Infrastructuring Urban Futures: The Politics of Remaking Cities

by Mimi Sheller (Contribution by), Nate Millington (Contribution by), Kafui Attoh (Contribution by), Meredith Whitten (Contribution by), Mark Usher (Contribution by)

Overview

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781529225624
Publisher:	Bristol University Press
Publication date:	06/27/2023
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	230
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“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