Redeploying Urban Infrastructure: The Politics of Urban Socio-Technical Futures 9783030178871, 3030178870

This book explores urban futures in the making, as seen through the lens of urban infrastructure. The book describes how

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English Pages 191 Year 2019

Redeploying Urban Infrastructure: The Politics of Urban Socio-Technical Futures
9783030178871, 3030178870

This book explores urban futures in the making, as seen through the lens of urban infrastructure. The book describes how

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Hatim El-Hibri explores how the creation and circulation of images has shaped the urban spaces and cultural imaginaries

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Cities are the future. In the past two decades, a global urban revolution has taken place, mainly in the South. The

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Urban problems are now a dominent social issue: the essays in this volume consider the direction some of these problems

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Increasingly, urban actors invoke human rights to address inequalities, combat privatisation, and underline common aspir

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The time to come - as well as the exploration thereof - remains elusive for social actors and social scientists alike. T

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Family life in areas of concentrated poverty and social problems is undermined by surrounding conditions. This timely bo

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Winner of the 2022 Urban Affairs Association Best Book Award. City visions represent shared, and often desirable, expect

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Memory of historical trauma has a unique power to generate works of art. This book analyzes the relation of public memor

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The urban spaces of the future This book compiles speculative contributions on disruptive, nonlinear futures of urban

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