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There has been a lot of rethinking of what the urban sphere is. Cities are increasingly seen in a “virtualized” way today: Not so much as mere agglomerations of concrete and people, and also not simply as givens. Rather, the city today presents itself as a virtuality: a permanently changing, unstable set of forces and potentials. As a collective dream, a very real dream world, and as a never-ending project in the eyes of all involved.
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Gutzmer, A. (2016). Rethinking the City: Actor-Network Theory and the Creation of Urban Connections. In: Urban Innovation Networks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24624-6_3
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