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The politics of governing cities, infrastructures and resource flows : spaces of reproduction or reconfiguration?

Hodson, M; Marvin, S

Authors

M Hodson

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
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