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infrastructures do not only provide practical services. They are inseparable from collective representations and imaginaries. At the time of the first industrial revolution, a crucial notion such as network appeared precisely at the articulation of this practical
dimension and collective representations and imaginaries. An urban network has to do with both physical organization and a series of images regarding how technology and society function together. Networks possess by the same token a political content. </font></span></div>
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political imaginaries. Turning to the present, it will present hypotheses regarding what is currently at stake in terms of technology and political imaginary in the rise of the smart city.</font></span></div>
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Picon, is the G. Ware Travelstead Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology at Harvard Graduate School of Design. He has published numerous books and articles dealing with engineering history, with the relations between technology and utopia,
and with the complementary histories of cities, architecture and technology. He is among others the author of
<i>French Architects and Engineers in the Age of Enlightenment</i> (1988), <i>L'Invention de L'ingénieur moderne
</i>(1992), <i>La Ville territoire des cyborgs </i>(1998), <i>Les Saint-Simoniens: Raison, Imaginaire, et Utopie</i> (2003),
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