Urban Assemblages

Auteur

Thomas 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

Texte du rabat

This book 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).

Contenu

Introduction 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 Imaginaries