Mobile technologies of the city / edited by Mimi Sheller and John Urry.

Introduction : mobile cities, urban mobilities / Mimi Sheller, John Urry -- The linear city : touring Vienna in the nineteenth century / Ulrike Spring -- Between the physical and the virtual : connected mobilities? / Peter Adey, Paul Bevan -- Urban violence : luxury in made space / Sarah S. Jain -- Bypassing and WAPing : reconfiguring timetables for 'real-time' mobility / Juliet Jain -- Reshaping patterns of mobility and exclusion? : the impact of virtual mobility upon acesssibility, mobility, and social exclusion / Susan Kenyon -- Twin Towers and Amoy Gardens : mobilities, risks and choices / Stephen Little -- From café to parkbench : Wi-Fi and technological overflows in the city / Adrian Mackenzie -- ICTs and the engineering of encounters : a case study of the development of a mobile game based on the geolocation of terminals / Christian Licoppe, Romain Guillot -- Permeable boundaries in the software-sorted society : surveillance and differentiations of mobility / David Wood, Stephen Graham.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"In Mobile Technologies of the City, Mimi Sheller and John Urry bring together a carefully selected group of innovative case studies that trace the emergence both of the new socio-technical practices of the city and of a new theoretical paradigm for mobilities research. The research based in Vienna, Liverpool, Bristol, London, Tokyo, Paris, Los Angeles and Hong Kong ranges across media including guidebooks, web sites, train schedules wireless computing cinema, mobile phones and mobile gaming. It encompasses infrastructures such as road and rail systems, airline network and hubs, internet routers and wireless hot spots, and focuses on urban sites including streets, train platforms, bus stops, airports, internet cafes, park benches, parking garages and cars."

"Mobile Technologies of the City contributes new theoretical perspectives on temporality, security and systematization. It brings together complexity theory actor network theory and social studies of technology generating a new approach to the mobility systems that constitute contemporary cities."--Jacket.