Placing splintering urbanism: Introduction

Coutard, Olivier

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2008.10.008

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“…However, in practice, things have not always turned out as planned or desired even for the powerful. I suggest in agreement with critiques of splintering urbanism that the current state of Mumbai's taxi industry is a not a simple “unbundling” (Graham and Marvin , 41) or contest between those who valorize neoliberal market‐centric regimes and those who “resist” them (Coutard ; Wissink ; Zerah ). Even in the face of dominant splintering discourses, change is being shaped by a variety of forces.…”

Section: Market Transformations and “Global” Visions: Infrastructure supporting

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Taxi Drivers, Infrastructures, and Urban Change in Globalizing Mumbai

Bedi

2016

City & Society

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This paper focusses on taxis and the taxi industry in relationship to crisis and change in contemporary Mumbai. Through an ethnographic exploration of Mumbai's taxi modernization project, changes in the material aspects of the taxi and taxi system, and a community of hereditary taxi drivers known as chillia, I examine ways that infrastructure is understood, practiced, and contested. Focusing on how chillia drivers negotiate livelihoods in the context of contemporary moves to modernize, deregulate, and privatize the taxi trade, I argue that while rationalizing imperatives of infrastructural modernization are vital to jumpstarting urban change, they contend with multiple and shifting meanings that infrastructure building takes on among various actors in the city. Mumbai's taxi modernization project illuminates how negotiations around these meanings have the capacity to shape and redirect urban change both from “above” and “below.” [Urban Infrastructure; Globalization; Labor; Transportation; South Asia; Taxis; India]

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Section: Market Transformations and “Global” Visions: Infrastructure supporting

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Taxi Drivers, Infrastructures, and Urban Change in Globalizing Mumbai

Bedi

2016

City & Society

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“…Opening the ‘black box’ of infrastructure has rapidly emerged as a major concern for geographers and urban scholars. More than banal engineered artefacts and technological systems, a robust literature now examines infrastructure as a critical object of analysis to think through the politics, ecology, social relations and everyday experiences of urban life (Angelo and Hentschel ; Coutard ; Easterling ; Graham and Marvin ; Graham and McFarlane ; Swyngedouw ; Young et al . ).…”

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Theorising suburban infrastructure: a framework for critical and comparative analysis

Addie

2016

Trans Inst British Geog

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Suburban infrastructure holds a position of increasing geographic, political and conceptual importance in a rapidly urbanising world. However, the analytical significance of ‘suburban infrastructure’ risks becoming bogged down as a chaotic concept amid the maelstrom of contemporary peripheral urban growth and the explosion of interest in infrastructure in critical urban studies. This paper develops an open and flexible comparative theory of suburban infrastructure. I eschew concerns with definitional bounding to focus analytical attention on the relations between ‘the suburban’ (broadly considered) and multiple hard and soft infrastructures. These relations are captured in two ‘three‐dimensional’ dialectical triads: the first unpacks the modalities of infrastructure in, for and of suburbs; the second discloses the political economic processes (suburbanisation), lived experience (suburbanism) and dynamics of mediation internalised by particular suburban infrastructures. Bringing these conceptual frames together constructs a nine‐cell matrix that: (1) functions as a heuristic device providing conceptual clarity when discussing the suburbanity of infrastructures; (2) promotes comparative analysis across diverse global suburban contexts; and (3) develops tools to foreground the dialectical relations internalised in the concrete sociospatial modalities of suburban infrastructure. The paper shows that suburban infrastructure can only ever be partially suburban as a result of its co‐constituted and over‐determined production. I conclude by suggesting how the proposed approach may be mobilised to reimagine and reclaim suburban infrastructure as a crucial context and vital mechanism underpinning a progressive polycentric suburban spatial polity.

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“…Dans ces dernières, les réseaux sont considérés comme des « systèmes sociotechniques », c'est-à-dire comme des assemblages composés d'objets techniques et d'acteurs humains enchâssés dans des relations sociales qui s'influencent réciproquement et ne peuvent pas être compris séparément (Hughes, 1993). Ces travaux montrent que la forme de distribution en grand réseau centralisé est indissociable du processus de développement des villes en Europe et en Amérique du Nord, si bien que leur fonctionnement contemporain en est fortement dépendant (Dupuy et Tarr, 1988 ;Offner et Pumain, 1996 ;Lorrain, 2001 ;Coutard, 2008). En particulier, ils mettent en avant une logique de diffusion de ces infrastructures à l'ensemble des espaces urbains : la croissance du réseau prime et la production qu'il vise à distribuer doit suivre.…”

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Distribuer la chaleur fatale des entreprises : la construction dynamique d’un réseau d’énergie décarbonée, entre flux et infrastructure

Hampikian¹

2017

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Placing splintering urbanism: Introduction

Cited by 138 publications

References 23 publications

Taxi Drivers, Infrastructures, and Urban Change in Globalizing Mumbai

Taxi Drivers, Infrastructures, and Urban Change in Globalizing Mumbai

Theorising suburban infrastructure: a framework for critical and comparative analysis

Distribuer la chaleur fatale des entreprises : la construction dynamique d’un réseau d’énergie décarbonée, entre flux et infrastructure

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