
This Study Proposes - And Its Various Chapters Offer Demonstrations - Importing Into Urban Studies A Body Of Theories, Concepts, And Perspectives Developed In The Field Of Science And Technology Studies (sts) And, More Specifically, Actor-network Theory (ant). 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. Edited By Ignacio Farías And Thomas Bender. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.
Page Count:
352
Publication Date:
2009-01-01
ISBN-10:
0203870638
ISBN-13:
9780203870631
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