Disjunct realities: understanding planning and governance through imaginaries of mega-infrastructure projects
本文探讨大型基础设施项目中的权力与政治,分析谁的愿景和想象主导了这些项目,并以印度工业基础设施案例揭示跨尺度治理过程。
Abstract Infrastructure networks are emerging as critical technological and physical assets of modern urban regions. These networks are complex, multi-layered, and have power and politics embedded within them, with impact being felt across different scales. Building on the idea that planning offers different visions, fantasies or imaginations of the future, I look specifically for agency and where it lies in the context of large infrastructure projects. Whose visions, imaginations and fantasies do these mega-projects represent? Drawing on work done on industrial infrastructure programmes in the Indian context, this commentary focuses specifically on locating agency within this process of building infrastructure and draws on a series of cases of infrastructure development in the Indian context through which intra-scalar governance processes can begin to be analysed and understood.