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Mobile technologies of the city / edited by Mimi Sheller and John Urry - New York: Routledge, 2006 - viii, 200 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - The networked cities series . - Networked cities series. .

Introduction : mobile cities, urban mobilities / Mimi Sheller, John Urry -- The linear city : touring Vienna in the nineteenth century / Ulrike Spring -- Between the physical and the virtual : connected mobilities? / Peter Adey, Paul Bevan -- Urban violence : luxury in made space / Sarah S. Jain -- Bypassing and WAPing : reconfiguring timetables for 'real-time' mobility / Juliet Jain -- Reshaping patterns of mobility and exclusion? : the impact of virtual mobility upon acesssibility, mobility, and social exclusion / Susan Kenyon -- Twin Towers and Amoy Gardens : mobilities, risks and choices / Stephen Little -- From café to parkbench : Wi-Fi and technological overflows in the city / Adrian Mackenzie -- ICTs and the engineering of encounters : a case study of the development of a mobile game based on the geolocation of terminals / Christian Licoppe, Romain Guillot -- Permeable boundaries in the software-sorted society : surveillance and differentiations of mobility / David Wood, Stephen Graham.

Includes index

ISBN: 0415374340 9780415374347

LCCN: 2005023937

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA601377 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 013348463 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
City and town life.
City dwellers--Effect of technological innovations on.
Social mobility.
Information technology--Social aspects.
Mobile communication systems--Social aspects.
Urban transportation--Social aspects.
Movement (Philosophy)

LC Class. No.: HT 108 / .M63 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 307.76