Infrastructuring Urban Futures
The Politics of Remaking Cities
Edited by Alan Wiig, Kevin Ward, Theresa Enright, Mike Hodson, Hamil Pearsall and Jonathan Silver
Published
May 25, 2023Page count
230 pagesISBN
978-1529225624Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
May 25, 2023Page count
230 pagesISBN
978-1529225648Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University Press
Infrastructuring Urban Futures
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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.
“The contributors to this volume provide compelling evidence to illustrate how the reconfiguration of collective services is implicated in the messy dynamics of contemporary urban development.” Andrew Karvonen, Lund University
“This all-star line-up steers the over-abundance of infrastructure studies to the core issue: the ways in which disparate experiences and affordances of urban inhabitation are materialized and thus curated to construct gradiated forms of liveliness, replete with often unanticipated potentials and failures.” AbdouMaliq Simone, University of Sheffield
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.
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
