Infrastructural Times: Temporality and the Making of Global Urban Worlds - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1529229715 ISBN 13: 9781529229714

Publisher: Bristol University Press, 2024

Synopsis

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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About the Authors

Seth Schindler is Senior Lecturer in Urban Development and Transformation at the University of Manchester.

Juan Miguel Kanai is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Sheffield.

Jessica DiCarlo is the Chevalier Junior Chair Postdoctoral Fellow in Transportation and Development in China at the University of British Columbia’s School of Public Policy and Global Affairs.

Samantha Biglieri is Assistant Professor in the School of Urban and Regional Planning at Ryerson University, Canada.

Roger Keil is Professor and York Research Chair in Global Sub/Urban Studies at York University, Canada.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bristol University Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1529229715
• ISBN 13: 9781529229714
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 310
• Editor: Addie Jean-Paul D., Glass Michael R., Nelles Jen