Infrastructural Lives (eBook, ePUB)

Urban Infrastructure in Context
Redaktion: Graham, Stephen; Mcfarlane, Colin

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Demonstrates that infrastructure is not just as a 'thing', a 'system', or an 'output,' but a complex social and technological process that enables or disables particular kinds of action in the city.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317686392
• Artikelnr.: 41784640

Autorenporträt

Stephen Graham is Professor of Cities and Society at Newcastle University's School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, UK. His research addresses the complex links between urban places and mobilities, infrastructures, militarization, surveillance, security and war. His books include Telecommunications and the City, Splintering Urbanism (both with Simon Marvin), Disrupted Cities: When infrastructures fail and Cities Under Siege: The new military urbanism. His next book, Vertical: The politics of up and down, is currently in preparation. Colin McFarlane is Reader in Urban Geography at Durham University, UK. His research focusss on the experience and politics of urban infrastructure, especially in relation to informal settlements. His recent research has focused on the politics of sanitation in informal settlements in Mumbai, India. His books include Learning the City: Knowledge and translocal assemblage, Urban Navigations: Politics, space and the city in South Asia (with Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria) and Urban Informalities: Reflections on the formal and informal (with Michael Waibel).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Arjun Appadurai Introduction Steve Graham and Colin McFarlane
Part I: Knowing Infrastructure 1. Relational infrastructure in postcolonial
urban worlds AbdouMaliq Simone 2. Infra-City: speculations on flux and
history in infrastructure-making Vyjayanthi Rao Part II: Infrastructural
Violence and Dispossession 3. Water Wars in Mumbai Stephen Graham, Renu
Desai and Colin McFarlane. Waiting in the ruins: the aesthetics and
politics of favela urbanization in "PACification" Mariana Cavalcanti 5.
Road 443: Cementing dispossession, normalizing segregation and disrupting
everyday life in Palestine Omar Jabary Salamanca Part III: Waste, Process,
Infrastructure 6. The uncanny materialities of the everyday: domesticated
nature as the invisible "other" Maria Kaika 7. Kampala's Sanitary Regime:
Whose toilet is it anyway? Stephanie Terrani Brown 8. Cleaning Up the
Streets: Newcastle-upon-Tyne's Night-Time Neighbourhood Services Team Rob
Shaw Part IV: Adjustment and Experimentation 9. Maintaining experiments and
the material agency of the urban Vanesa Castán Broto and Harriet Bulkeley
10. Low carbon nation: making new market opportunities Mike Hodson and
Simon Marvin