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Beyond the Networked City - Infrastructure reconfigurations and urban change in the North and South (Hardcover)
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Beyond the Networked City - Infrastructure reconfigurations and urban change in the North and South (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City
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Cities around the world are undergoing profound changes. In this
global era, we live in a world of rising knowledge economies,
digital technologies, and awareness of environmental issues. The
so-called "modern infrastructural ideal" of spatially and socially
ubiquitous centrally-governed infrastructures providing exclusive,
homogeneous services over extensive areas, has been the standard of
reference for the provision of basic essential services, such as
water and energy supply. This book argues that, after decades of
undisputed domination, this ideal is being increasingly questioned
and that the network ideology that supports it may be waning. In
order to begin exploring the highly diverse, fluid and unstable
landscapes emerging beyond the networked city, this book identifies
dynamics through which a 'break' with previous configurations has
been operated, and new brittle zones of socio-technical controversy
through which urban infrastructure (and its wider meaning) are
being negotiated and fought over. It uncovers, across a diverse set
of urban contexts, new ways in which processes of urbanization and
infrastructure production are being combined with crucial
sociopolitical implications: through shifting political economies
of infrastructure which rework resource distribution and value
creation; through new infrastructural spaces and territorialities
which rebundle socio-technical systems for particular interests and
claims; and through changing offsets between individual and
collective appropriation, experience and mobilization of
infrastructure. With contributions from leading authorities in the
field and drawing on theoretical advances and original empirical
material, this book is a major contribution to an ongoing
infrastructural turn in urban studies, and will be of interest to
all those concerned by the diverse forms and contested outcomes of
contemporary urban change across North and South.
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