Format: Hardback
Pages: 300
ISBN: 9780822946380
Pub Date: 29 Nov 2022
Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pittsburgh Hist Urban Environment
Description:
Urban Infrastructures creates space for an encounter between historians, humanists, and social scientists who seek new methodological approaches to the history of urban infrastructure. It draws on recent work across history, anthropology, science and technology studies, geography, resilience/sustainability, and other disciplines to explore the social effects of infrastructure. The volume rejects narrow conceptions of infrastructure history as only the history of public works, and instead expands the definition to all business enterprises and public bodies that provide the goods and services essential for the day-to-day lives of most people.