Handbook of Infrastructures and Cities

Edited by Olivier Coutard and Daniel Florentin

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Contributing towards a thriving research area, this comprehensive Handbook presents a broad discussion of infrastructure as social phenomena. It compiles diverse perspectives to delineate the current ‘infrastructural turn’ and assess policy and research challenges relating to contemporary forms of infrastructural development.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Environment; Geography; Sociology and Social Policy; Urban and Regional Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
ISBN: 9781800889149
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Researching infrastructures and cities: origins, debates, openings , pp 1-49

Olivier Coutard and Daniel Florentin

Ch 2 Capture and control: two intersecting logics of infrastructure finance , pp 51-64

Philip Ashton

Ch 3 Power disruptions: power system reconfigurations reassembling the state , pp 65-78

Costanza Concetti

Ch 4 Smart city new deals: unpacking the recursive entanglements of infrastructures and administrations , pp 79-93

Julia Valeska Schröder, Claudia Mendes and Ignacio Farías

Ch 5 Commoning roads: maintenance and the labour of infrastructure , pp 94-103

Alexander Paulsson and Jens Alm

Ch 6 Intermediate and interminable: a railway regeneration drama in two acts , pp 104-118

Nacima Baron and Yassine Khelladi

Ch 7 Urban infrastructures' maturity and the age(s) of maintenance , pp 119-132

Jérôme Denis and Daniel Florentin

Ch 8 Security as infrastructure: controlling the rhythms and spacetimes of the city , pp 134-146

Damien Carrière and Priyam Tripathy

Ch 9 Financial infrastructure and the production of the built environment , pp 147-160

Ludovic Halbert

Ch 10 Landscape interpretations of infrastructure-led developments: plans, spaces and appropriations in contemporary China , pp 161-178

Leonardo Ramondetti

Ch 11 Spectrums of infrastructural hybridity: insights from urban Africa for a propositional research agenda , pp 179-195

Liza Rose Cirolia and Andrea Pollio

Ch 12 Material politics on and off the grid in Sub-Saharan African urban electricity configurations: an essay on hybrid urbanism , pp 196-211

Sylvy Jaglin, Mélanie Rateau and Emmanuelle Guillou

Ch 13 Infrastructures, practices and the materiality of daily life: revisiting urban metabolism , pp 212-224

Olivier Coutard and Elizabeth Shove

Ch 14 First Nations foundations: cities and the infrastructuring of settler colonisation , pp 226-239

Holly Randell-Moon

Ch 15 Infrastructural violence and its temporalities , pp 240-254

Kei Otsuki

Ch 16 Representing infrastructural violence: artistic engagements with Lebanon’s waste crisis , pp 255-270

Hanna Baumann

Ch 17 Contesting mobility injustices and infrastructural violence: the frictions arising from a modern transportation project in Hanoi, Vietnam , pp 271-283

Sarah Turner and Binh N. Nguyen

Ch 18 Urban motorways inducing mobility and immobility , pp 284-295

Oscar Figueroa, Carole Gurdon and Paulette Landon

Ch 19 Street-side citizenships: claim-making and the reordering of streets in Indian cities , pp 296-310

Yogi Joseph, Sreelakshmi Ramachandran and Govind Gopakumar

Ch 20 Multiple publics, disjunctures, and hybrid systems: how marginalised groups stake their claims to transport infrastructure , pp 311-322

Lindsay Blair Howe, Margot Rubin, Sarah Charlton, Muhammed Suleman, Alexandra Parker and Anselmo Cani

Ch 21 Infrastructural citizenship in post-networked contexts: hybridity in South Africa , pp 323-338

Charlotte Lemanski

Ch 22 Seeing like an urban service operator: making urban circulations of matter and energy legible in the digital age , pp 340-352

Morgan Mouton

Ch 23 Coding urban metabolism: infrastructuring metabolic pathways , pp 353-365

Pierre Desvaux

Ch 24 Material knowledge and practices in the making of a building resource out of excavated soils: a case study in the Paris Region , pp 366-374

Jean Goizauskas and Carole-Anne Tisserand

Ch 25 The resistance of centralised socio-technical systems: the 'dynamic status quo' between centralised wastewater sanitation and decentralised stormwater management in France , pp 375-389

José-Frédéric Deroubaix and Julie Gobert

Ch 26 Post-socialist urban infrastructures: learning from systems of less , pp 390-403

Tauri Tuvikene, Wladimir Sgibnev and Carola S. Neugebauer

Ch 27 Science, technology and society studies perspectives on urban responses to infrastructural breakdown , pp 404-416

Anique Hommels

Ch 28 Re-negotiating infrastructural boundaries in urban spaces: road maintenance as a dualistic mode of infrastructuring , pp 417-429

Roman Solé-Pomies

Ch 29 Getting to work on time: the temporalities of urban infrastructure , pp 431-450

Jean-Paul D. Addie

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