Unplugging the City: The Urban Phenomenon and its Sociotechnical Controversies

by Rodrigo Jose Firmino and Fabio Duarte

Book Overview

Modernity has entrusted technology with such power that it is treated as an autonomous entity, with its own manners and morals. Technological disruptions are also socially disruptive: technological failures reveal both the constituents of the technology itself and the social fabric woven by this technology. Cities are the quintessential technological arrangement, not only materially but also as a conceptual framework: the ubiquity of technology...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367331799
• ISBN13: 9780367331795
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"