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Codespaces: Community Wireless Networks and the Reconfiguration of Cities

Codespaces: Community Wireless Networks and the Reconfiguration of Cities

Laura Forlano
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 18
ISBN13: 9781605661520|ISBN10: 160566152X|EISBN13: 9781605661537
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-152-0.ch020
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Forlano, Laura. "Codespaces: Community Wireless Networks and the Reconfiguration of Cities." Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics: The Practice and Promise of the Real-Time City, edited by Marcus Foth, IGI Global, 2009, pp. 292-309. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-152-0.ch020

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Forlano, L. (2009). Codespaces: Community Wireless Networks and the Reconfiguration of Cities. In M. Foth (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics: The Practice and Promise of the Real-Time City (pp. 292-309). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-152-0.ch020

Chicago

Forlano, Laura. "Codespaces: Community Wireless Networks and the Reconfiguration of Cities." In Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics: The Practice and Promise of the Real-Time City, edited by Marcus Foth, 292-309. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2009. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-152-0.ch020

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Abstract

This chapter introduces the role of community wireless networks (CWNs) in reconfiguring people, places and information in cities. CWNs are important for leading users and innovators of mobile and wireless technologies in their communities. Their identities are geographically-bounded and their networks are imbued with social, political and economic values. While there has been much discussion of the networked, virtual and online implications of the Internet, the material implications in physical spaces have been overlooked. By analyzing the work of CWNs in New York and Berlin, this chapter reconceptualizes the interaction between technologies, spaces and forms of organizing. This chapter introduces the concept of codespaces in order to capture the integration of digital information, networks and interfaces with physical space.

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