An A-Z of Networked Urbanism

Stephen GrahamGlobal Urban Research Unit (GURU)

School of Architecture, Planning and LandscapeNewcastle 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 FélixGuattari(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

MultipleNetworks, Multiple Scales

Passage-Points

Polynucleation

Remediation

Software

Splintering

…and Surveillance

Topology and Bypass

Conclusion: ReimaginingNetworked 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 furtherreading….