Handbook of Infrastructures and Cities

Edited by Olivier Coutard, CNRS Researcher, Laboratoire Techniques, Territoires, Sociétés (LATTS), Ecole des Ponts and Université Gustave Eiffel and Daniel Florentin, Assistant Professor in Environment and Urban Studies, Mines Paris PSL (ISIGE, CSI), and Associate Researcher, LATTS, France

• Contents:1 Researching infrastructures and cities: origins, debates, openings 1Olivier Coutard and Daniel FlorentinPART I VALUE(S) AND VALUATION OF INFRASTRUCTURES2 Capture and control: two intersecting logics of infrastructure finance 49Philip Ashton3 Power disruptions: power system reconfigurations reassembling the state 63Costanza Concetti4 Smart city new deals: unpacking the recursive entanglements ofinfrastructures and administrations 77Julia Valeska Schröder, Claudia Mendes and Ignacio Farías5 Commoning roads: maintenance and the labour of infrastructure 92Alexander Paulsson and Jens Alm6 Intermediate and interminable: a railway regeneration drama in two acts 102Nacima Baron and Yassine Khelladi7 Urban infrastructures’ maturity and the age(s) of maintenance 117Jérôme Denis and Daniel FlorentinPART II THE MANY FACES OF CONTEMPORARY INFRASTRUCTURATION8 Security as infrastructure: controlling the rhythms and spacetimes of the city 131Damien Carrière and Priyam Tripathy9 Financial infrastructure and the production of the built environment 144Ludovic Halbert10 Landscape interpretations of infrastructure-led developments: plans,spaces and appropriations in contemporary China 158Leonardo Ramondetti11 Spectrums of infrastructural hybridity: insights from urban Africa fora propositional research agenda 176Liza Rose Cirolia and Andrea Pollio12 Material politics on and off the grid in Sub-Saharan African urbanelectricity configurations: an essay on hybrid urbanism 193Sylvy Jaglin, Mélanie Rateau and Emmanuelle Guillou13 Infrastructures, practices and the materiality of daily life: revisitingurban metabolism 209Olivier Coutard and Elizabeth ShovePART III INFRASTRUCTURAL VIOLENCE ON SPACES, SOCIETIESAND BODIES14 First Nations foundations: cities and the infrastructuring of settler colonisation 223Holly Randell-Moon15 Infrastructural violence and its temporalities 237Kei Otsuki16 Representing infrastructural violence: artistic engagements withLebanon’s waste crisis 252Hanna Baumann17 Contesting mobility injustices and infrastructural violence: the frictionsarising from a modern transportation project in Hanoi, Vietnam 268Sarah Turner and Binh N. Nguyen18 Urban motorways inducing mobility and immobility 280Oscar Figueroa, Carole Gurdon and Paulette Landon19 Street-side citizenships: claim-making and the reordering of streets inIndian cities 292Yogi Joseph, Sreelakshmi Ramachandran and Govind Gopakumar20 Multiple publics, disjunctures, and hybrid systems: how marginalisedgroups stake their claims to transport infrastructure 307Lindsay Blair Howe, Margot Rubin, Sarah Charlton, Muhammed Suleman,Alexandra Parker, and Anselmo Cani21 Infrastructural citizenship in post-networked contexts: hybridity inSouth Africa 319Charlotte LemanskiPART IV THE INFRASTRUCTUROCENE AND ITS DISCONTENTS22 Seeing like an urban service operator: making urban circulations ofmatter and energy legible in the digital age 336Morgan Mouton23 Coding urban metabolism: infrastructuring metabolic pathways 349Pierre Desvaux24 Material knowledge and practices in the making of a building resourceout of excavated soils: a case study in the Paris Region 362Jean Goizauskas and Carole-Anne Tisserand25 The resistance of centralised socio-technical systems: the ‘dynamicstatus quo’ between centralised wastewater sanitation and decentralisedstorm water management in France 371José-Frédéric Deroubaix and Julie Gobert26 Post-socialist urban infrastructures: learning from systems of less 386Tauri Tuvikene, Wladimir Sgibnev and Carola S. Neugebauer27 Science, technology and society studies perspectives on urbanresponses to infrastructural breakdown 400Anique Hommels28 Re-negotiating infrastructural boundaries in urban spaces: roadmaintenance as a dualistic mode of infrastructuring 413Roman Solé-PomiesPART V CONCLUSION29 Getting to work on time: the temporalities of urban infrastructure 427Jean-Paul Addie

‘Entering the realm of infrastructures is of prime importance for anyone wishing to understand contemporary urban issues, whether social, ecological, political or technical – and often all at once. This indispensable Handbook provides guidance on the keys issues from an interdisciplinary perspective, giving a place to cities of the north and south, and highlighting the social forces and impacts of urban materiality.’