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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.
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%G en
%9 Zeitschriftenartikel
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