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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Ignacio Farías , Thomas BenderPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.580kg ISBN: 9780415692052ISBN 10: 0415692059 Pages: 352 Publication Date: 17 August 2011 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction Section 1: Towards a Flat Ontology? 1. Gelleable Spaces, Eventful Geographies: the Case of Santiago's Experimental Music Scene 2. Globalizations Big and Small: Notes on Urban Studies, Actor-network Theory, and Geographical Scale 3. Urban Studies without ‘scale’: Localizing the Global Through Singapore 4. Assembling Asturias: Scaling Devices and Cultural Leverage Section 2: A Non-Human Urban Ecology 5. How do we Co-Produce Urban Transport Systems and the City? The Case of Transmilenio and Bogotá 6. Changing Obdurate Urban Objects: The Attempts to Reconstruct the Highway through Maastricht 7. Mutable Immobiles. Building Conversion as a Problem of Quasi-Technologies 8. Conviction and Commotion: On Soundspheres, Technopolitics and Urban Space Section 3: The Multiple City 9. The Reality of Urban Tourism: Framed Activity and Virtual Ontology 10. Assembling Money and the Senses. Revisiting Georg Simmel and the City 11. The City as Value Locus: Markets, Technologies, and the Problem of Worth 12. Second Empire, Second Nature, Secondary World: Verne and Baudelaire in the Capital of the Nineteenth Century Postscript: Re-Assembling the City. Networks and Urban ImaginariesReviewsAuthor InformationThomas Bender is University Professor and Professor of History at New York University. He is a historian of the United States. His books include Toward an Urban Vision, The Unfinished City and he has coedited Urban Imaginaries. He also writes on urban design and development issues for various publications, including The New York Times and the Harvard Design Magazine Ignacio Faras holds a PhD in European Anthropology of the Humboldt University of Berlin, is Senior Research Fellow of the Social Science Research Center Berlin and Associate Researcher at the Diego Portales University in Santiago de Chile. His main research topics include social and cultural theory, cultural urban studies, economic sociology and anthropology of tourism Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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