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This book explores urban futures in the making, as seen through the lens of urban infrastructure. The book describes how socio-technical arrangements of energy and water provision are being recast in continuing efforts towards realising ‘sustainable’ transformation of cities. It critically investigates how infrastructure comes to matter by analyzing the shifting capacities and entanglements of diverse actors with these systems, the various means they use to envision, enact and contest changes, and the wide-ranging social and political implications of emerging infrastructure transitions. Drawing on original research into urban infrastructure debates and projects in Stockholm and Paris, the author develops a novel conceptual framework for studying and acknowledging the active, vital role of infrastructure in constituting a material politics of urban transformation. Straddling the latest theoretical insights and empirical investigation of urban planning practice and socio-technical engineering of systems and flows, Redeploying Urban Infrastructure forges new, timely reflections and perspectives which will be of interest to the growing multidisciplinary community of scholars investigating infrastructure and to academics and practitioners with a concern for understanding the wider politics of urban futures. Jonathan Rutherford holds a research post at LATTS (Laboratoire Techniques, Territoires et Sociétés), Université Paris Est and Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, France.

Sociology, Urban. --- Human Geography. --- Urban Studies/Sociology. --- Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns). --- Environmental Geography. --- Anthropo-geography --- Anthropogeography --- Geographical distribution of humans --- Social geography --- Anthropology --- Geography --- Human ecology --- Urban sociology --- Cities and towns --- Sustainable urban development --- Infrastructure (Economics) --- Effect of technological innovations on --- Villes --- Urbanisme durable --- Infrastructure (Économie politique) --- Effets des innovations sur --- Urban geography. --- Environmental geography. --- Human geography.

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Imperialism. --- Masculinity --- Sex role --- Brooke, Rupert, --- Lawrence, T. E. --- Powell, J. Enoch --- Great Britain --- England --- Foreign relations. --- Social conditions.

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Cities around the world are undergoing profound changes. In this global era, we live in a world of rising knowledge economies, digital technologies, and awareness of environmental issues. The so-called "modern infrastructural ideal" of spatially and socially ubiquitous centrally-governed infrastructures providing exclusive, homogeneous services over extensive areas, has been the standard of reference for the provision of basic essential services, such as water and energy supply. This book argues that, after decades of undisputed domination, this ideal is being increasingly questioned and that the network ideology that supports it may be waning. In order to begin exploring the highly diverse, fluid and unstable landscapes emerging beyond the networked city, this book identifies dynamics through which a 'break' with previous configurations has been operated, and new brittle zones of socio-technical controversy through which urban infrastructure (and its wider meaning) are being negotiated and fought over. It uncovers, across a diverse set of urban contexts, new ways in which processes of urbanization and infrastructure production are being combined with crucial sociopolitical implications: through shifting political economies of infrastructure which rework resource distribution and value creation; through new infrastructural spaces and territorialities which rebundle socio-technical systems for particular interests and claims; and through changing offsets between individual and collective appropriation, experience and mobilization of infrastructure. With contributions from leading authorities in the field and drawing on theoretical advances and original empirical material, this book is a major contribution to an ongoing infrastructural turn in urban studies, and will be of interest to all those concerned by the diverse forms and contested outcomes of contemporary urban change across North and South. [Publisher]

Infrastructure (Economics) --- Urbanization. --- Urban ecology (Sociology) --- Information technology. --- Telecommunication. --- Municipal services. --- Regional development. --- Infrastructures de transport --- Urbanisation --- Ecologie urbaine --- Technologie de l'information --- Télécommunications --- Services municipaux --- Développement régional --- Urbanization --- Urban ecology (Biology) --- Telecommunication --- Municipal services --- Infrastructure (économie politique) --- Écologie urbaine --- Réseaux urbains --- Télécommunications --- Développement régional --- Urbanisation. --- Écologie urbaine. --- Réseaux urbains. --- Télécommunications. --- Regional planning. --- Sociology of environment --- Environmental planning --- Economic geography --- Infrastructure (économie politique) --- Écologie urbaine. --- Réseaux urbains. --- Télécommunications.

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Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Masculinity --- Men --- Sex role