An A-Z of Networked Urbanism

Stephen Graham

Global Urban Research Unit (GURU)

School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape

Newcastle University, U.K.

Steve.Graham@ncl.ac.uk

“The town exists only as a function of circulation and of circuits ; it is a singular point on the circuits which create it and

which it creates. It is defined by entries and exits: something must enter it and exit from

it"

Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari (1997)

Archaeology

City as Process: ‘Cyborg Urbanization’

Disruption and Vulnerability

“Cascading Effects”: 2003 SARS Crisis

Glocal e.g optic fibre systems

Infrastructure=Architecture=Landscape

Invisibility‘The most profound technologies are

those that disappear’ Mark Weiser, 1991

Kinetic Elites /Kinetic Underclasses

Multiple Networks,

Multiple Scales

Passage-Points

Polynucleation

Remediation

Software

Splintering

…and Surveillance

Topology and Bypass

Conclusion: Reimagining Networked Urbanism

•Bringing together planning, architecture, engineering and social mobilisations for democratisation• Social Innovation• Experimentation• Making place•Building networked publics and new ideas of networked urban citizenship and the right to the networked city

Thank you!

Some further reading….