Sustaining urban networks : the social diffusion of large technical systems / edited by Olivier Coutard, Richard E. Hanley, and Rae Zimmerman.

Papers presented at a roundtable conference held in New York City in 2001.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Network systems revisited : the confounding nature of universal systems / Olivier Coutard, Richard E. Hanley, and Rae Zimmerman -- Gig@city : the rise of technological networks in daily life / Dominique Lorrain -- "Internetting" downtown San Francisco : digital space meets urban place / Stephen Graham and Simon Guy -- Urban space and the development of networks : a discussion of the "splintering urbanism" thesis / Olivier Coutard -- Social implications of infrastructure network interactions / Rae Zimmerman -- When networks are destabilized : user innovation and the UK fuel crisis / Simon Marvin and Beth Perry -- Internet : the social construction of a "network ideology" / Patrice Flichy -- The diffusion of information and communication technologies in lower-income groups : cabinas de internet in Lima, Peru / Ana Marâia Fernâandez-Maldonado -- Living in a network society : the imperative to connect / Sally Wyatt -- Conflicts and the rise of users' participation in the Buenos Aires water supply concession, 1993-2003 / Graciela Schneier-Madanes -- Reforming the municipal water supply service in Delhi : institutional and organizational issues / Marie Llorente -- Not too much but not too little : the sustainability of urban water services in New York, Paris and New Delhi / Bernard Barraquâe -- Networks and the subversion of choice : an institutionalist manifesto / Gene I. Rochlin -- After words / Seymour J. Mandelbaum.