Infrastructural Lives : urban infrastructure in context. / txt
edited by Stephen Graham and Colin McFarlane.
- xiii, 247 p. : ill. ; map. ; 24 cm. book
"Earthscan from Routledge."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: List of figures vii -- Notes on contributors ix -- Foreword by Arjun Appadurai xii -- Introduction STEPHEN GRAHAM AND MCFARLANE 1 -- PART I Knowing infrastructure 15 -- 1 Relational infrastructures in postcolonial urban worlds ABDOUMALIQ SIMONE 17 -- 2 Infra city: Speculations on flux and history in infrastructure making VYJANTHI RAO 39 -- PART II Infrastructural violence and dispossession 59 -- 3 Water wars in Mumbai STHEPHEN GRAHAM, RENU DESAI AND COLIN MCFARLANE 61 -- 4 Waiting in the ruins: the aesthetics and politics of favela urbanization in “PACification” Rio de Janeiro MARIA CAVALCANTI 86 -- 5 Road 443: cementing dispossession, normalizing segregation and disrupting everyday life in Palestine OMAR JABARY SALAMANCA 114 -- PART III Waste, process, infrastructure 137 -- 6 The uncanny materialities of the everyday: domesticated nature as the invisible ‘other’ MARIA KAIKA 139 -- 7 Kampala’s sanitary regime: whose toilet is it anyway? STEPHANIE TERRENI BROWN 153 -- 8 Cleaning up the streets: Newcastle upon Tyne’s night time neighborhood services team ROB SHAW 174 -- PART IV Adjustment and experimentation 197 -- 9 Maintaining experiments and the material agency of the urban VANESA CASTÁN BROYO AND HARRIET BULKELEY 199 -- 10 Low carbon nation: making new market opportunities MIKE HODSON AND SIMON MARVIN 219 -- Index 244 -- Figures: 3.1 Mumbai police stand by piles of water booster pumps removed from informal settlements 61 -- 3.2 The city of Mumbai, 2011, showing municipal wards and the mail Zopadpatti or ‘slum’ areas 65 -- 3.3 Water pipes cut in Rafinagar during the water raids in December 2009 72 -- 3.4 A Bisleri bottled water advert looms large over Mumbai, north of the Fort District 77 -- 3.5 Rafinagar residents waiting at one of the temporary water storage tanks 79 -- 4.1 Rocinha and the pedestrian overpass 94 -- 4.2 The Alemao cable car 95 -- 4.3 The Linha Vermelha 96 -- 4.4 The UPP providencia 97 -- 4.5 The D Sup building in Manguinhos 98 -- 5.1 Road 443 and Highway 1 cutting across the West Bank boundary 115 -- 5.2 Israeli road sections planned over Palestinian agricultural and urban areas 124 -- 5.3 Viaduct for school children under Road 443 127 -- 5.4 Road 443 after ruling of the Israeli High Court of Justice 130 -- 7.1 Congested Nakivubo Channel at Namuwongo 161 -- 8.1 The swingo machine in action 178 -- 8.2 Street cleaner at work 179 -- 8.3 Discarded adversiting leaflets and fast food packaging 185 -- 8.4 Some of the 50,000 on average nightly discarded leaflets 186 -- 8.5 Urination damage 187 -- 8.6 The Gate has suffered urination damage 187 -- 8.7 Urine traces 188 -- 8.8 Grease on the pavement outside McDonald’s 189 -- 8.9 Leaflets stuck to the ground with grease 189 -- 8.10 A seagull scavenger 191 -- 8.11 The overflowing litter bin: input into the waste assemblage 191 -- 8.12 Waste in the kerb awaiting pick up 192 -- 8.13 The range of actants in the urban night streetscape 192 -- 9.1 Sketch of the localization of T Zed in Bangalore 204 -- 10.1 UK offshore wind zones 227 -- 10.2 Plugged in places: electric vehicle infrastructure 230 -- 10.3 The grid and the spatial organization of production and consumption 235 --
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Sociology, Urban. Urban economics. Municipal services. Infrastructure (Economics)--Social aspects.