Urban infrastructuring : reconfigurations, transformations and sustainability in the Global South / Deljana Iossifova, Alexandros Gasparatos, Stylianos Zavos, Yahya Gamal, Yin Long, editors.
Iossifova, Deljana.; Gasparatos, Alexandros.; Zavos, Stylianos.; Gamal, Yahya.; Long, Yin.
2022
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Title Urban infrastructuring : reconfigurations, transformations and sustainability in the Global South / Deljana Iossifova, Alexandros Gasparatos, Stylianos Zavos, Yahya Gamal, Yin Long, editors.
ISBN 9789811683527 (electronic bk.)
9811683522 (electronic bk.)
9789811683510
9811683514
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8352-7
Published Singapore : Springer, 2022.
Copyright ©2022
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xii, 327 pages)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-981-16-8352-7 doi
Call Number HT166 .U72 2022eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 307.76
Summary This book is about urban infrastructuring as the processes linking infrastructural configurations and their components with other social, ecological, political, or otherwise defined systems as part of urbanisation and globalisation in the Global South. It suggests that infrastructuring is essential to urbanisation and that it is entangled with socio-spatio-ecological transformations that often have negative outcomes over time. Furthermore, it argues that infrastructuring requires an ethical positioning in research and practice in order to enhance infrastructural sustainability in the face of intersecting environmental, social and economic crises. "Urban Infrastructuring" is developed in three parts. First, it identifies infrastructural entanglements across various urban and urbanising settings in the Global South. Second, it highlights some of the damaging processes and outcomes of urban infrastructuring and argues that the absence, presence and transformation of infrastructure in the Global South (re- )produces socioecological injustice in the short- and long term. Third, the book argues for a shift of infrastructuring agendas towards more just and sustainable interventions. It suggests that an ethico-politics of care should be embedded in systems approaches to infrastructuring in both research and practice. The edited volume contains contributions from authors with backgrounds in a variety of academic disciplines from the natural and social sciences, engineering and the humanities. It provides valuable insights for anyone concerned with the study, design, planning, implementation and maintenance of urban infrastructures to enhance human well-being and sustainability. It will be of interest to researchers and urban decision-makers alike
Note Includes index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed May 3, 2022).
Added Author Iossifova, Deljana.
Gasparatos, Alexandros.
Zavos, Stylianos.
Gamal, Yahya.
Long, Yin.
Series Sustainable development goals series.
Available in Other Form Urban Infrastructuring.
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Urban Infrastructuring: Trajectories of Infrastructural Entanglement in Cities of the Global South
Part I. Infrastructural entanglements
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The Infrastructures of Land: Heterogeneous Land Administration in Urban Ghana
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Part II. Infrastructuring (unequal) relationships
Building Inequality: Infrastructure and Intra-urban Inequality in the Capitalist City
Creating Age-Friendly Informal Settlements? Challenges to Enabling Health and Well-being for Older People in Informal Urban Harare
Transitioning Infrastructures and Socio-Cultural Practices at the Idol-Making Cluster of Kolkata's Kumartuli
Construction Site Assemblages: Relationships of Synergy and Exploitation in the (Re)configuration of Lekki, Nigeria
One Size Does Not Fit All: Sanitation Solutions in Shanghai's Older and Under-Serviced Inner-City Neighbourhoods
Manufacturing Open Defecation Free Cities: Punishing People and Collapsing Toilets, Unpacking Paradoxes of Mumbai's Sanitation Landscape
Part III. Infrastructuring just trajectories
Modelling Chinese Urban Residential Stock Turnover Uncertainties Using System Dynamics and Bayesian Statistical Inference
A Strategic Planning Problem: The Relationship Between Urban Transformation Outcomes and the Temporal Order of Planned Projects
The Importance of Social Infrastructure in Supporting Physical Infrastructure and Enabling the Development of Sustainable Cities
Architecture, Sanitation and COVID-19: Design Interventions in Resource-Limited Settings (Accra, Ghana)
Speculative Futures of Global South Infrastructures
Infrastructuring with Care in Cities of the Global South.

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