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%T The Indifference of Transport: Comparative Research of "Infrastructural Ruins" in the Gauteng City-Region and Greater Maputo %A Rubin, Margot %A Blair Howe, Lindsay %A Charlton, Sarah %A Suleman, Muhammed %A Cani, Anselmo %A Tshuwa, Lesego %A Parker, Alexandra %J Urban Planning %N 4 %P 351-365 %V 8 %D 2023 %K Gauteng; Maputo; infrastructural ruins; transport infrastructure %@ 2183-7635 %U https://www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplanning/article/view/7264/3569 %X 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. %C PRT %G en %9 Zeitschriftenartikel %W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org %~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info