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    Handbook of Infrastructures and Cities

    Handbook of Infrastructures and Cities by Coutard, Olivier; Florentin, Daniel;

    Series: Research Handbooks in Urban Studies series;

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    Short description:

    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.

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    Contributing towards a thriving research area, this comprehensive Handbook presents a thorough discussion of infrastructure as a social phenomenon. It compiles diverse perspectives to delineate the current ?infrastructural turn? and assess policy and research challenges relating to contemporary forms of infrastructural development.



    Providing cutting-edge insights into the field, the Handbook explores the analytical category of infrastructure, clarifying and expanding upon the importance of an infrastructural perspective within academic and policy debates. An interdisciplinary range of contributors provides an ambitious examination of infrastructures and cities, with chapters covering the transformations of traditional networked infrastructure systems; novel understandings of how infrastructures matter; socio-technical processes of infrastructuring; forms of social violence involving infrastructural developments; and the role of infrastructures in human pressures on the biosphere. Ultimately, this Handbook proposes directions for further infrastructure research, highlighting its relevance in a shifting socio-political landscape.



    The Handbook of Infrastructures and Cities provides valuable insight for scholars of urban studies, urban sociology, human geography, planning and regional studies. It will also prove to be a vital reference point for academics and policy-makers seeking to progress social equality and challenge current structural obstacles to the advent of more sustainable infrastructures.



    ?Entering the realm of infrastructures is of prime importance for anyone wishing to understand contemporary urban issues, whether social, ecological, political or technical ? and often all at once. This indispensable Handbook provides guidance on the keys issues from an interdisciplinary perspective, giving a place to cities of the north and south, and highlighting the social forces and impacts of urban materiality.?

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    Table of Contents:

    Contents:

    1 Researching infrastructures and cities: origins, debates, openings 1
    Olivier Coutard and Daniel Florentin

    PART I VALUE(S) AND VALUATION OF INFRASTRUCTURES
    2 Capture and control: two intersecting logics of infrastructure finance 49
    Philip Ashton
    3 Power disruptions: power system reconfigurations reassembling the state 63
    Costanza Concetti
    4 Smart city new deals: unpacking the recursive entanglements of
    infrastructures and administrations 77
    Julia Valeska Schröder, Claudia Mendes and Ignacio Farías
    5 Commoning roads: maintenance and the labour of infrastructure 92
    Alexander Paulsson and Jens Alm
    6 Intermediate and interminable: a railway regeneration drama in two acts 102
    Nacima Baron and Yassine Khelladi
    7 Urban infrastructures? maturity and the age(s) of maintenance 117
    Jérôme Denis and Daniel Florentin

    PART II THE MANY FACES OF CONTEMPORARY INFRASTRUCTURATION
    8 Security as infrastructure: controlling the rhythms and spacetimes of the city 131
    Damien Carri?re and Priyam Tripathy
    9 Financial infrastructure and the production of the built environment 144
    Ludovic Halbert
    10 Landscape interpretations of infrastructure-led developments: plans,
    spaces and appropriations in contemporary China 158
    Leonardo Ramondetti
    11 Spectrums of infrastructural hybridity: insights from urban Africa for
    a propositional research agenda 176
    Liza Rose Cirolia and Andrea Pollio
    12 Material politics on and off the grid in Sub-Saharan African urban
    electricity configurations: an essay on hybrid urbanism 193
    Sylvy Jaglin, Mélanie Rateau and Emmanuelle Guillou
    13 Infrastructures, practices and the materiality of daily life: revisiting
    urban metabolism 209
    Olivier Coutard and Elizabeth Shove

    PART III INFRASTRUCTURAL VIOLENCE ON SPACES, SOCIETIES
    AND BODIES
    14 First Nations foundations: cities and the infrastructuring of settler colonisation 223
    Holly Randell-Moon
    15 Infrastructural violence and its temporalities 237
    Kei Otsuki
    16 Representing infrastructural violence: artistic engagements with
    Lebanon?s waste crisis 252
    Hanna Baumann
    17 Contesting mobility injustices and infrastructural violence: the frictions
    arising from a modern transportation project in Hanoi, Vietnam 268
    Sarah Turner and Binh N. Nguyen
    18 Urban motorways inducing mobility and immobility 280
    Oscar Figueroa, Carole Gurdon and Paulette Landon
    19 Street-side citizenships: claim-making and the reordering of streets in
    Indian cities 292
    Yogi Joseph, Sreelakshmi Ramachandran and Govind Gopakumar
    20 Multiple publics, disjunctures, and hybrid systems: how marginalised
    groups stake their claims to transport infrastructure 307
    Lindsay Blair Howe, Margot Rubin, Sarah Charlton, Muhammed Suleman,
    Alexandra Parker, and Anselmo Cani
    21 Infrastructural citizenship in post-networked contexts: hybridity in
    South Africa 319
    Charlotte Lemanski

    PART IV THE INFRASTRUCTUROCENE AND ITS DISCONTENTS
    22 Seeing like an urban service operator: making urban circulations of
    matter and energy legible in the digital age 336
    Morgan Mouton
    23 Coding urban metabolism: infrastructuring metabolic pathways 349
    Pierre Desvaux
    24 Material knowledge and practices in the making of a building resource
    out of excavated soils: a case study in the Paris Region 362
    Jean Goizauskas and Carole-Anne Tisserand
    25 The resistance of centralised socio-technical systems: the ?dynamic
    status quo? between centralised wastewater sanitation and decentralised
    storm water management in France 371
    José-Frédéric Deroubaix and Julie Gobert
    26 Post-socialist urban infrastructures: learning from systems of less 386
    Tauri Tuvikene, Wladimir Sgibnev and Carola S. Neugebauer
    27 Science, technology and society studies perspectives on urban
    responses to infrastructural breakdown 400
    Anique Hommels
    28 Re-negotiating infrastructural boundaries in urban spaces: road
    maintenance as a dualistic mode of infrastructuring 413
    Roman Solé-Pomies

    PART V CONCLUSION
    29 Getting to work on time: the temporalities of urban infrastructure 427
    Jean-Paul Addie

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