infrastructure

Essays

On a Road to Nowhere? Military Urbanism and the Architecture of Segregation

Tim Cunningham - 3 May 2024

Comparing the experiences of Belfast, Northern Ireland, with the United States, Tim Cunningham shows how physical...

Reviews

Episodes from the Social Life of the Delhi Metro

Sneha Mandhan - 20 January 2023

What is the impact of a new metro on a large and growing city? As new metros are cropping up across Asia, Rashmi...

Reviews

Underground Berlin: Where Infrastructure Meets Politics

Clarence Hatton-Proulx & translated by Oliver Waine - 2 December 2022

Water, electricity, gas: in Remaking Berlin, Timothy Moss presents a history of Berlin’s infrastructure networks from...

Reviews

Disposability in the City: A Review of Waste Worlds

Lily Baum Pollans - 5 July 2022

Lily Pollans reviews Jacob Doherty’s Waste Worlds: Inhabiting Kampala’s Infrastructures of Disposability, which shows...

Reviews

Infrastructure Financing and the Bonds of Inequality

Rachel Weber - 19 October 2021

Rachel Weber reviews historian Destin Jenkins’ new book, The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American...

Reviews

“Land Is the New Sugar”: A Review of Sai Balakrishnan’s Shareholder Cities

Thomas Crowley - 15 December 2020

Shareholder Cities argues that India’s urban corridors are driven by complex negotiations, transformations, and power...

From the Field

Sale of the Century: Chicago’s Infrastructure Deals and the Privatization State

Philip Ashton & Marc Doussard & Rachel Weber - 24 November 2020

Since 2004, the City of Chicago has been engaged in a new wave of infrastructure privatizations, selling concessions...

From the Field

Unlikely Inter-Class Cooperation in Urbanizing Rural Colombia

Sebastián F. Villamizar Santamaría - 25 February 2020

Sebastián F. Villamizar Santamaría examines a case of rural gentrification outside of Bogotá, Colombia, and shows how...

From the Field

Bypassing the city: divisions and divergences in Antananarivo

Catherine Fournet-Guérin & translated by Oliver Waine - 4 December 2014

In a context of global competition, major projects are the order of the day, including in the global South. The new...

Essays

For cities of a different nature

Jérémy Grangé & Sylvain Petitet & translated by Oliver Waine - 26 March 2014

City-dwellers want to see more of their metropolitan areas turned over to nature and urban public spaces; however,...

Debates

The digital city: challenges for the future

Serge Wachter & translated by Oliver Waine - 16 May 2012

What is the impact of digital technology on the city and its architecture? Serge Wachter analyses the way in which...

On a Road to Nowhere? Military Urbanism and the Architecture of Segregation

Episodes from the Social Life of the Delhi Metro

Underground Berlin: Where Infrastructure Meets Politics

Disposability in the City: A Review of Waste Worlds

Infrastructure Financing and the Bonds of Inequality

“Land Is the New Sugar”: A Review of Sai Balakrishnan’s Shareholder Cities

Sale of the Century: Chicago’s Infrastructure Deals and the Privatization State

Unlikely Inter-Class Cooperation in Urbanizing Rural Colombia

Bypassing the city: divisions and divergences in Antananarivo

For cities of a different nature

The digital city: challenges for the future

Series

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Moving Inside City Limits: The Urban Mobility of Undocumented Youth

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The Political Aesthetics of Drag

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