Infrastructuring Urban Futures - The Politics of Remaking Cities

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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.

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.

Summary

Focusing on material and social forms of infrastructure, this edited collection focuses on cities across the global North and South. Considering public health crises and climate change, 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

• Assisted by: Theresa Enright (Editor), Mike Hodson (Editor), Hamil Pearsall (Editor), Jonathan Silver (Editor), Kevin Ward (Editor), Alan Wiig (Editor)
• Publisher: Bristol University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.05.2023
• EAN: 9781529225624
• ISBN: 978-1-5292-2562-4
• No. of pages: 230
• Dimensions: 234 mm x 155 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 352 g
• Illustrations: 2 Tables, black and white; 22 Illustrations, black and white
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories