Mobile Technologies of the City (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Sheller, Mimi; Urry, John

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Mobile communications technologies and urban transportation and surveillance systems worldwide are evolving and developing. This is one of the first studies to examine these phenomenon in relation to each other, in cities across three continents.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134189748
• Artikelnr.: 42640895

Autorenporträt

Mimi Sheller is Visiting Associate Professor at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania and Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Mobilities Research at Lancaster University, England. She is the author of Democracy After Slavery (2000) and Consuming the Caribbean (2003), and co-editor of Uprootings/Regroundings (2003) and Tourism Mobilitites (2004). She is also co-editor of the new Routledge journal Mobilities. John Urry is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for Mobilities Research, Lancaster University. Recent books include Sociology beyond Societies (2000), The Tourist Gaze (1990/2002), Global Complexity (2003), Tourism Mobilities (co-edited; 2004), Automobilities (coedited; 2005). He is also co-editor of the new Routledge journal Mobilities.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Mobile Cities, Urban Mobilities Part 1: Mobilities and the
Creation of Urban Spatial Form 2. The Linear City: Touring Vienna in the
Nineteenth Century 3. Between the Physical and the Virtual: Connected
Mobilities? 4. Urban Violence: Luxury in Made Space Part 2: Re-Configuring
Co-Presence 5. Bypassing and WAPing: Reconfiguring Timetables for
'Real-Time' Mobility 6. Reshaping Patterns of Mobility and Exclusion? The
Impact of Virtual Mobility upon Acesssibility, Mobility and Social
Exclusion 7. Twin Towers and Amoy Gardens: Mobilities, Risks and Choices
Part 3: Cultures of Infrastructure and Public Space 8. From Café to
Parkbench: Wi-Fi and Technological Overflows in the City 9. ICTs and the
Engineering of Encounters: A Case Study of the Development of a Mobile Game
Based on the Geolocation of Terminals 10. Permeable Boundaries in the
Software-Sorted Society: Surveillance and Differentiations of Mobility