Splintering Urbanism makes an international and interdisciplinary analysis of the complex
interactions between infrastructure networks and urban spaces. It delivers a new and …

ABSTRACT Advocates of New Urbanist and neo-traditional planning concepts include street
connectivity as a key component for good neighborhood design. Street networks that are …

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 …

This book challenges the conventional (modernist-inspired) understanding of urbanization
as a universal process tied to the ideal-typical model of the modern metropolis with its …

This article argues that standardized, public or private infrastructure monopolies are
receding as hegemonic forms of urban infrastructure development. We are starting to …

The aim of this article is to explore new ways of integrating technology, nature and
infrastructures into urban public spaces. This is done through a case study, the design of …

After electricity was first introduced in the 1880s in the United States and Europe, its use
expanded dramatically throughout the world, transforming almost every aspect of daily life. It …

Drawing on a body of research covering primarily Europe and the Americas, but stretching
also to Asia and Africa, from the mid-eighteenth century to the present, this book explores …

Consideration of technology is important for understanding the driving forces of human
induced land-use and land-cover changes (LUCC). However, technological driving forces …

Over the past 15 or 20 years, telecommunications and information technologies (IT) have
become more intensely bound up than ever before in the social, economic, political and …