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JOURNAL OF URBAN TECHNOLOGY
Volume 29, Issue 1, Pages 69-77Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/10630732.2021.2007205
Keywords
Temporalities; temporal layering; urban and infrastructural rhythms; temporal alignment
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Urban research has not paid enough attention to the role of urban infrastructures in shaping and ordering urban temporalities. However, studying infrastructures empirically can reveal the relationship between infrastructural change and different temporal orientations, as well as how socio-technical systems affect contemporary and future urbanism through temporal ordering and reordering.
To date, urban research has paid little attention to the role of urban infrastructures in shaping and ordering urban temporalities. I contend that the study of infrastructures offers a powerful lens for understanding the reciprocal relationship changing infrastructural and urban temporalities as well as the power-driven processes of temporal alignment and realignment. Approaching time through the empirical study of infrastructures, I argue, reveals how contemporary infrastructural change is entangled with-often conflicting-orientations to the past, present, and future. At the same time, it uncovers how temporal ordering and reordering processes by socio--technical systems not merely reflect, but also enable, constrain, and preconfigure contemporary and future urbanism. Specifically, periods of infrastructural change, crisis, and failure reveal various temporalities, asynchronisms, and misalignments that are otherwise invisible or neglected but are crucial for the broader understanding of urban change and its governance.
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