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Gig@city: The Rise of Technological Networks in Daily Life

Gig@city: The Rise of Technological Networks in Daily Life Gig@city: The Rise of Technological Networks in Daily Life 1 Gig@city: The Rise of Technological Networks in Daily Life Dominique Lorrain HIS paper analyzes the diffusion of network technologies as a complex and contingent process. In doing so, it addresses Castells T the debate on the “post-Fordist” city and the so-called ten- Graham & Marvin 2001 dency towards fragmentation and segregation. Our central hypothesis Harvey is that it is necessary to examine each element of a city’s social Marcuse & van Kempen structure before asserting such a trend. Simply said, the logic organiz- ing urban productive sectors is not necessarily the same as the one governing housing markets, or the one structuring the economy of technical networks. Society is constituted of many sub-parts which are, of course, interconnected and respond to the same general logic (globalization, market forces, etc.) but it is a mistake, I believe, to consider that a phenomenon on one level, if we use the metaphor of Lorrain “Un Livre...” structural “instances,” explains what is happening on another level. It is necessary to develop analyses that take seriously the built (or technical) dimension of cities. That dimension is not a metaphor; it is a central part http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Urban Technology Taylor & Francis

Gig@city: The Rise of Technological Networks in Daily Life

Lorrain, Dominique
Journal of Urban Technology , Volume 8 (3): 20 – Dec 1, 2001
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Gig@city: The Rise of Technological Networks in Daily Life 1 Gig@city: The Rise of Technological Networks in Daily Life Dominique Lorrain HIS paper analyzes the diffusion of network technologies as a complex and contingent process. In doing so, it addresses Castells T the debate on the “post-Fordist” city and the so-called ten- Graham & Marvin 2001 dency towards fragmentation and segregation. Our central hypothesis Harvey is that it is necessary to examine each element of a city’s social Marcuse & van Kempen structure before asserting such a trend. Simply said, the logic organiz- ing urban productive sectors is not necessarily the same as the one governing housing markets, or the one structuring the economy of technical networks. Society is constituted of many sub-parts which are, of course, interconnected and respond to the same general logic (globalization, market forces, etc.) but it is a mistake, I believe, to consider that a phenomenon on one level, if we use the metaphor of Lorrain “Un Livre...” structural “instances,” explains what is happening on another level. It is necessary to develop analyses that take seriously the built (or technical) dimension of cities. That dimension is not a metaphor; it is a central part

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Published: Dec 1, 2001

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