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FlowCity: Networked Mobilities and the Contemporary Metropolis

FlowCity: Networked Mobilities and the Contemporary Metropolis FlowCity: Networked Mobilities and the Contemporary Metropoli s 1 FlowCity: Networked Mobilities and the Contemporary Metropolis Stephen Graham National borders have ceased being continuous lines on the earth’s surface and [have] become nonrelated sets of lines and points Andreu “Borders and Borderers ” situated within each country (58). ONTEMPORARY cities can be understood as socio-tech- nical constructions supporting mobilities and flow to more Cor less distant elsewheres: flows of people, goods, services, information, capital, waste, water, meaning. According to Manuel Castells, as cities become enmeshed in what he calls the “variable geometry” of the internationalizing “Network Society,” so techno- logical and economic integration via what he terms the “space of flows” is taking place in virtually all cities. But this is happening in Castells extremely partial, uneven, and diverse ways. A logic of intense geographical differentiation is underway, within which people and places are enrolled in very different ways into the broadening circuits of economic and technological exchange. Networked infrastructures, far from somehow equalizing geography as so often portrayed in the business press, are actually being organized to exploit differences between places within ever-more sophisticated spatial divisions of labor. In such a context, this paper seeks to explore how http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Urban Technology Taylor & Francis

FlowCity: Networked Mobilities and the Contemporary Metropolis

Graham, Stephen
Journal of Urban Technology , Volume 9 (1): 20 – Apr 1, 2002
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FlowCity: Networked Mobilities and the Contemporary Metropoli s 1 FlowCity: Networked Mobilities and the Contemporary Metropolis Stephen Graham National borders have ceased being continuous lines on the earth’s surface and [have] become nonrelated sets of lines and points Andreu “Borders and Borderers ” situated within each country (58). ONTEMPORARY cities can be understood as socio-tech- nical constructions supporting mobilities and flow to more Cor less distant elsewheres: flows of people, goods, services, information, capital, waste, water, meaning. According to Manuel Castells, as cities become enmeshed in what he calls the “variable geometry” of the internationalizing “Network Society,” so techno- logical and economic integration via what he terms the “space of flows” is taking place in virtually all cities. But this is happening in Castells extremely partial, uneven, and diverse ways. A logic of intense geographical differentiation is underway, within which people and places are enrolled in very different ways into the broadening circuits of economic and technological exchange. Networked infrastructures, far from somehow equalizing geography as so often portrayed in the business press, are actually being organized to exploit differences between places within ever-more sophisticated spatial divisions of labor. In such a context, this paper seeks to explore how

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