Thursday, January 28, 2010

The Spatial Political Economy of Urban Infrastructure Transformation by Roar Samuelsen

I found this paper while searching for something completely unrelated. It is on the political economy of infrastructure in a more urban setting.


The second aspect of urban infrastructure to be pointed out is that they are fixed supports for the time-space mobilities of capitalism. This means that they are the fixed part of capital, immobilized and spatially configured in order to facilitate greater movement of capital, commodities, information, labour, money and services.


Full Article Here

The paper as a whole is a little technical and deals with more urban areas, but I thought it was relevant to the discussion of what infrastructure is and its role in a capitalistic society.

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