Full Description
Whether waiting for the train or planning the future city, infrastructure orders—and depends on—multiple urban temporalities.
This agenda-setting volume disrupts conventional notions of time through a robust examination of the relations between temporality, infrastructure, and urban society. Conceptually rich and empirically detailed, its interdisciplinary dialogue encompasses infrastructural systems including transportation, energy, and water to bridge often-siloed technical, political-economic and lived perspectives.
With global coverage of diverse cities and regions from Berlin to Jayapura, this book is an essential provocation to re-evaluate urban theory, politics, and practice and better account for the temporal complexities that shape our infrastructured worlds.
Contents
1. Time for a Global Infrastructure Turn - Jean-Paul D. Addie, Michael R. Glass, Jen Nelles, Lauren Marino
2. Rhythmic Infrastructure - Jean-Paul D. Addie
Part 1: Infrastructural Pasts, Presents, and Futures
3. Usable Infrastructure Pasts: Mobilizing History for Urban Technology Futures - Timothy Moss
4. Shifting Regimes of Historicity and the Control of Urban Futures Through Infrastructures: Continuities, Ambivalences, and Tensions in the Anthropocene - Olivier Coutard
5. Extensions as Infrastructure: The Temporalities Between Subjugation and Liberation in Jayapura, West Papua - AbdouMaliq Simone
Part 2: Development Times and the Making of Urban Worlds
6. Sequencing Like a State: Ciudad Guayana and the Infrastructures of Arrival - Peter Ekman
7. The Times of Infrastructure Fundamentalism: Future Profits, Slow Operations, Long-term Impacts - Seth Schindler and J. Miguel Kanai
8. Dissonant Times: The Land-Infrastructure-Finance Nexus in Post-Mubarak Egypt - Dalia Wahdan and Tamer Elshayal
Part 3: Times of Disruption/Disrupting Times
9. The Multiple Temporalities of Self-Healing Infrastructure: From the F-15 Fighter to the Smart Urban Microgrid - Simon Marvin and Jonathon Rutherford
10. Speed, Suspension, and Stasis: Waiting in the Shadow of Infrastructure - Jessica DiCarlo
11. Desynchronized Infrastructures of Care: Suburban Imaginaries Re-Examined - Samantha Biglieri and Roger Keil
12. Disrupting Infrastructure: Space, Speed, and Street Governance - Amelia Thorpe
13. Urban Infrastructure In and Out of Time - Jean-Paul D. Addie, Michael R. Glass, and Jen Nelles
