Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10630732.2021.2007202
D. McNeill
ABSTRACT This commentary suggests that Splintering Urbanism provided the tools and metaphors for urbanists to understand how architectural, engineering, and financial knowledge has been brought together to remake urban infrastructure. It uses the concept of volumetric urbanism to illustrate how central cities are segregated, diced, and sliced within their internal structures, and discusses how this perspective opens up the materiality of major urban development projects. The commentary explains how Splintering Urbanism shaped the intellectual terrain for framing how these can be understood as volumetric interventions in the city, retheorizing urban spaces as being stacked and sectioned around reorganized public and private spaces.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10630732.2021.2010301
AbdouMaliq Simone
ABSTRACT This short commentary seeks to supplement the conceptualization of infrastructural splintering with the ways in which the agential functioning of infrastructure—infrastructure as a verb—not only articulates bodies, things, materials, and spaces in cascading relationality, but produces specificities incapable of definitive measure. Here, specific constellations of urban inhabitants refuse to be governed in terms of a calculus that seeks to make judgments about the efficacy of particular living spaces, and their relative sustainability or value. Such specificity is one component of the ways in which infrastructure engenders unsettlement, of both position and sensibility. Part of Splintering Urbanism’s enduring value is found in the multifaceted dimensions of detachment, materialized both in the production of urban operations that resist ready translation into the normative terms of efficacy and in the undermining of normative social relations.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10630732.2021.2004066
K. Furlong
ABSTRACT The goals laid out in Splintering Urbanism have largely been met. Infrastructure is no longer ignored in critical scholarship, technical determinism is broadly challenged, and infrastructure is widely studied in socio-technical and assemblage terms. Going forward, critical engagement with contradiction, confinement, and consumption are worth contemplating. Contradiction emphasizes how infrastructure is often both-and: social investment and capitalist extraction, unifying and divisive, flow and confinement. Confinement, unlike its analog, receives little attention in infrastructure studies. Infrastructures of control and concentration, however, have a long history and have been expanding in recent decades, enrolling and reconfiguring infrastructures of circulation (or flow) in turn. Last but not least, consumption usually comes into infrastructure studies through a concern with processes of exclusion and fragmentation. It is rarely analyzed in critical, socio-technical terms as an active and complex agent that structures and is structured by infrastructures of production. Through these three themes, we can continue to build on the gains of SI@20.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10630732.2021.2004068
P. Guma
ABSTRACT This commentary advances “incompleteness” as an explanatory category for infrastructure processes that do not yield or conform to standard ideals, and a corrective to interventions that regard everything that does not appear to yield or conform as failed. Incompleteness offers a useful lens for approaching infrastructures through situated, contingent, and embodied dimensions. It permits a proper reading of infrastructure as transient, and infrastructure development as a process that is affected not solely by neoliberal interventions but also socio-material practices and inscriptions. As such, incompleteness transcends conventional and completist frames, and complements theorizations of infrastructure since Graham and Marvin’s Splintering Urbanism.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10630732.2021.2005934
S. Graham, Simon Marvin
As the authors of the book we do, indeed, find it hard to believe that it is 20 years since Splintering Urbanism was published. We are delighted, however, to have this opportunity to use this anniversary to look back at the book’s role in the wider so-called urban “infrastructural turn” that has occurred across the humanities and social sciences in the past two decades. We would also like to offer an agenda for future urban infrastructural research. Our aim in writing Splintering Urbanism was to encourage critical social science to move beyond a view of the material, networked infrastructures sustaining urban life as technical, hidden, and taken-for-granted domains. Although in France a much healthier situation pertained, we were frustrated that debates in the Anglophone world about infrastructure tended to be partitioned off from critical urban research, to be addressed overwhelmingly within the sector-specific and techno-economic worlds of engineers and specialized policy makers. It seemed to us that the healthy debates about urban and infrastructural history then underway needed to be balanced by a dramatic growth in analyses of the contemporary dynamics of urban and infrastructural change. Indeed, we made the bold accusation in the book that networked urban services like communications, energy, water, and mobility services remained the “Cinderella” of critical urban research: that urban economic and social geography, especially, featured burgeoning debates about all aspects of more “point-specific” urban services, those that were not organized through complex assemblages of networked technologies strung out across, within, and between places. Full of the boldness of (relative!) youth, we therefore sought in Splintering Urbanism to be ambitious: to problematize the material connectivities sustaining urban life. Indeed, we wanted to demonstrate that an explicit focus on networked materialities, and the many mobilities and connectivities that they sustain, actually provides much-needed analytical purchase to help understand the complex and fast-moving dynamics linking urbanism and globalization, understandings that might cut-across the always problematic partitions within urban debates across advanced capitalist, post-communist, and postcolonial/Global South(s) contexts. We thus aimed in the book to show how the “relational” turn then underway in social and urban theory needed to be extended to encompass the ways in which multiple, networked connections were continually enrolled and invoked in the dynamic processes and
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10630732.2021.2004067
Jennifer Gabrys
ABSTRACT Smart cities typically involve the digitalization of transport and buildings, energy and communications. Yet urban natures are also becoming increasingly digitalized, whether through processes of monitoring, automation, mitigation, or augmentation. This text considers what “splintering urbanisms” materialize through programming nature as infrastructure. By focusing specifically on smart urban forests, I suggest that the management logics of smart infrastructures attempt to program and transform vegetation and its ecologies into uniquely efficient and responsive urban organisms. In the process, these programs of efficiency have the potential to exacerbate extractive economies and social inequalities that amplify and materialize through the “Internet of nature.”
