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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.
1. Introduction - Alan Wiig, Kevin Ward, Theresa Enright, Mike Hodson,
Hamil Pearsall and Jonathan Silver
2. Infrastructure and the Tragedy of Development - Kafui Attoh
3. Temporalities of the Climate Crisis: Maintenance, Green Finance and
Racialized Austerity in New York City and Cape Town - Patrick Bigger and Nate
Millington
4. Emerging Techno-ecologies of Energy: Examining Digital Interventions and
Engagements with Urban Infrastructure - Andrés Luque-Ayala and Jonathan
Rutherford
5. Infrastructural Reparations: Reimagining Reparative Justice in Haiti and
Puerto Rico - Mimi Sheller
6. Making Shit Social: Combined Sewer Overflows, Water Citizenship and the
Infrastructural Commons - Mark Usher
7. More than Where You Do Football: Reconceptualizing Londons Urban Green
Spaces through Green Infrastructure Planning - Meredith Whitten
8. Global Infrastructure and Urban Futures: Londons Transforming Royal
Albert Dock - Jonathan Silver and Alan Wiig
Afterword 1: On Fetishes, Fragments and Futures: Regionalizing
Infrastructural Lives - Michael Glass, Jen Nelles and Jean-Paul Addie
Afterword 2: Incomplete Futures of Urban Infrastructure - Prince Guma
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.
