universal Systems; Networks and the Development of Cities; Gigcity: The Rise of Technological Networks in Daily Life; ""Internetting"" Downtown San Francisco: Digital Space Meets Urban Place; Urban Space and the Development of Networks: A Discussion of the ""Splintering Urbanism"" Thesis; Risks, Crises and the Dependence of Cities upon Networks; Social Implications of Infrastructure Network Interactions When Networks are Destabilized: User Innovation and the UK Fuel CrisisConstructing and Deconstructing the Internet; Internet: The Social Construction of a ""Network Ideology""; The Diffusion of Information and Communication Technologies in Lower-Income Groups: Cabinas De Internet in Lima, Peru; Living in a Network Society: The Imperative to Connect; Networks and Sustainable Access to Water; Conflicts and the Rise of Users' Participation in the Buenos Aires Water Supply Concession, 1993-2003; Reforming the Municipal Water Supply Service in Delhi: Institutional and Organizational Issues Not Too Much But Not Too Little: The Sustainability of Urban Water Services in New York, Paris and New DelhiNetworks as Institutions; Networks and the Subversion of Choice: An Institutionalist Manifesto; AFTERWORD After Words; AUTHOR INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:	0-415-32458-0 ; 0-415-32459-9 ; 978-0-415-32458-8
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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