Engineering Cities: Mediating Materialities, Infrastructural Imaginaries and Shifting Regimes of Urban Expertise

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 244-262

  Björkman, Lisa ^a   Harris, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

engineering; expertise; imagination; infrastructure; knowledge; material politics

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; ENGINEERING; INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT; KNOWLEDGE; NEGOTIATION PROCESS; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN POLITICS;

ENGLAND; FRANCE; ILE DE FRANCE; INDIA; LONDON [ENGLAND]; MAHARASHTRA; MUMBAI; PARIS; SINGAPORE [SINGAPORE (NTN)]; SINGAPORE [SOUTHEAST ASIA]; UNITED KINGDOM; VILLE DE PARIS;

EID: 85043690004     PISSN: 03091317     EISSN: 14682427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.12528     Document Type: Conference Paper

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