Handbook of Infrastructures and Cities (Research Handbooks in Urban Studies series)

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. Front Matter Copyright Contents Figures Tables Boxes Contributors Acknowledgements 1. Researching infrastructures and cities: origins, debates, openings PART I VALUE(S) AND VALUATION OF INFRASTRUCTURES 2. Capture and control: two intersecting logics of infrastructure finance 3. Power disruptions: power system reconfigurations reassembling the state 4. Smart city new deals: unpacking the recursive entanglements of infrastructures and administrations 5. Commoning roads: maintenance and the labour of infrastructure 6. Intermediate and interminable: a railway regeneration drama in two acts 7. Urban infrastructures’ maturity and the age(s) of maintenance PART II THE MANY FACETS OF CONTEMPORARY INFRASTRUCTURATION 8. Security as infrastructure: controlling the rhythms and spacetimes of the city 9. Financial infrastructure and the production of the built environment 10. Landscape interpretations of infrastructure-led developments: plans, spaces and appropriations in contemporary China 11. Spectrums of infrastructural hybridity: insights from urban Africa for a propositional research agenda 12. Material politics on and off the grid in Sub-Saharan African urban electricity configurations: an essay on hybrid urbanism 13. Infrastructures, practices and the materiality of daily life: revisiting urban metabolism PART III INFRASTRUCTURAL VIOLENCE ON SPACES, SOCIETIES AND BODIES 14. First Nations foundations: cities and the infrastructuring of settler colonisation 15. Infrastructural violence and its temporalities 16. Representing infrastructural violence: artistic engagements with Lebanon’s waste crisis 17. Contesting mobility injustices and infrastructural violence: the frictions arising from a modern transportation project in Hanoi, Vietnam 18. Urban motorways inducing mobility and immobility 19. Street-side citizenships: claim-making and the reordering of streets in Indian cities 20. Multiple publics, disjunctures, and hybrid systems: how marginalised groups stake their claims to transport infrastructure 21. Infrastructural citizenship in post-networked contexts: hybridity in South Africa 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 23. Coding urban metabolism: infrastructuring metabolic pathways 24. Material knowledge and practices in the making of a building resource out of excavated soils: a case study in the Paris Region 25. The resistance of centralised socio-technical systems: the ‘dynamic status quo’ between centralised wastewater sanitation and decentralised stormwater management in France 26. Post-socialist urban infrastructures: learning from systems of less 27. Science, technology and society studies perspectives on urban responses to infrastructural breakdown 28. Re-negotiating infrastructural boundaries in urban spaces: road maintenance as a dualistic mode of infrastructuring PART V CONCLUSION 29. Getting to work on time: the temporalities of urban infrastructure Index