Urban Assemblages : How Actor-Network Theory Changes Urban Studies (Paperback)

Introduction (Ignacio Farias)  Section I: Towards a Flat Ontology?  1. Gelleable Spaces, Eventful Geographies: the Case of Santiago's Experimental Music Scene (Manuel Tironi)  2. Globalizations Big and Small: Notes on Urban Studies, Actor-network Theory, and Geographical Scale (Alan Latham and Derek McCormack)  3. Urban Studies without ‘scale’: Localizing the Global Through Singapore (Richard G. Smith)  4. Assembling Asturias: Scaling Devices and Cultural Leverage (Don Slater and Tomas Ariztia)  Interview with Nigel Thrift (Ignacio Farias)  Section 2: A Non-Human Urban Ecology  5. How do we Co-Produce Urban Transport Systems and the City? The Case of Transmilenio and Bogota (Andres Valderrama Pineda)  6. Changing Obdurate Urban Objects: The Attempts to Reconstruct the Highway through Maastricht (Anique Hommels)  7. Mutable Immobiles. Building Conversion as a Problem of Quasi-Technologies (Michael Guggenheim)  8. Conviction and Commotion: On Soundspheres, Technopolitics and Urban Space (Israel Rodriguez Giralt, Daniel Lopez Gomez and Noel Garcia Lopez)  Interview with Stephen Graham (Ignacio Farias)  Section 3: The Multiple City  9. The Reality of Urban Tourism: Framed Activity and Virtual Ontology (Ignacio Farias)  10. Assembling Money and the Senses. Revisiting Georg Simmel and the City (Michael Schillmeier)  11. The City as Value Locus: Markets, Technologies, and the Problem of Worth (Caitlin Zaloom)  12. Second Empire, Second Nature, Secondary World: Verne and Baudelaire in the Capital of the Nineteenth Century (Rosalind Williams)  Interview with Robert Shields (Ignacio Farias)  Postscript: Re-Assembling the City. Networks and Urban Imaginaries (Thomas Bender)