Disjunct realities
Understanding Planning and Governance Through Imaginaries of Mega-Infrastructure Projects
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6417219 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Neha Sami (0000-0002-3300-2542, Indian Institute for Human Settlements, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 433-438 |
| Publication date | 2025-05-26 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1752-1386 • E-ISSN: 1752-1378 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/cjres/rsaf010 |
| OpenAlex | W4410732418 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 23 |
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
Business · Conflation · Corporate governance · Disjunct · Economic geography · Economics · Economy · Environmental planning · Epistemology · Geography · Infrastructure planning · Management · Mega · Megacity · Political science · Sociology · Urban and Rural Development Challenges · Urban Planning and Governance · Water Governance and Infrastructure
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The allure of ‘smart city’ rhetoric
Smart city returns
Theorising in urban and regional studies
The real lives of urban fantasies
Urban imaginaries
Introduction
Cities and the Multilevel Governance of Global Climate Change
African urban fantasies
New urban utopias of postcolonial India
Why India Cannot Plan Its Cities
Climate Change, Environmental Governance and the Scale Problem
The Comparative City
The New Mega-Projects
Mega-urban politics
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |