ABSTRACT
Considering sustainability in its economic, environmental and social contexts, the contributors take stock of previous research on large technical systems and discuss their sustainability from three main perspectives: uses, cities, and rules and institutions.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|52 pages
Networks and the Development of Cities
chapter Chapter Three|17 pages
Urban Space and the Development of Networks: A Discussion of the “Splintering Urbanism” Thesis
part II|35 pages
Risks, Crises and the Dependence of Cities upon Networks
part III|48 pages
Constructing and Deconstructing the Internet
chapter Chapter Seven|18 pages
The Diffusion of Information and Communication Technologies in Lower-Income Groups: Cabinas de Internet in Lima, Peru
part IV|54 pages
Networks and Sustainable Access to Water
chapter Chapter Nine|21 pages
Conflicts and the Rise of Users' Participation in the Buenos Aires Water Supply Concession, 1993–2003
chapter Chapter Ten|16 pages
Reforming the Municipal Water Supply Service in Delhi: Institutional and Organizational Issues
chapter Chapter Eleven|15 pages
Not Too Much But Not Too Little: The Sustainability of Urban Water Services in New York, Paris and New Delhi
part V|30 pages
Networks as Institutions
