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Waste Is Information: Infrastructure Legibility and Governance [Hardback]

(Northeastern University), Foreword by (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
  • Format: Hardback, 280 pages, height x width x depth: 229x152x19 mm, 31 b&w illus.; 62 Illustrations
  • Series: Infrastructures
  • Pub. Date: 06-Oct-2017
  • Publisher: MIT Press
  • ISBN-10: 0262036738
  • ISBN-13: 9780262036733
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  • Format: Hardback, 280 pages, height x width x depth: 229x152x19 mm, 31 b&w illus.; 62 Illustrations
  • Series: Infrastructures
  • Pub. Date: 06-Oct-2017
  • Publisher: MIT Press
  • ISBN-10: 0262036738
  • ISBN-13: 9780262036733
The relationship between infrastructure governance and the ways we read and represent waste systems, examined through three waste tracking and participatory sensing projects.
Foreword vii
Preface: The Paper Police ix
Introduction: Waste Is Information 1(20)
I Legibility
21(72)
Prologue to Part I Tracing Waste Geographies
23(4)
1 Visibility
27(26)
2 Reading Structure in Waste
53(40)
Epilogue to Part I Waste Forensics
87(6)
II Informality
93(58)
Prologue to Part II Making Informal Waste Systems Legible
95(6)
3 Local Legibility
101(16)
4 Tacit Arrangements: Reading Presence and Practices
117(34)
Addendum: Structures of Brazilian Cooperatives
141(10)
III Participation
151(56)
Prologue to Part III Crowdsourcing Infrastructure
153(4)
5 Who Is Infrastructure? Participation in Urban Services
157(20)
6 The Urban Problem at the Interface: Reading Governance
177(30)
Epilogue to Part III Tool or Therapy? Critiques of Civic Technologies
201(6)
Conclusion: A Case for Accountability-Oriented Design 207(20)
Notes 227(4)
References 231(28)
Acknowledgments 259(2)
Index 261