Infrastructuring urban futures the politics of remaking cities

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 re...

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Other Authors: Wiig, Alan (Editor), Ward, Kevin (Editor), Enright, Theresa (Editor), Hodson, Mike (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol Bristol University Press 2023, 2023
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Summary: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 urbanisation. 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
Physical Description:1 online resource
ISBN:1529225639