Infrastructural Times: Temporality and the Making of Global Urban Worlds

Infrastructural Times: Temporality and the Making of Global Urban Worlds
ISBN-10
152922974X
ISBN-13
9781529229745
Category
Social Science
Pages
311
Language
English
Published
2024-03-28
Publisher
Policy Press
Authors
Michael R. Glass, Jen Nelles, Jean-Paul D. Addie

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.

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