Infrastructuring Urban Futures

The Politics of Remaking Cities

Alan Wiig, Kevin Ward, Theresa Enright, Mike Hodson, Hamil Pearsall, Jonathan Silver

• Publisher: Bristol University Press
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781529225624
• eBook ISBN: 9781529225631
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Scienze sociali
• Subtopic: Antropologia

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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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures and Tables
• Notes on Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Infrastructure and the Tragedy of Development
• 3 Temporalities of the Climate Crisis: Maintenance, Green Finance and Racialized Austerity in New York City and Cape Town
• 4 Emerging Techno-ecologies of Energy: Examining Digital Interventions and Engagements with Urban Infrastructure
• 5 Infrastructural Reparations: Reimagining Reparative Justice in Haiti and Puerto Rico
• 6 Making Shit Social: Combined Sewer Overflows, Water Citizenship and the Infrastructural Commons
• 7 More than ‘Where You Do Football’: Reconceptualizing London’s Urban Green Spaces through Green Infrastructure Planning
• 8 Global Infrastructure and Urban Futures: London’s Transforming Royal Albert Dock
• Afterword 1: On Fetishes, Fragments and Futures: Regionalizing Infrastructural Lives
• Afterword 2: Incomplete Futures of Urban Infrastructure:
• Index