Sustaining Urban Networks

<p>Considering sustainability in its economic, environmental and social contexts, the contributors take stock of previous research on large technical systems and discuss their sustainability from three main perspectives: uses, cities, and rules and institutions.</p> <p><strong>Part 1. Networks and the Development of Cities.</strong> Chapter 2. Gig@City: The Rise of Technological Networks in Daily Life. Chapter 3. "Internetting" Downtown San Francisco: Digital Space Meets Urban Place. Chapter 4. Urban Space and the Development of Networks: A Discussion of the "Splintering Urbanism" Thesis. <strong>Part 2. Risks, Crises and the Dependence of Cities Upon Networks. </strong> Chapter 5. Social Implications of Infrastructure Network Interactions. Chapter 6. When Networks are Destabilized: User Innovation and the Uk Fuel Crisis. <strong> Part 3. Constructing and Deconstructing the Internet.</strong> Chapter 7. Internet: The Social Construction of a "Network Ideology". Chapter 8. The Diffusion of Information And Communication Technologies in Lower-Income Groups: Cabinas De Internet In Lima, Peru. Chapter 9. Living in a Network Society: The Imperative to Connect. <strong>Part 4. Networks and Sustainable Access to Water.</strong> Chapter 10. Conflicts and the Rise of Users' Participation in the Buenos Aires Water Supply Concession, 1993-2003. Chapter 11. Reforming the Municipal Water Supply Service in Delhi:Institutional and Organizational Issues. Chapter 12. Not too Much but Not too Little: The Sustainability of Urban Water Services in New York, Paris, and New Delhi. <strong>Part 5. Networks as Institutions.</strong> Chapter 13. Networks and the Subversion Of Choice: An Institutionalist Manifesto</p>