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"This book provides an overview and assessment of infrastructure's legal and governance underpinnings. Infrastructure is often thought of as a term referring only to the physical entities - pipes, cables, utility poles, highways, airports - that facilitate the transmission of water, gas, telecommunications and electricity, as well as enabling both private and public transportation, and serving to house more or less public services such as health care and schools. However, infrastructure planning and implementation are not reducible to bricks and mortar. The complex process requires drawing from and sometimes re-inventing or recycling legal tools, from construction contracts to financing 'deals', which are often taken for granted by both practitioners and urban studies scholars. These are as important today as they were when the first railway lines were built, and to a large extent they remain just as invisible: the avalanche of drawings and photographs of planned or in-process fancy buildings tends to hide from view the behind the scenes negotiations and decision-making that had to happen before construction could start, and which in some cases continue afterwards. This book does n

Who reads Infrastructure : New Trajectories in Law?

Author

Mariana Valverde

Publisher

Routledge/Glasshouse

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781000610413

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Law, Political Science, Science