Urban assemblages : how actor-network theory changes urban studies / edited by Ignacio Farías and Thomas Bender.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Gelleable spaces, eventful geographies : the case of Santiago's experimental music scene / Manuel Tironi -- Globalizations big and small : notes on urban studies, actor-network theory, and geographical scale / Alan Latham and Derek McCormack -- Urban studies without "scale" : localizing the global through Singapore / Richard G. Smith -- Assembling asturias : scaling devices and cultural leverage / Don Slater and Tomas Ariztía -- Interview with Nigel Thrift / Ignacio Farías -- How do we co-produce urban transport systems and the city? : the case of Transmilenio and Bogotá / Andrés Valderrama Pineda -- Changing obdurate urban objects : the attempts to reconstruct the highway through Maastricht / Anique Hommels -- Mutable immobiles : building conversion as a problem of quasi-technologies / Michael Guggenheim -- Conviction and commotion : on soundspheres, technopolitics, and urban space / Israel Rodríguez Giralt, Daniel López Gómez and Noel García López -- Interview with Stephen Graham / Ignacio Farías -- The reality of urban tourism : framed activity and virtual ontology / Ignacio Farías -- Assembling money and the senses : revisiting Georg Simmel and the city / Michael Schillmeier -- The city as value locus : markets, technologies, and the problem of worth / Caitlin Zaloom -- Second empire, second nature, secondary world : Verne and Baudelaire in the capital of the nineteenth century / Rosalind Williams -- Interview with Rob Shields / Ignacio Farías.

This study proposes - and its various chapters offer demonstrations - importing into urban studies a body of theories, concepts, and perspectives developed in the field of science and technology studies (STS) and, more specifically, Actor-Network Theory (ANT).