Mobile Technologies of the City

by Sheller; Mimi

• ISBN13: 9780415374347
• ISBN10: 0415374340
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-04-12
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Mobile communications technologies are joining new systems of urban transportation, surveillance, scheduling and sorting to quietly but dramatically change the social, architectural and infrastructural fabric of cities across the world. Urbanism has always been in flux, but now more so than ever, as many aspects of economic and social life are increasingly conducted 'on the move' or away from 'home'. Emergent forms of physical and informational mobility are changing and influencing patterns of movement, co-presence, social exclusion and security across many urban contexts.

Table of Contents

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS	vii
CHAPTER ONE Introduction: Mobile Cities, Urban Mobilities	1	(18)
Mimi Sheller and John Urry
PART I Mobilities and the Creation of Urban Spatial Form	19	(58)
CHAPTER TWO The Linear City: Touring Vienna in the Nineteenth Century	21	(23)
Ulrike Spring
CHAPTER THREE Between the Physical and the Virtual: Connected Mobilities?	44	(17)
Peter Adey and Paul Bevan
CHAPTER FOUR Urban Violence: Luxury in Made Space	61	(16)
Sarah S. Jain
PART II Re-configuring Co-presence	77	(58)
CHAPTER FIVE Bypassing and WAPing: Reconfiguring Timetables for 'Real-time' Mobility	79	(23)
Juliet Jain
CHAPTER SIX Reshaping Patterns of Mobility and Exclusion? The Impact of Virtual Mobility upon Accessibility, Mobility and Social Exclusion	102	(19)
Susan Kenyon
CHAPTER SEVEN Twin Towers and Amoy Gardens: Mobilities, Risks and Choices	121	(14)
Stephen Little
PART III Cultures of Infrastructure and Public Space	135	(57)
CHAPTER EIGHT From Café to Park Bench: Wi-Fi® and Technological Overflows in the City	137	(15)
Adrian Mackenzie
CHAPTER NINE ICTs and the Engineering of Encounters: A Case Study of the Development of a Mobile Game Based on the Geolocation of Terminals	152	(25)
Christian Licoppe and Romain Guillot
CHAPTER TEN Permeable Boundaries in the Software-sorted Society: Surveillance and Differentiations of Mobility	177	(15)
David Murakami Wood and Stephen Graham
INDEX	192