Translating the Networked City

Auteur
Prof. Jochen Monstadt, Chair of Governance of Urban Transitions, Human Geography & Spatial Planning, Utrecht University Dr. Rémi de Bercegol, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France Dr. Bérénice Bon, Graduate School of Urban Studies, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany

Résumé

This book contributes to postcolonial urban and technology studies by analysing the translation of urban planning ideals through the lens of urban infrastructure in East Africa. By drawing on recent work on the networked city, and by conceptualising the translation of this travelling urban and technological ideal, it explores how place-based processes of adaptation and creativity shape the provision of infrastructure services.

Contenu

I. Introduction 1. Urban change and socio-technical heterogeneity in East Africa: The case of Dar es Salaam and Nairobi 2. Translating networked urbanism: Engaging with postcolonial debates on cities and infrastructures II. Decolonising cities and infrastructures in sub-Saharan Africa 3. Colonial cities as laboratories of modernity? Circulation and appropriation of urban technologies in the British Empire 4. Urban policy mobility and infrastructure development: The translation of the 'Worldclass city' standards in African cities 5. Representation, negotiation, and tinkering: Stories of electrification from colonial Dar es Salaam III. Urban Planning and the Networked City 6. Urban growth, diverse mosaics and infrastructure services: Lessons from Dar es Salaam 7. Urbanisation patterns and service delivery in Nairobi IV. Innovators and co-providers 8. Living in the interstices of a networked city: Water supply modalities in Eastleigh, Nairobi 9. Toward the networked city? Innovating water and sanitation systems in Dar es Salaam 10. The making of a 'smart city'? Deploying digital technologies in Nairobi 11. The rise of Bus Rapid Transit systems: Innovations in the contexts of Nairobi and Dar es Salaam V. Infrastructural vulnerabilities 12. 'Excavating' the sanitation system in colonial Dar es Salaam 13. Everyday experiences and infrastructure vulnerabilities in peri-urban areas of Dar es Salaam 14. Planning urban sanitation infrastructure in East Africa: Looking beyond women's vulnerabilities VI. Politics of the networked city 15. Enclaves of light: The electrification of Dar es Salaam under German and British colonial rule, 19081950 16. Infrastructure, race and social-spatial differentiation: Unpacking Nairobi's water system, 1899 to 1939 17. Electricity networks and (counter) powers in the Kibera slum 18. Financing the networked city: Transportation and land development in Nairobi VII. Conclusions 19. Lost in translation? Governing urban and infrastructural heterogeneity