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Urban infrastructure as materialized consensus

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ID3919604
AuthorsMonica L Smith (0000-0003-0612-6643, University of California, Los Angeles, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume48
Issue1
Pages164-178
Publication date2016-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueWorld Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0043-8243 • E-ISSN: 1470-1375
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00438243.2015.1124804
OpenAlexW2292425395
LanguageEN
Citations received29
References cited53

Infrastructure that shapes and facilitates daily life, such as pathways, conduits and boundary walls, constitutes one of the most dynamic forms of architecture in both ancient and modern cities. Although infrastructure is conceived and designed with particular goals and capacities, its temporal and spatial scale means that it is a constant work in progress that engages numerous agents: civic authorities design and implement infrastructure; designated agencies maintain and repair infrastructure; and ordinary people utilize, modify, ignore or destroy it. Infrastructure can be thus analyzed as a materialization of ongoing communication, in which there are often conflicts among different constituents to achieve consensus. The linguistic concepts of expert language and turn-taking are utilized to assess three brief case studies: historical New Orleans; a multipurpose micro-park in Vienna, Austria; and the archaeological city of Sisupalgarh, India

Archaeology · Architectural engineering · Boundary (topology · Cartography · Civil engineering · Computer security · Critical infrastructure · Data science · Geography · Scale (ratio · Transport engineering · Transport infrastructure · Urban infrastructure · Urban planning · Work (physics · Architecture · Computer Science · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Engineering · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Water Governance and Infrastructure

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Citations per year2,9
Citation span2016 - 2026 (11)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 27
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