Whether in the form of transnational political initiatives, global economies, new technologies, or urban social movements, networks are the distinctive characteristic of spatial organization in the twenty-first century. Networks have changed our forms of cultural coexistence and communication just as they have the way in which we produce and experience spaces. Cities, regions, countries, and continents are being experienced less and less as fixed territories and increasingly as fluid and contested landscapes, formed and mobilized by networks of integrating realities. Networks are a form of organization, an operational politics, and a generative process. On all these levels networks foreground the relationships among objects rather than the objects themselves.
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