Urban Machinery investigates the technological dimension of modern European cities, vividly describing the most dramatic changes in the urban environment over t

Over the last few decades the increasingly collaborative work developed among architects, urban planners, artists and media designers has developed a particular

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Originally published in 1986. Political machines, and the bosses who ran them, are largely a relic of the nineteenth century. A prominent feature in nineteenth-

Harvey Molotch's "city as a growth machine" thesis is one of the most influential approaches to the analysis of urban politics and local economic development in