| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
The networked cities series
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Networked cities series.
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| Note |
Papers presented at a roundtable conference held in New York City in 2001. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| 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 -- 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Infrastructure (Economics) -- Social aspects -- Congresses.
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Infrastructure (Economics) -- Social aspects. |
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Infrastructure (Economics) |
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Technological innovations -- Social aspects -- Congresses.
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Technological innovations -- Social aspects. |
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Public utilities -- Congresses.
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Public utilities. |
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Municipal services -- Congresses.
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Municipal services. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Coutard, Olivier, 1965-
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Hanley, Richard E. (Richard Eugene)
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Zimmerman, Rae.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sustaining urban networks. London ; New York : Routledge, 2005 0415324580 (DLC) 2004008078 (OCoLC)54929425 |
| ISBN |
0203357116 (electronic book) |
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9780203357118 (electronic book) |
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0203669584 (Adobe eReader format) |
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9780203669587 (Adobe eReader format) |
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0415324580 (hardback) |
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9780415324588 (hardback) |
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0415324599 (paperback) |
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9780415324595 (paperback) |
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