Urban assemblages : how actor-network theory changes urban studies / edited by Ignacio Farías and Thomas Bender.
| Other author | Farias, Ignacio, 1978- |
| Other author | Bender, Thomas, 1944- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | London ; New York : Routledge, 2010. |
| Description | xvi, 333 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Questioning cities Questioning cities series. ^A583196 |
| Contents | Gelleable spaces, eventful geographies : the case of Santiago's experimental music scene / Manuel Tironi -- Globalizations big and small : notes on urban studies, actor-network theory, and geographical scale / Alan Latham and Derek McCormack -- Urban studies without "scale" : localizing the global through Singapore / Richard G. Smith -- Assembling asturias : scaling devices and cultural leverage / Don Slater and Tomas Ariztía -- Interview with Nigel Thrift / Ignacio Farías -- How do we co-produce urban transport systems and the city? : the case of Transmilenio and Bogotá / Andrés Valderrama Pineda -- Changing obdurate urban objects : the attempts to reconstruct the highway through Maastricht / Anique Hommels -- Mutable immobiles : building conversion as a problem of quasi-technologies / Michael Guggenheim -- Conviction and commotion : on soundspheres, technopolitics, and urban space / Israel Rodríguez Giralt, Daniel López Gómez and Noel García López -- Interview with Stephen Graham / Ignacio Farías -- The reality of urban tourism : framed activity and virtual ontology / Ignacio Farías -- Assembling money and the senses : revisiting Georg Simmel and the city / Michael Schillmeier -- The city as value locus : markets, technologies, and the problem of worth / Caitlin Zaloom -- Second empire, second nature, secondary world : Verne and Baudelaire in the capital of the nineteenth century / Rosalind Williams -- Interview with Rob Shields / Ignacio Farías. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2009010537 |
| ISBN | 9780415486620 (hbk) |
| ISBN | 0415486629 (hbk) |
| ISBN | 9780203870631 (ebk) |
| ISBN | 0203870638 (ebk) |