Post-Socialist Urban Infrastructures

"‘This is an important contribution to how we understand the often over-looked role of urban infrastructure in post-socialist change. Covering a tremendous range of places and debates – from water, heating and transport to the consequences for theory, policy and practice - the book powerfully reveals the centrality of infrastructure for urban life, inequalities, development, and futures’ - Colin McFarlane, Professor of Urban Geography, Durham University, UK 'The rich case studies in Post-Socialist Urban Infrastructures demonstrate how infrastructure can serve as a site for investigating both the surprising persistence of socialist institutions and material forms, and the effects of dramatic liberalization in countries of the former socialist world. More than simply applying the tools of the ""infrastructural turn"" to a new set of cases, the contributions capture the distinctive infrastructure legacy of socialist modernity, as well as the sometimes surprising pathways of post-socialist infrastructural change. The volume impressively spans a range of disciplinary discussions—from urban studies to city planning, geography, and STS—that are rarely brought together in studies of infrastructure in the interpretive social sciences.' - Stephen J. Collier, Professor of City and Regional Planning at University of California, Berkeley, USA ‘This is an important contribution to how we understand the often over-looked role of urban infrastructure in post-socialist change. Covering a tremendous range of places and debates – from water, heating and transport to the consequences for theory, policy and practice - the book powerfully reveals the centrality of infrastructure for urban life, inequalities, development, and futures’ - Colin McFarlane, Professor of Urban Geography, Durham University, UK 'The rich case studies in Post-Socialist Urban Infrastructures demonstrate how infrastructure can serve as a site for investigating both the surprising persistence of socialist institutions and material forms, and the effects of dramatic liberalization in countries of the former socialist world. More than simply applying the tools of the ""infrastructural turn"" to a new set of cases, the contributions capture the distinctive infrastructure legacy of socialist modernity, as well as the sometimes surprising pathways of post-socialist infrastructural change. The volume impressively spans a range of disciplinary discussions—from urban studies to city planning, geography, and STS—that are rarely brought together in studies of infrastructure in the interpretive social sciences.' - Stephen J. Collier, Professor of City and Regional Planning at University of California, Berkeley, USA"