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10630732.2021.2004069
R. Keil
ABSTRACT Disappointingly to many who grew up at the time, promises of flying cars in the 1960s as a future form of urban transportation were not kept. That future never arrived. In this short commentary, I want to board the metaphorical flying car and steer it into a different direction. At the height of the first wave of Covid-19, a more widespread sentiment took hold that saw the anticipation of increased mobilities dashed by a general anticipation of disaster considered typical for our age today. We might conclude: We don't get the technologies we want because we have left the era of technological progress and entered the era of risk and anticipation of disaster. My commentary appreciates and discusses the lessons we can learn from Splintering Urbanism for our period of pandemic urbanism. How does the kind of networked urbanism that the book examines and critiques provide a framework in which we can understand the emergence, presence, and management of the pandemic as it affects our urban world today?
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10630732.2022.2026162
M. Sheller
ABSTRACT Covid-19 has made self-evident the insidious effects of infrastructural splintering, especially in the United States, which are the outcome of the very processes first identified by Stephen Graham and Simon Marvin 20 years ago. Splintered infrastructures have left behind unequal access to safe streets, public transit, urban green space, social distancing, and remote work, revealing deep racial, ethnic, and class disparities in risk exposure and vulnerability. Inequitable mobilities within splintered infrastructural contexts are key contributing factors to the vast racial and ethnic disparities seen in SARS-CoV-2 exposure and death rates in the United States. This brief commentary on the intersection of infrastructure studies and critical mobility studies argues that a racial justice perspective offers an understanding of the materialities of injustice at multiple sites and scales that have shaped the pandemic in such uneven and detrimental ways. Focusing on the US context, it centers the racialized kinopolitics of American history at the heart of the Covid-19 pandemic. Beyond the unmaking of splintered urbanism—or a dream of universal infrastructure—pandemic recovery requires mobility justice as a reweaving of fugitive planning represented by critical ideas such as commoning, Marronage, and the undercommons.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10630732.2021.2001717
V. C. Broto
ABSTRACT On the anniversary of the publication of Splintering Urbanism, climate breakdown heralds a new era in public investment in infrastructure. However, current proposals for infrastructure overlook two decades of work in infrastructure studies. For example, both the Green New Deal advanced by activists in the United States and the European Green Deal, proposed by the European Commission, establish a dual logic between investments in centralized systems and off-grid systems that reinforce, rather than challenge, the infrastructure models critiqued in Splintering Urbanism. The lessons of Splintering Urbanism debates, such as the rise of post-networked conditions of living in dialogue with everyday practices of living with and against infrastructures, are still missing from the policies that will likely shape urban futures.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10630732.2021.2009288
K. Saguin, María Álvarez
ABSTRACT Infrastructure and the spatial practices that coalesce around them come to matter in multiple ways. Building on the legacy of splintering urbanism and subsequent appraisals, we explore the paradoxes of infrastructural spaces in a Global South city. In Manila, urban infrastructure plays a central role in enabling evictions in city spaces marked as “danger zones,” and in inhabiting “death zones” in the peripheries where evictees are resettled. This piece employs a relational view of the tensions between the dispossessive and sustaining work of infrastructure to extend the spatial metaphors of urban infrastructure and to illuminate political possibilities built around connections.
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