Shaping Urban Infrastructures: Intermediaries and the Governance of Socio-technical Networks

摘要

Shaping Urban Infrastructures, edited by Simon Guy, Simon Marvin, Will Medd and Timothy Moss, is an important and timely contribution to debates about infrastructure policy, management and governance. Infrastructure spending has been used as an economic stimulus measure in the US and is gaining attention in the UK. Without a clear understanding of the detailed dynamics of these socio-technical networks, such policies risk re-inscribing 20th century models of infrastructure that are inappropriate for the complex social, environmental and economic landscapes of the 21 st century.