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xiii, 247 p. : ill. ; map. ; 24 cm. 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 -- edited by Stephen Graham and Colin McFarlane. "Earthscan from Routledge." Includes bibliographical references and index. Sociology, Urban Urban economics Municipal services Infrastructure (Economics) Social aspects HT151 I536 2015 307.76 9780415748513 9780415748537 9781315775098 pucpr 140328 20250414113535.0 eng