Urban infrastructure management, concerned not only about how the infrastructures system evolve, but also about the way they interact.
Urban infrastructures configure “geographies of enablement and constraint”, which are “never truly universal or politically or socially ‘neutral”. This means that urban infrastructure management can and should also contribute to a more equal and fair society or, in contradistinction, avoid creating marginalized areas with poor access to basic services. This latter point, added to the previous ones, clearly shows why a multidisciplinary approach transcending the common “engineering” perspective is needed for managing urban infrastructures.
Sociotechnical systems refers to sets of elements interacting and interdependent forming a whole, which include both social (that is, institutions, customs, and habits) and technical components (such as traffic lights and centralized wastewater treatment) and implies the “recognition of a recursive (not simultaneous) shaping of abstract social constructs and a technical infrastructure that includes technology materiality and people’s localized responses to it”.
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