Dirk van Laak, Paul N. Edwards

Lifelines of Our Society

A Global History of Infrastructure

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"A global history of modern infrastructures covering two centuries of historical dynamics from all over the world"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 149mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9780262546386
• ISBN-10: 0262546388
• Artikelnr.: 67791639

Autorenporträt

Dirk van Laak is Professor of History from the 19th to the 21st Century at Leipzig University.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword vii
Paul N. Edwards
Preface to the English-Language Edition xi
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction: As Long As It Keeps Working...1
I The Classical Era of Infrastructure
1 Public Works: The Nineteenth Century 21
2 Lifelines of Community: The Early Twentieth Century 47
3 The Measure of Modernity: The Late Twentieth Century 79
II Nodes of Infrastructural Debate
4 Public, Private, or Partnership? How Infrastructure is Organized 113
5 Prestige Projects: Symbolic Value and Failure 129
6 Crumbling Bridges: The Life Cycles of Infrastructures 143
7 Achilles' Heels: The Vulnerability of Large-Scale Networks 157
8 The Cold Persona: Users and Operators of Infrastructures 173
Conclusion: Down the Drain? 189
Notes 207
Bibliography 259
Index 311