ABSTRACT
Monstadt, 2009; Schreurs, 2008; While et al., 2010). For the most part, work in
this field has been concerned with assessing the development and implementation
of urban climate policy. Central to these analyses has been the investigation of the pol-
icies and measures that are being developed in key urban infrastructure networks:
energy, transport, the built environment, and increasingly water and sanitation.
However, infrastructure networks, their material fabric, as well as the everyday prac-
tices and political economies that sustain and are structured by them have remained
outside the scope of analysis. This is a critical omission since these networks
