Shaping Urban Infrastructures – Intermediaries and the Governance of Socio-Technical Networks

Cities can only exist because of the highly developed systems which underlie them, ensuring that energy, clean water and so on are moved efficiently from producer to user, and that waste is removed. The urgent need to make the way that these services are provided more environmentally, socially and economically sustainable means that these systems are in a state of transition. Shaping Urban Infrastructures presents research and analysis of the intermediaries that underpin the transitions that are taking place within urban infrastructures, showing how intermediaries emerge, the role that they play in key sectors – including energy, water, waste and building – and what impact they have on the governance of urban socio-technical networks.