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This Chapter sets out a conceptual framework for exploring the politics of urban infrastructure drawing on a variety of resources from across urban studies and science and technology studies (STS). By engaging with, and bringing together, debates around sustainability transition processes, urban materialities and ecological urbanisms, it develops an overarching perspective on the material politics of urban socio-technical change which situates theoretically the stories of urban infrastructure of the following chapters.

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  1. 1.

    I understand socio-technical as a move beyond an artificial distinction between social and technical aspects, components and actors of systemic change processes and thus to speak constantly and symmetrically across the two to underscore their always already intertwined and co-evolutionary formation. This ‘seamless web’ allows analysis of relations between actors, their interests, rationalities and purposes, and to take seriously the make-up and materiality of the technologies and instruments deployed, in a perspective which stresses that these are mutually (and indissociably) shaping of potentials and limits.

  2. 2.

    Recent reports and publications on various topics from international organizations such as the World Bank, the OECD and the European Commission have highlighted this point, while The Guardian, the New York Times, Le Monde and other media outlets either have ‘cities’ pages or run frequent reports on urban issues.

  3. 3.

    This understanding reflects the perspectives and practices of ‘heterogeneous engineering’ on the ground where those ‘doing’ infrastructure are simultaneously laying and maintaining material systems and components and deploying and working organizational arrangements, values, imaginaries, etc. (Law 1987).

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    See below, but it is important to note the infiltration of this kind of thinking into ‘transitions’.

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Rutherford, J. (2020). Introduction: Redeploying Urban Infrastructure. In: Redeploying Urban Infrastructure. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17887-1_1

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