Blokland, T. and M. Savage, Eds. (2008). Networked urbanism: social capital in the city. Aldershot, Ashgate.
This edited book aims to provide a critical geographical and sociological account of social capital, demonstrating how new kinds of 'networked urbanism' have generated new forms of exclusionary social capital, in contrast with community networks that existed in the past. A range of methods are used throughout the collection, including social network analysis, qualitative interviews, mixed methods and case studies, amongst other approaches. Leading urban researchers from the Netherlands, the UK, the USA, Australia, Italy and France explore the nature of social networks from a range of theoretical perspectives on social capital. The book also provides several detailed empirical case studies (cf. Haynes and Hernandez-Chapter 4, Blokland- Chapter 8, and Butler -Chapter 11), as well as a specific chapter on the possibilities of social network analysis as a method (Savage and Warde- Chapter 9).