The connected city : how networks are shaping the modern metropolis
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The connected city : how networks are shaping the modern metropolis
(Metropolis and modern life)(A Routledge series)
Routledge, 2013
- : pbk
- : hbk
Available at 10 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies Library (GRIPS Library)
: hbk361.78||N6101303373
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-252) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Connected City explores how thinking about networks helps make sense of modern cities: what they are, how they work, and where they are headed. Cities and urban life can be examined as networks, and these urban networks can be examined at many different levels.
The book focuses on three levels of urban networks: micro, meso, and macro. These levels build upon one another, and require distinctive analytical approaches that make it possible to consider different types of questions. At one extreme, micro-urban networks focus on the networks that exist within cities, like the social relationships among neighbors that generate a sense of community and belonging. At the opposite extreme, macro-urban networks focus on networks between cities, like the web of nonstop airline flights that make face-to-face business meetings possible.
This book contains three major sections organized by the level of analysis and scale of network. Throughout these sections, when a new methodological concept is introduced, a separate 'method note' provides a brief and accessible introduction to the practical issues of using networks in research. What makes this book unique is that it synthesizes the insights and tools of the multiple scales of urban networks, and integrates the theory and method of network analysis.
Table of Contents
- Chapter 1 Introduction: Why Cities? Why Networks?
- Part 1 Micro-urban Networks: Networks Within Cities
- Chapter 2 Community: Lost or Found
- Chapter 3 Subculture: Finding Your Crowd in a Crowd
- Chapter 4 Politics: We Don't Want Nobody Nobody Sent
- Part 2 Meso-urban Networks: Cities as Networks
- Chapter 5 Form: Getting From Here to There
- Chapter 6 Function: Working Together
- Part 3 Macro-urban Networks: Networks of Cities
- Chapter 7 Regional: From City to Metropolis
- Chapter 8 National: The Action is in Cities, But Also Between Them
- Chapter 9 Global: Nylon Holds the World Together
- Chapter 10 Conclusion: The New Science of Urban Networks
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