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@article{ Rubin2023, title = {The Indifference of Transport: Comparative Research of "Infrastructural Ruins" in the Gauteng City-Region and Greater Maputo}, author = {Rubin, Margot and Blair Howe, Lindsay and Charlton, Sarah and Suleman, Muhammed and Cani, Anselmo and Tshuwa, Lesego and Parker, Alexandra}, journal = {Urban Planning}, number = {4}, pages = {351-365}, volume = {8}, year = {2023}, issn = {2183-7635}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.17645/up.v8i4.7264}, 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 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.}, keywords = {Mosambik; Mozambique; Republik Südafrika; Republic of South Africa; Infrastruktur; infrastructure; Verkehr; traffic; Stadtplanung; urban planning}}