Infrastructuring Urban Futures
The Politics of Remaking Cities
Bristol University Press
1st Edition
Published on 25. May 2023
230 pages
978-1-5292-2563-1 (ISBN)
Description
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Focusing on material and social forms of infrastructure, this edited collection draws on rich empirical details from cities across the global North and South. The book asks the reader to think through the different ways in which infrastructure comes to be present in cities and its co-constitutive relationships with urban inhabitants and wider processes of urbanization.
Considering the climate emergency, economic transformation, public health crises and racialized inequality, the book argues that paying attention to infrastructures' past, present and future allows us to understand and respond to the current urban condition.
Focusing on material and social forms of infrastructure, this edited collection draws on rich empirical details from cities across the global North and South. The book asks the reader to think through the different ways in which infrastructure comes to be present in cities and its co-constitutive relationships with urban inhabitants and wider processes of urbanization.
Considering the climate emergency, economic transformation, public health crises and racialized inequality, the book argues that paying attention to infrastructures' past, present and future allows us to understand and respond to the current urban condition.
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'A work of rare political urgency that maintains conceptual rigor. It offers both scholars and activists tools not just for critique, but for transformation.' EcokritikeMore details
Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Bristol
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
22 s/w Abbildungen, 2 s/w Tabellen
2 Tables, black and white; 22 Illustrations, black and white
File size
17,68 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-5292-2563-1 (9781529225631)
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Infrastructuring Urban Futures
The Politics of Remaking Cities
Book
05/2023
1st Edition
Bristol University Press
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Persons
Alan Wiig is Associate Professor in the Department of Urban Planning and Community Development at the University of Massachusetts.
Kevin Ward is Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Manchester.
Theresa Enright is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto.
Mike Hodson is Professor in the Alliance Manchester Business School at the University of Manchester.
Hamil Pearsall is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Urban Studies at Temple University.
Jonathan Silver is Senior Research Fellow at The Urban Institute at the University of Sheffield.
Kevin Ward is Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Manchester.
Theresa Enright is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto.
Mike Hodson is Professor in the Alliance Manchester Business School at the University of Manchester.
Hamil Pearsall is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Urban Studies at Temple University.
Jonathan Silver is Senior Research Fellow at The Urban Institute at the University of Sheffield.
Contributions
Contributor, Infrastructuring Urban Futures
University of Manchester
CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies
London School of Economics and Political Science
University of Manchester
University of Pittsburgh
The University of Sheffield
Durham University
Climate and Community Project
Ecole des Ponts ParisTech
Content
1. Introduction - Alan Wiig, Kevin Ward, Theresa Enright, Mike Hodson, Hamil Pearsall and Jonathan Silver
2. Infrastructure and the Tragedy of Development - Kafui Attoh
3. Temporalities of the Climate Crisis: Maintenance, Green Finance and Racialized Austerity in New York City and Cape Town - Patrick Bigger and Nate Millington
4. Emerging Techno-ecologies of Energy: Examining Digital Interventions and Engagements with Urban Infrastructure - Andres Luque-Ayala and Jonathan Rutherford
5. Infrastructural Reparations: Reimagining Reparative Justice in Haiti and Puerto Rico - Mimi Sheller
6. Making Shit Social: Combined Sewer Overflows, Water Citizenship and the Infrastructural Commons - Mark Usher
7. More than 'Where You Do Football': Reconceptualizing London's Urban Green Spaces through Green Infrastructure Planning - Meredith Whitten
8. Global Infrastructure and Urban Futures: London's Transforming Royal Albert Dock - Jonathan Silver and Alan Wiig
Afterword 1: On Fetishes, Fragments and Futures: Regionalizing Infrastructural Lives - Michael Glass, Jen Nelles and Jean-Paul Addie
Afterword 2: Incomplete Futures of Urban Infrastructure - Prince Guma
2. Infrastructure and the Tragedy of Development - Kafui Attoh
3. Temporalities of the Climate Crisis: Maintenance, Green Finance and Racialized Austerity in New York City and Cape Town - Patrick Bigger and Nate Millington
4. Emerging Techno-ecologies of Energy: Examining Digital Interventions and Engagements with Urban Infrastructure - Andres Luque-Ayala and Jonathan Rutherford
5. Infrastructural Reparations: Reimagining Reparative Justice in Haiti and Puerto Rico - Mimi Sheller
6. Making Shit Social: Combined Sewer Overflows, Water Citizenship and the Infrastructural Commons - Mark Usher
7. More than 'Where You Do Football': Reconceptualizing London's Urban Green Spaces through Green Infrastructure Planning - Meredith Whitten
8. Global Infrastructure and Urban Futures: London's Transforming Royal Albert Dock - Jonathan Silver and Alan Wiig
Afterword 1: On Fetishes, Fragments and Futures: Regionalizing Infrastructural Lives - Michael Glass, Jen Nelles and Jean-Paul Addie
Afterword 2: Incomplete Futures of Urban Infrastructure - Prince Guma
