Jean-Paul D. Addie & Michael R. Glass 
Infrastructural Times 
Temporality and the Making of Global Urban Worlds

Whether waiting for the train or planning the future city, infrastructure orders—and depends on—multiple urban temporalities.
This agenda-setting volume disrupts conventional notions of time through a robust examination of the relations between temporality, infrastructure, and urban society. Conceptually rich and empirically detailed, its interdisciplinary dialogue encompasses infrastructural systems including transportation, energy, and water to bridge often-siloed technical, political-economic and lived perspectives.
With global coverage of diverse cities and regions from Berlin to Jayapura, this book is an essential provocation to re-evaluate urban theory, politics, and practice and better account for the temporal complexities that shape our infrastructured worlds.

Table of Content

1. Time for a Global Infrastructure Turn – Jean-Paul D. Addie, Michael R. Glass, Jen Nelles, Lauren Marino
2. Rhythmic Infrastructure – Jean-Paul D. Addie
Part 1: Infrastructural Pasts, Presents, and Futures
3. Usable Infrastructure Pasts: Mobilizing History for Urban Technology Futures – Timothy Moss
4. Shifting Regimes of Historicity and the Control of Urban Futures Through Infrastructures: Continuities, Ambivalences, and Tensions in the Anthropocene – Olivier Coutard
5. Extensions as Infrastructure: The Temporalities Between Subjugation and Liberation in Jayapura, West Papua – Abdou Maliq Simone
Part 2: Development Times and the Making of Urban Worlds
6. Sequencing Like a State: Ciudad Guayana and the Infrastructures of Arrival – Peter Ekman
7. The Times of Infrastructure Fundamentalism: Future Profits, Slow Operations, Long-term Impacts – Seth Schindler and J. Miguel Kanai
8. Dissonant Times: The Land–Infrastructure–Finance Nexus in Post-Mubarak Egypt – Dalia Wahdan and Tamer Elshayal
Part 3: Times of Disruption/Disrupting Times
9. The Multiple Temporalities of Self-Healing Infrastructure: From the F-15 Fighter to the Smart Urban Microgrid – Simon Marvin and Jonathon Rutherford
10. Speed, Suspension, and Stasis: Waiting in the Shadow of Infrastructure – Jessica Di Carlo
11. Desynchronized Infrastructures of Care: Suburban Imaginaries Re-Examined – Samantha Biglieri and Roger Keil
12. Disrupting Infrastructure: Space, Speed, and Street Governance – Amelia Thorpe
13. Urban Infrastructure In and Out of Time – Jean-Paul D. Addie, Michael R. Glass, and Jen Nelles

About the author

Roger Keil is Professor and York Research Chair in Global Sub/Urban Studies at York University, Canada.