M Hodson
The politics of governing cities, infrastructures and resource flows : spaces of reproduction or reconfiguration?
Hodson, M; Marvin, S
Authors
S Marvin
Abstract
This paper develops a theoretical and conceptual understanding of the role of space and politics in governing relationships between cities, critical energy, water, waste and transportation infrastructures and resource flows. It presents a view of cities as dynamic, experimental social spaces underpinned by infrastructural unevenness with variable provision of and access to resource flows. An emerging set of new pressures to the ways in which cities, infrastructure and resource flows are organised under conditions of neo-liberal urbanism is reviewed. The paper then reflects theoretically and conceptually on the ways in which these pressures can be appropriated in terms of the re-organisation of city, networked infrastructure and resource flows as predicated on tensions between transformative reconfiguration and obduracy from historically produced social and institutional coalitions.
Citation
Hodson, M., & Marvin, S. (2011). The politics of governing cities, infrastructures and resource flows : spaces of reproduction or reconfiguration?. Geographica Helvetica, 702-714
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Publication Date | Jan 1, 2011 |
Deposit Date | Jun 21, 2012 |
Journal | Geographica Helvetica |
Print ISSN | 0016-7312 |
Publisher | Copernicus Publications |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 702-714 |
Publisher URL | http://www.geographicahelvetica.unibas.ch/portrait_en.html |