…political regimes of the colonial state (Dossal 1991). These colonial histories of public infrastructure continue to matter in postcolonial cities like Mumbai, and trouble the expectations of universal, undifferentiated service…

…software, algorithms, and machine-sorted data in widespread use today. These networks and devices are built and maintained by massive, trans-national ICT corporations, not least Apple, Alphabet (Google’s parent company), AT&T,…

…would offer personal, on-demand, nonstop transportation between any two points on a network inside Abu Dhabi’s Masdar City, arguably combining the advantages of cars (private travel at any time) and…

The birds of Poyang Lake, do you know their number? Flying they obscure the sun and moon Alighting the lake-grasses are concealed.[1] The Poyang Lake in southern China is renowned…

…“We are all Flint.” With every disclosed email, alleged wrongdoing, and denial of responsibility, the course of Flint’s contamination grows as murky and foul as the water that began flowing…

…to build a freshwater lock canal instead of a sea-level design, regional water supply has been a recurring concern for both infrastructural and environmental reasons. First, the canal system is…

…to include experts from a wide range of areas, including infrastructure engineering, landscape design, urban design, architecture, industrial design, community engagement, and communications design, among many others. The brief also…

…through urban expansion, discussed above, meets two additional factors. First is competition among municipalities for politically important national designations such as “National Central City” or “National Regional City” (F. Wu…

…demonstrate respect for democratic decision making” (Alexander et al. 2014). Led by the South African office of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, this group of civil society actors also critiqued the…

…humanitarian mainstream, the design templates derived from Ashaiman provide an opportunity to see “the real” as more radical than purely imagined alternatives. The abstractions, amplifications, and erasures entailed by modeling…

…total electricity generation (AEPC 2016). Considered against a backdrop of protracted political volatility and recursive patterns of developmental promise and failure, the proliferation of micro-hydropower in Nepal emerges as a…

…exclusionary, as in the conventional account of economic zones—rests upon a particular reading of developmental states. In Myanmar, it is not obvious that the developmental state can provide that point…

…be if a determined effort was made to deliberately disrupt electrical grids by internal or external adversaries? The pressure was therefore increased to develop “self-healing grids” (Amin 2004) based on…

…normal)”. The toilet has become the quintessential technical development problem in search of a fix (Li 2007), with toilet projects spanning the field of design, engineering, and digital technology. The…

…analyst Walmer E. Strope of the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory, described how one might use information about the vulnerability of industrial systems to plan for national survival in the wake…

…in ultra-secure areas. They were not personally threatened. But their status as the global elite gave them a special quality of life comprised of excellent restaurants, high-end clothing stores, elegant…

…beginning of the sixteenth century, the environmental, botanical, and agricultural landscapes of the continents become each irrevocably altered by knowledge of the other. Alfred Crosby’s description of this “Columbian Exchange”…

…describes in this issue. Not all corporate software developers are powerful technological agents. Many also work with constraints and even through states of ignorance (because developers often don’t know what’s…

…of Mexican electricity come from non–fossil fuel sources by 2024. The advent of renewables and carbon mitigation targets, however, have also raised questions about how renewable energy development may disenfranchise…

…was always incomplete, and whatever was left out could bias the model. Samuel always explained this to visiting school groups by inviting them to imagine training a model to predict…

At the beginning of 2017 information security researcher, Amnesty International technologist, and hacker Claudio (“nex”) Guarnieri launched “Security without Borders,” an organization devoted to helping civil society deal with technical…

…of infrastructural connections, the spatiality of infrastructural flows, and the definition of technical standards? Of course the point cannot be simply that material, spatial, and technical elements shape publics in…

…devices that aim to model vector dynamics through a workable format and material versatility. Another classic example is the experimental hut—artificial homes where entomologists can model the vicissitudes of mosquito…

…far more encompassing definition that suggested the distinctiveness of information warfare and, in many cases, the radical disruption of traditional kinetic warfare. The first known official Department of Defense definition…

…fundamental question about the future of an organizational form. Is the digital revolution also the death throes of the traditional bureaucracy, presaging a future of declining governmental effectiveness punctuated by…