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The Indifference of Transport: Comparative Research of "Infrastructural Ruins" in the Gauteng City-Region and Greater Maputo
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Abstract States in the Global South have consistently invested in large-scale, vanity infrastructure projects, which are often not used by the majority of their residents. Using a mixed-method and comparative approach with findings from Greater Maputo, Mozambique, and the Gauteng City-Region exposes how inte... mehr
States in the Global South have consistently invested in large-scale, vanity infrastructure projects, which are often not used by the majority of their residents. Using a mixed-method and comparative approach with findings from Greater Maputo, Mozambique, and the Gauteng City-Region exposes how internationally-supported and expensive transport projects do not meet the needs of lower-income urban residents, and meanwhile, widespread, everyday modes of commuting such as trains, paratransit, and pathways for walking deteriorate. State-led development thus often generates an infrastructural landscape characterised by "ruin" and "indifference." These choices are anachronistic, steeped in a desire for a modernist-inspired future and in establishing narratives of control. In the cases of Gauteng and Maputo, whether or not the infrastructure is "successfully" implemented, these choices have resulted in a distancing of the state from the majority of urban residents.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Mosambik; Republik Südafrika; Infrastruktur; Verkehr; Stadtplanung
Klassifikation
Raumplanung und Regionalforschung
Freie Schlagwörter
Gauteng; Maputo; infrastructural ruins; transport infrastructure
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2023
Seitenangabe
S. 351-365
Zeitschriftentitel
Urban Planning, 8 (2023) 4
Heftthema
Between the "Structural" and the "Everyday": Bridging Macro and Micro Perspectives in Comparative Urban Research
ISSN
2183-7635
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)