Infrastructure can be seen as rendering political decisions technical and depoliticized by turning them into physical systems (the hardware of our urban spaces). But we can - and increasingly do - reverse this process and problematize (re-politicize) the hardware by pointing out that it represents the physical embodiment of political decisions; that the seemingly technical is always a manifestation of the social forces that shaped it. Jane Jacobs continues to confront Robert Moses, through the ages ...
Infrastructure can be seen as rendering political decisions technical and depoliticized by turning them into physical systems (the hardware of our urban spaces). But we can - and increasingly do - reverse this process and problematize (re-politicize) the hardware by pointing out that it represents the physical embodiment of political decisions; that the seemingly technical is always a manifestation of the social forces that shaped it. Jane Jacobs continues to confront Robert Moses, through the ages ...