An Informational Right to the City? Code, Content, Control, and the Urbanization of Information

Antipode

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 907-927

  Shaw, Joe ^a   Graham, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Google; ICTs; Lefebvre; post politics; right to the city; urban

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY; POLITICAL THEORY; POLITICS; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION; WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 85011660192     PISSN: 00664812     EISSN: 14678330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/anti.12312     Document Type: Article

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