The Connected City explores how thinking about networks helps make sense of modern cities: what they are, how they work, and where they are headed. Cities and urban life can be examined as networks, and these urban networks can be examined at many different levels. This book focuses on three levels of urban networks: micro, meso, and macro.

Zachary P. Neal is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Global Urban Studies at Michigan State University, and serves as Associate Editor of Global Networks and on the Editorial Board of City and Community. His research on cities and networks has appeared in Urban Studies, Global Networks, City and Community, the Journal of Urban Affairs, and Geographical Analysis. He is also the co-editor of Common Ground? Readings and Reflections on Public Space.

Chapter 1 Introduction: Why Cities? Why Networks?; Part 1 Micro-urban Networks: Networks Within Cities; Chapter 2 Community: Lost or Found; Chapter 3 Subculture: Finding Your Crowd in a Crowd; Chapter 4 Politics: We Don't Want Nobody Nobody Sent; Part 2 Meso-urban Networks: Cities as Networks; Chapter 5 Form: Getting From Here to There; Chapter 6 Function: Working Together; Part 3 Macro-urban Networks: Networks of Cities; Chapter 7 Regional: From City to Metropolis; Chapter 8 National: The Action is in Cities, But Also Between Them; Chapter 9 Global: Nylon Holds the World Together; Chapter 10 Conclusion: The New Science of Urban Networks;