Infrastructuring Urban Futures, livre ebook

This book brings together fragmented debates on the inter-relationships between infrastructure and urbanization, advancing a novel way of understanding urban futures across the globe.

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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.

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 - Andrés 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