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Mobile technologies of the city /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Sheller, Mimi, Urry, John
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
Series:Networked cities series.
Subjects:
City and town life.
City dwellers > Effect of technological innovations on.
Social mobility.
Information technology > Social aspects.
Mobile communication systems > Social aspects.
Urban transportation > Social aspects.
Movement (Philosophy)
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : mobile cities, urban mobilities / Mimi Sheller, John Urry
  • The linear city : touring Vienna in the nineteenth century / Ulrike Spring
  • Between the physical and the virtual : connected mobilities? / Peter Adey, Paul Bevan
  • Urban violence : luxury in made space / Sarah S. Jain
  • Bypassing and WAPing : reconfiguring timetables for 'real-time' mobility / Juliet Jain
  • Reshaping patterns of mobility and exclusion? : the impact of virtual mobility upon acesssibility, mobility, and social exclusion / Susan Kenyon
  • Twin Towers and Amoy Gardens : mobilities, risks and choices / Stephen Little
  • From cafĂ© to parkbench : Wi-Fi and technological overflows in the city / Adrian Mackenzie
  • ICTs and the engineering of encounters : a case study of the development of a mobile game based on the geolocation of terminals / Christian Licoppe, Romain Guillot
  • Permeable boundaries in the software-sorted society : surveillance and differentiations of mobility / David Wood, Stephen Graham.