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Monstadt, Jochen. "The urban political ecology of networked infrastructures: What can we learn from technology studies and urban studies?" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Sheraton Boston and the Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA, Jul 31, 2008 <Not Available>. 2009-05-23 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p242915_index.html>

Monstadt, J. , 2008-07-31 "The urban political ecology of networked infrastructures: What can we learn from technology studies and urban studies?" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Sheraton Boston and the Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA Online <PDF>. 2009-05-23 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p242915_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: Networked urban infrastructures like energy, water, wastewater, and transport systems are "material mediators between nature and the city" (Kaika and Swyngedouw 2000). They can be regarded as both, a vital root cause of many environmental problems, while also offering important keys for reducing the ecological footprint of cities. These socio-technical systems are co-evolving in a dialectic relationship with cities: On the one hand the development of the modern city was made possible only by urban infrastructures that guide and facilitate urban functioning and urban life in a multitude of ways. On the other hand the urban environment was a precondition for the development of these "urban ma-chines" and still today cities are the loci and foci of socio-technological and socio-environmental innovations that sustain the development of networks. The co-evolution between cities and technical infrastructures and the ways in which we develop, govern and renew our infrastructures in cities are thus key matters of urban political ecology and societal relationships with nature. The objective of this paper is to scrutinize, how different literatures in both, urban studies and technology studies reflect this interrelationship and the urban conditions of sustain-ability transitions (historical studies of technology, social studies of technology, urban political ecology, studies of urban utility restructuring). It is hypothesized that none of the concepts discussed in these literatures is entirely appropriate for understanding the am-bivalent socio-ecological role of urban infrastructures, for explaining the complex interre-lation between cities, urban technologies and natural environments and for conceptualiz-ing how socio-technical innovations can be achieved in cities. However, integrating the most valuable elements of these literatures could considerably advance the study of urban infrastructures and of their transition to sustainability.

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