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Post-socialist urban infrastructures: learning from systems of less

In: Handbook of Infrastructures and Cities

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  • Tauri Tuvikene
  • Wladimir Sgibnev
  • Carola S. Neugebauer

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This chapter highlights the importance of attending to (post-)socialist experiences in infrastructural research and practice for understanding and shaping infrastructure-related transitions. Historical infrastructural experiences, materialities and practices, the chapter argues, inform contemporary struggles for sustainable and resilient infrastructures and possible pathways towards sustainability. The authors illustrate their argument with the case of (post-)socialist Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), which has witnessed a historically unique transition from state-sponsored large technological systems to fragmented and ailing neoliberal provision - a process unrivalled anywhere in the world in terms of its scale and speed. The chapter discusses the ways in which the analysis of past or ongoing infrastructural transformations in the CEE can shed light on processes of future transitions to sustainability and resilience beyond that particular regional context.

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  • Tauri Tuvikene & Wladimir Sgibnev & Carola S. Neugebauer, 2024. "Post-socialist urban infrastructures: learning from systems of less," Chapters, in: Olivier Coutard & Daniel Florentin (ed.), Handbook of Infrastructures and Cities, chapter 26, pages 390-403, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:20849_26
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