Infrastructure mosaics in urban India: Sewage beyond the networked city

Angela Oberg

Urban Studies, 2023, vol. 60, issue 3, 425-441

Abstract: In this paper, I illustrate how sewage is managed beyond the networked city to create infrastructure mosaics – patchworks of interconnected infrastructures across the city characterised by variegation, fluidity and non-linearity. The purpose of this work is to develop the concept of infrastructure mosaics as a way to understand urban sewage flows in Southern cities based on the lived experience of residents, rather than on concepts developed to describe Northern cities. I begin with a brief review of how the concept of networked cities has been applied to the Global South. I then explore how sewage operates within the networked city and beyond. I finish by contextualising these ideas through the case of sewage in Agra, India. The findings from this work can help planners and policy makers across the North/South divide better understand how urban sewage operates in reality, giving decision makers insights into opportunities for improvement outside the modern infrastructural ideal.

Keywords: everyday practices; infrastructure; materiality; sewage; urban political ecology; 日常实践; 基础设施; 物质性; æ±¡æ°´å¤„ç †; åŸŽå¸‚æ”¿æ²»ç”Ÿæ€ (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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