Infrastructure

New Trajectories in Law
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-032-18526-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 130 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 307 g

Reihe: New Trajectories in Law

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 not ignore the material and nonhuman aspects of infrastructure. But, focusing on the legal and governance underpinnings of infrastructure projects, via a series of key terms that refer to hybrid legal processes, the book offers an important socio-legal supplement to the current ‘infrastructure turn’.

This book will be of interest to students in the areas of socio-legal studies, urban sociology, urban studies, urban geography, planning, public law, and contract law, as well as practitioners involved in infrastructure projects.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Valverde, Mariana

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Kommunal- und Baurecht Raumordnung, Städtebau, Wohnungsbaurecht
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Vergaberecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Kommunal-, Regional-, und Landespolitik
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Verwaltungsrecht Verwaltungspraxis Kommunal- und Regionalverwaltung
• Rechtswissenschaften Bürgerliches Recht Privates Baurecht, Architektenrecht
• Technische Wissenschaften Bauingenieurwesen Baurecht, Recht für Ingenieure und Architekten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Audit, 2. Bonds, 3. Community consultations, 4. Credit ratings, 5. ‘The deal’, 6. High-speed rail, 7. Public-private partnerships, 8. Smart cities, 9. "Value for money" assessments, 10. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Mariana Valverde is Professor Emeritus at the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada.