Urban Assemblages How Actor Network Theory Changes Urban Studies

Introduction: decentring the object of urban studies by Ignacio Farías p.1, PART I: Towards a Flat Ontology? p.251. Gelleable Spaces, Eventful Geographies: the Case of Santiago's Experimental Music Scene by Manuel Tironi p.27, 2. Globalizations Big and Small: Notes on Urban Studies, Actor-network Theory, and Geographical Scale by Alan Latham and Derek McCormackp.53, 3. Urban Studies without ‘scale’: Localizing the Global Through Singapore by Richard G. Smith p.73, 4. Assembling Asturias: Scaling Devices and Cultural Leverage by Don Slater and Tomas Ariztía p.91, Interview with Nigel Thrift by Ignacio Farías p.109, PART 2: A Non-Human Urban Ecology p.121, 5. How do we Co-Produce Urban Transport Systems and the City? The Case of Transmilenio and Bogotá by Andrés Valderrama Pineda p.123, 6. Changing Obdurate Urban Objects: The Attempts to Reconstruct the Highway through Maastricht by Anique Hommels p.139, 7. Mutable Immobiles. Building Conversion as a Problem of Quasi-Technologies by Michael Guggenheimp.161, 8. Conviction and Commotion: On Soundspheres, Technopolitics and Urban Space by Israel Rodríguez Giralt, Daniel López Gómez and Noel García López p.179, Interview with Stephen Graham by Ignacio Farías p.197, PART 3: The Multiple City p.207, 9. The Reality of Urban Tourism: Framed Activity and Virtual Ontology by Ignacio Farías p.209, 10. Assembling Money and the Senses. Revisiting Georg Simmel and the City by Michael Schillmeier p.229, 11. The City as Value Locus: Markets, Technologies, and the Problem of Worth by Caitlin Zaloom p.253, 12. Second Empire, Second Nature, Secondary World: Verne and Baudelaire in the Capital of the Nineteenth Century by Rosalind Williamsp.269, Interview with Robert Shields by Ignacio Faría p.291, Postscript: Re-Assembling the City. Networks and Urban Imaginaries by Thomas Bender p.303