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Urban Infrastructure - Interdisciplinary Perspectives from History and the Social Sciences (Hardcover)
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Urban Infrastructure - Interdisciplinary Perspectives from History and the Social Sciences (Hardcover)
Series: Pittsburgh Hist Urban Environment
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Urban Infrastructures creates space for an encounter between
historians, humanists, and social scientists who seek new
methodological approaches to the history of urban infrastructure.
It draws on recent work across history, anthropology, science and
technology studies, geography, resilience/sustainability, and other
disciplines to explore the social effects of infrastructure. The
volume rejects narrow conceptions of infrastructure history as only
the history of public works, and instead expands the definition to
all business enterprises and public bodies that provide the goods
and services essential for the day-to-day lives of most people.
Essays examine traditional artifacts such as roads, highways, and
waterworks, as well as nontraditional topics like regimes of
heating and cooling, the processing and distribution of food, and
even the metaphysics of electromagnetic infrastructure.
Contributors reveal both the material grounding of urban social
relations and the social life of material infrastructure. In the
end, they show that infrastructure profoundly reshapes urban life
even as residents fight to reshape infrastructure to their own
ends.
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