This agenda-setting volume disrupts conventional notions of time through a robust examination of the relations between temporality, infrastructure and urban society. With global coverage of diverse cities and regions from Berlin to Jayapura, this book re-evaluates the temporal complexities that shape our infrastructured worlds.

Whether waiting for the train or planning the future city, infrastructure orders—and depends on—multiple urban temporalities.This agenda-setting volume disrupts conventional notions of time through a robust examination of the relations between temporality, infrastructure and urban society. With global coverage of diverse cities and regions from Berlin to Jayapura, this book re-evaluates the temporal complexities that shape our infrastructured worlds.

1. Time for a Global Infrastructure Turn - Jean-Paul D. Addie, Michael R. Glass, Jen Nelles, Lauren Marino2. Rhythmic Infrastructure - Jean-Paul D. AddiePart 1: Infrastructural Pasts, Presents, and Futures3. Usable Infrastructure Pasts: Mobilizing History for Urban Technology Futures - Timothy Moss4. Shifting Regimes of Historicity and the Control of Urban Futures Through Infrastructures: Continuities, Ambivalences, and Tensions in the Anthropocene - Olivier Coutard5. Extensions as Infrastructure: The Temporalities Between Subjugation and Liberation in Jayapura, West Papua - AbdouMaliq SimonePart 2: Development Times and the Making of Urban Worlds6. Sequencing Like a State: Ciudad Guayana and the Infrastructures of Arrival - Peter Ekman7. The Times of Infrastructure Fundamentalism: Future Profits, Slow Operations, Long-term Impacts - Seth Schindler and J. Miguel Kanai8. Dissonant Times: The Land–Infrastructure–Finance Nexus in Post-Mubarak Egypt - Dalia Wahdan and Tamer ElshayalPart 3: Times of Disruption/Disrupting Times9. The Multiple Temporalities of Self-Healing Infrastructure: From the F-15 Fighter to the Smart Urban Microgrid - Simon Marvin and Jonathon Rutherford10. Speed, Suspension, and Stasis: Waiting in the Shadow of Infrastructure - Jessica DiCarlo11. Desynchronized Infrastructures of Care: Suburban Imaginaries Re-Examined - Samantha Biglieri and Roger Keil12. Disrupting Infrastructure: Space, Speed, and Street Governance - Amelia Thorpe13. Urban Infrastructure In and Out of Time - Jean-Paul D. Addie, Michael R. Glass, and Jen Nelles