Infrastructuring Urban Futures: The Politics of Remaking Cities

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Focusing on material and social forms of infrastructure, this edited collection draws on rich empirical details from cities across the global North and South. The book asks the reader to think through the different ways in which infrastructure comes to be present in cities and its co-constitutive relationships with urban inhabitants and wider processes of urbanisation. Considering the climate emergency, economic transformation, public health crises, and racialized inequality, the book argues that paying attention to infrastructures' past, present and future allows us to understand and respond to the current urban condition.

Alan Wiig is an Associate Professor in the Urban Planning and Community Development Department at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Kevin Ward is a Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Manchester. Theresa Enright is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. Mike Hodson is a Professor at the Alliance Manchester Business School at the University of Manchester. Hamil Pearsall is an Associate Professor in the Geography and Urban Studies Department at Temple University. Jonathan Silver is a Senior Research Fellow at The Urban Institute at the University of Sheffield.