Infrastructures in Action

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Infrastructures shape how resources flow through the city and influence social disparities. However, infrastructural systems are not fixed and their implications change through political and economic transformation, technological shifts and citizen mobilisation.

The theme examines how infrastructure in cities and across states influences the movements of resources, people and finance and shapes urban social and ecological (in)equalities.

Research Questions

  • How are infrastructures planned and managed and what does this mean for resource flows, access and urban development?
  • How do people, cities and states influence urban conditions through infrastructuralisation?
  • Can infrastructure in action tackle social divisions through socio-technical innovation, common ownership and solidarity?
  • How can we compare infrastructure in action across diverse scales, processes and contexts?

People

Theme Lead: Jonathan Silver

UI Members: Hita Unnikrishnan

Associates: Juan Miguel Kanai | Lindsay Sawyer | Alex Baker | Richard Goulding

Interrogations

Publications

Journal articles
  • Silver J (2019) . Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 2514848619890513.
  • Wiig A & Silver J (2019) . Regional Studies 53(6): 912-923.
  • Schindler S & Kanai JM (2019)  Regional Studies 1-12.
  • Kanai JM & Schindler S (2019)  Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 51(2): 302-322.
  • Lawhon M, Nilsson D, Silver J, Ernstson H, & Lwasa S (2018)  55(4): 720-732.
  • Karaman O, Sawyer L, Schmid C & Wong K P (2020) Plot by Plot: Plotting Urbanism as an Ordinary Process of Urbanisation. Antipode 52: 4. 1122-1151 .
Books
  • Luque-Ayala A & Silver J eds. (2016) . London: Routledge.
Reports and other outputs
  • Silver J & Wiig A (2019)  The Conversation, 27 March 2019.
  • Schindler S and Kanai JM (2019) , The Conversation, 31 October 2019.

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