Redeploying Urban Infrastructure The Politics of Urban Socio-Tec
This book explores urban futures in the making, as seen through the lens of urban infrastructure. The book describes how socio-technical arrangements of energy and water provision are being recast in continuing efforts towards realising ‘sustainable’ tran
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JONATHAN RUTHERFORD
Redeploying Urban Infrastructure
Jonathan Rutherford
Redeploying Urban Infrastructure The Politics of Urban Socio-Technical Futures
Jonathan Rutherford LATTS Université Paris Est Marne-la-Vallée, France
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Preface
Over the past twenty years, urban infrastructure has come to be seen and studied as one of the key sites and vantage points of global urban transformations. Cities are facing the ongoing challenge of reconciling social inclusion, economic prosperity and environmental sustainability in their socio-technical systems (energy, water, communications, transport…). Scholars have responded by unpacking and critically investigating the shifting capacities of diverse actors to shape these systems, the various means they use to envision, enact and contest change, and the wide-ranging implications of systemic urban transitions. There is a meaningful politics of infrastructure which is and will continue to be a crucial and productive arena of debate and conflict over the directions, forms, modalities and outcomes of future urban change. This book seeks to substantively develop and demonstrate, both conceptually and empirically, this fertile politics of urban infrastructure. While infrastructure is increasingly present in urban studies and there is something of an ‘infrastructure turn’ in the wider social sciences (
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