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"[Urban Infrastructure] is an exercise in empirical enrichment that defies conventional modes of conceptualizing infrastructure and offers instead real tools for grappling with the interconnections that animate a changing world.--Anne Rademacher, New York University Ranging across topics, times, and places, this expansive collection illuminates and expands the history of urban infrastructure. Its rich and often surprising case studies propose new approaches and interpretations that will generate important discussions in multiple disciplines.--Margaret Crawford, University of California, Berkeley The volume gains in diversity by offering interesting insights and objects that are considered an infrastructure.--Dhan Zunino Singh, National University of Quilmes, Argentina ""Urban Infrastructure revolutionizes our understanding of urban infrastructure. The editors bring together a stunningly rich array of voices, case studies, and disciplinary perspectives to reveal how different forms of infrastructure have impacted people, places, and environments around the world."" --Christoph Lindner, dean of the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, University College London ""Ranging across topics, times, and places, this expansive collection illuminates and expands the history of urban infrastructure. Its rich and often surprising case studies propose new approaches and interpretations that will generate important discussions in multiple disciplines."" --Margaret Crawford, University of California, Berkeley ""[Urban Infrastructure] is an exercise in empirical enrichment that defies conventional modes of conceptualizing infrastructure and offers instead real tools for grappling with the interconnections that animate a changing world."" --Anne Rademacher, New York University ""The volume gains in diversity by offering interesting insights and objects that are considered an infrastructure."" --Dhan Zunino Singh, National University of Quilmes, Argentina Urban Infrastructure revolutionizes our understanding of urban infrastructure. The editors bring together a stunningly rich array of voices, case studies, and disciplinary perspectives to reveal how different forms of infrastructure have impacted people, places, and environments around the world.--Christoph Lindner, dean of the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, University College London"

[Urban Infrastructure] revolutionizes our understanding of urban infrastructure. The editors bring together a stunningly rich array of voices, case studies, and disciplinary perspectives to reveal how different forms of infrastructure have impacted on people, places, and environments around the world. --Professor Christoph Lindner, Dean of The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, University College London Ranging across topics, times, and places, this expansive collection illuminates and expands the history of urban infrastructure. Its' rich and often surprising case studies propose new approaches and interpretations that will generate important discussions in multiple disciplines. -- Margaret Crawford, University of California, Berkeley

[Urban Infrastructure] revolutionizes our understanding of urban infrastructure. The editors bring together a stunningly rich array of voices, case studies, and disciplinary perspectives to reveal how different forms of infrastructure have impacted on people, places, and environments around the world. --Professor Christoph Lindner, Dean of The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, University College London Ranging across topics, times, and places, this expansive collection illuminates and expands the history of urban infrastructure. Its' rich and often surprising case studies propose new approaches and interpretations that will generate important discussions in multiple disciplines. -- Margaret Crawford, University of California, Berkeley

"""[Urban Infrastructure] is an exercise in empirical enrichment that defies conventional modes of conceptualizing infrastructure and offers instead real tools for grappling with the interconnections that animate a changing world."" --Anne Rademacher, New York University ""The volume gains in diversity by offering interesting insights and objects that are considered an infrastructure."" --Dhan Zunino Singh, National University of Quilmes, Argentina ""Urban Infrastructure revolutionizes our understanding of urban infrastructure. The editors bring together a stunningly rich array of voices, case studies, and disciplinary perspectives to reveal how different forms of infrastructure have impacted people, places, and environments around the world."" --Christoph Lindner, dean of the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, University College London ""Ranging across topics, times, and places, this expansive collection illuminates and expands the history of urban infrastructure. Its rich and often surprising case studies propose new approaches and interpretations that will generate important discussions in multiple disciplines."" --Margaret Crawford, University of California, Berkeley"

Urban Infrastructure revolutionizes our understanding of urban infrastructure. The editors bring together a stunningly rich array of voices, case studies, and disciplinary perspectives to reveal how different forms of infrastructure have impacted people, places, and environments around the world. --Christoph Lindner, dean of the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, University College London Ranging across topics, times, and places, this expansive collection illuminates and expands the history of urban infrastructure. Its rich and often surprising case studies propose new approaches and interpretations that will generate important discussions in multiple disciplines. --Margaret Crawford, University of California, Berkeley

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Joseph Heathcott (Editor) Joseph Heathcott teaches at the New School in New York, where he serves as chair of Urban and Environmental Studies and codirector of the Research Hub in the Milano School for Policy, Management, and Environment. He is coauthor (with Anglea Dietz) of Capturing the City: Photographs from the Streets of St. Louis, 1900-1930. Jonathan Soffer (Editor) Jonathan Soffer is professor of history at New York University Tandon School of Engineering and associated faculty in the NYU Department of History. He is the author of Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York. Rae Zimmerman (Editor) Rae Zimmerman is research professor and professor emerita of planning and public administration at New York University's Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, previously full-time professor, and currently directs NYU-Wagner's Institute for Civil Infrastructure Systems. She is the author of Transport, the Environment, and Security and Governmental Management of Chemical Risk and coeditor and coauthor of other publications on infrastructure, disaster planning, and climate change.

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