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'Both interesting and important. It addresses the notion of the network city in a profound way ... a promising and fruitful approach.' - Journal of Housing and the Built Environment
'Splintering Urbanism is a significant work and achievement, bringing together a tremendous amount of research on networks and urban technologies and putting them in one 'manual' or 'guide', whilst at the same time providing an authoritative view of implications and limitations of the 'splintering' process ... it should earn a position as an essential item in any up-to-date reading list.' - Urban Studies
'Splintering Urbanism is a significant work and achievement, bringing together a tremendous amount of research on networks and urban technologies and putting them in one 'manual' or 'guide', whilst at the same time providing an authoritative view of implications and limitations of the 'splintering' process ... it should earn a position as an essential item in any up-to-date reading list.' - Urban Studies
Manuel Castells, University of California at Berkeley
Graham and Marvin's Splintering Urbanism is the first analytical geography of the network society. It skilfully blends up-to-date information on metropolitan development, theoretical insights, and a good knowledge of debates in the field. It demonstrates that electronic-based networks segregate as much as they connect, and they do so selectively. It is required reading for students of spatial transformation, on the cutting edge of research in urban studies.
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During the period between about 1850 and 1960 there was a general movement, particularly in Western cities, from the piecemeal and fragmented provision of networked infrastructures to an emphasis on centralised and standardised systems. Read the first page
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During the period between about 1850 and 1960 there was a general movement, particularly in Western cities, from the piecemeal and fragmented provision of networked infrastructures to an emphasis on centralised and standardised systems. Read the first page
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Graham and Marvin change the way we look at the city. Borrowing from architecture, geography, urban planning and sociology they demonstrate how infrastructure, mobility and urban life are intertwined in messy, fragmented configurations. Splintering Urbanism illustrates the increasingly segregated city, describing the unequal access to infrastructures of energy, information and transport - where providing corporations 'cherry pick' the most
potentially profitable users. The books major value is its integration of a corpus of diverse theoretical and practical approaches to the urban. This book is likely to reinvent the imagining of the city for academics, planners and architects alike.
potentially profitable users. The books major value is its integration of a corpus of diverse theoretical and practical approaches to the urban. This book is likely to reinvent the imagining of the city for academics, planners and architects alike.
essential reading for anyone interested in the development of technology and contemporary urban society
30 May 2010
Format:Paperback
Superb and detailed analysis of complex issues to do with the Network Society and urban environments, yet accessibly written. I'm finding it indispensable in my studies.
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19 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Aggravating
6 Jan 2005
Format:Paperback
This explores the sociopolitical causes and ramifications in the development of modern infrastructure. But due to continual stating and restating of simple points, a reader loses track of what the authors are attempting to train his attention on. With all the research the authors have done on the subject matter, you might expect that; but it could take you a year of poring over this to get the full thrust of this. It certainly isn't concise.
The books real problem is the writing style. The text is a hybrid of bureaucratic and academic writing, defensively constructed to obviate charges of ambiguity or assumption. Here's a typical sentence:
"Thus we could argue that the supplementation of state forms of collectivised infrastructure development that supported the modern ideal with privatised regimes that need to attract international finance capital seems very likely to support the splintering of integrated and bundled networks into a myriad of individually financed and managed infrastructure projects."
You can go a few pages before encountering a sentence that hasn't been overworked like this. Torpid.
The other big problem is it's design. What you get out of it will depend on whether you can overcome the disruptive format. Just when you've finally bit into a passage of that writing, a new heading in boldface interrupts both the text and your concentration. This occurs once or twice a page for 400 pages. It isn't helpful. Is this a book, or is it six hundred short articles? Frequent sidebars also induce reader distraction.
The books real problem is the writing style. The text is a hybrid of bureaucratic and academic writing, defensively constructed to obviate charges of ambiguity or assumption. Here's a typical sentence:
"Thus we could argue that the supplementation of state forms of collectivised infrastructure development that supported the modern ideal with privatised regimes that need to attract international finance capital seems very likely to support the splintering of integrated and bundled networks into a myriad of individually financed and managed infrastructure projects."
You can go a few pages before encountering a sentence that hasn't been overworked like this. Torpid.
The other big problem is it's design. What you get out of it will depend on whether you can overcome the disruptive format. Just when you've finally bit into a passage of that writing, a new heading in boldface interrupts both the text and your concentration. This occurs once or twice a page for 400 pages. It isn't helpful. Is this a book, or is it six hundred short articles? Frequent sidebars also induce reader distraction.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
reworking urban thinking
13 April 2002
Format:Paperback
Graham and Marvin change the way we look at the city. Borrowing from architecture, geography, urban planning and sociology they demonstrate how infrastructure, mobility and urban life are intertwined in messy, fragmented configurations. Splintering Urbanism illustrates the increasingly segregated city, describing the unequal access to infrastructures of energy, information and transport - where providing corporations `cherry pick' the most potentially profitable users. The books major value is its integration of a corpus of diverse theoretical and practical approaches to the urban. This book is likely to reinvent the imagining of the city for academics, planners and architects alike.
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