This paper explores the work of engineers amidst fragments access and use mechanisms that make up water infrastructures in city Chennai south India. It sets its ethnographic investigation against a dual backdrop. One is global have almost unequivocally come to be accepted as fragmented, even themselves are little examined. The second mandate will order engineering presumed operate on by academi...

Smart urbanism is an established research area in geography and the social sciences. We draw on ‘worlding-provincialising’ strategies identified Urban Studies Special Issue from February 2021 to explore how smart infrastructures, a form of urbanism, disrupt representations informality urban development new productive ways. Focussing disruptive or troublesome implications infrastructures reveals...

Based on data coming from mobile communication infrastructures, this paper proposes an analytical process aimed at extracting interconnections between different areas of the city that emerge from highly correlated temporal variations of population local densities. The proposed methods are experimented on two real scenarios of different spatial scale: the Paris Region and the whole France.

Many infrastructure networks have a modular structure and are also interdependent with other infrastructures. While significant research has explored the resilience of interdependent networks, there has been no analysis of the effects of modularity. Here we develop a theoretical framework for attacks on interdependent modular networks and support our results through simulations. We focus, for s...

This paper investigates the agglomeration of Knowledge Intensive Service (KIS) firms in urban areas. In accordance with the Regional Innovation Systems approach it is argued that cities provide crucial innovation advantages working as centripetal forces for KIS. Applying multivariate logit regressions to a company survey of the city of Karlsruhe, the second largest city of the German federal st...

Contemporary cities are thick with infrastructure. In recognition of this fact a great deal of recent work within urban studies and urban geography has focused on transformations in the governance and ownership of infrastructural elements within cities. Less attention has been paid to the practices through which urban infrastructures are inhabited by urban dwellers. Yet in all sorts of ways inf...

Virtual 3D city models provide important information for different aspects of disaster management. In this context, up-to-dateness of and flexible access to 3D city models are of utmost importance. Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) provide the appropriate framework to cover both aspects, integrating distributed data sources on demand. In this paper we present CityGML, a multi-purpose and multi...

Enhancing the effectiveness of city services and assisting on a more sustainable development of cities are two of the crucial drivers of the smart city concept. This paper portrays a field trial that leverages an internet of things (IoT) platform intended for bringing value to existing and future smart city infrastructures. The paper highlights how IoT creates the basis permitting integration o...