1st Edition

The Routledge Handbook of Infrastructure Design Global Perspectives from Architectural History

Edited By Joseph Heathcott Copyright 2022
348 Pages 116 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

348 Pages 116 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

348 Pages 116 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Routledge Handbook of Infrastructure Design explores the multifaceted nature of infrastructure through the global lens of architectural history. Infrastructure holds the world together. Yet even as it connects some people, it divides others, sorting access and connectivity through varied social categories such as class, race, gender, and citizenship. This collection examines themes across... Read more

Infrastructure Designs: Dreaming and Building Worlds

Joseph Heathcott

Part 1 Materialities

1 Kingship and the Rocks: Infrastructure and the Materiality of Empire

Braden Lee Scott

2 In Between Technology and Architecture: Claude-Nicolas Ledoux and the French Royal Saline

Carmelina Martinez

3 Cement as Weapon: Meta-Infrastructure in the "World’s Last Cement Frontier"

Robby Fivez and Monika Motylińska

4 Notes from the Underworld: Excavation as Architectural Counter-History

Stefano Corbo

Part 2 Embodiments

5 Virtual Gardens: Gendered Space in the History of Afghanistan’s Telecommunications

Hannah Ahlblad

6 Mobilizing Labor for Infrastructure in Northeast Brazil, 1915–1932

Laura Belik

7 Everyday Living in Cairo’s City of the Dead

Reem Saad Sardina, Sherif Elfiki, and Ahmed El Antably

Part 3 Natures

8 Dams, Lakes, and Water Sports: Building a Hybrid Landscape in Belgium’s Eau d’Heure Valley, 1933–1987

Marie Pirard

9 Pedagogic Landscapes: Recreation, Play, and Danish Infrastructure Design

Margaret Birney Vickery

10 A Vast Demographic Void: Infrastructure, Ecology, and the Amazon

Catherine Seavitt Nordenson

Part 4 Flows

11 Visualizing the Valens Aqueduct in Early Modern Istanbul

Fatma Sarıkaya Işık and Pelin Yoncacı Arslan

12 The Airport Terminal: Circulation and Soft Power

Menno Hubregtse

13 The Porous Infrastructures of Somali Malls in Cape Town

Huda Tayob

Part 5 City Making

14 Bridging the Bosporus: Mobility, Geopolitics, and Urban Imaginary in Istanbul, 1933–1973

Sibel Bozdoğan

15 Brasilia, a Story Seen from the Roadside: Narratives of Landscape Transformation and the Technological Sublime

Sued Ferreira da Silva

16 More than a "Circulation Machine": Recasting the Geographies of Infrastructure in Modernist Urbanism

Mejrema Zatrić

17 Infrastructure as a Political Tool of Regime Legitimization in Doha, Qatar

Peter Chomowicz

Part 6 The Long Road

18 The Global Spread of Street Pavement Materials and Technology, 1820–1920

Robin B. Williams

19 Parallel Lines: Urban Expressways in the United States

Romina Canna

20 Good Neighbors and Automovilistas: Imaginaries of Hemispheric Travel along the Pan-American Highway, 1936–1942

Dicle Taskin

Part 7 Power Fields

21 Nuclear Power Stations in Post-War Britain: Picturesque Landscapes for the Masses

Laura Coucill and Luca Csepely-Knorr

22 TVA in the Desert: U.S. Development Projects in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, 1951–1961

Dalal Musaed Alsayer

23 Shaped from Above: Cartographic Domination and U.S. Military Infrastructure in 1950s Spain

José Vela Castillo

Part 8 Liquid Worlds

24 Water and Infrastructure in Late Colonial Guanajuato

Luis Gordo Peláez

25 Land Reclamation in the Making of Hong Kong

Charlie Qiuli Xue and Cong Sun

26 Bombay/Mumbai Waterfronts in the Hindi Film Deewaar [The Wall] (1975)

Vandana Baweja

Biography

Joseph Heathcott is Chair of Urban and Environmental Studies at The New School in New York. He has held visiting positions at Princeton University School of Architecture, the London School of Economics, the University of Vienna, and Sciences Po, Paris. His most recent book is Capturing the City: Photographs from the Streets of St. Louis (2016).