ABSTRACT
The bourgeois dream of a city as the maximum republic conjoining industrial production, consumption, culture and politics of citizenship has been always a displaced site of a reality of competing claims, class conflicts and contentious politics. The logistical expansion of the city gives rise to Third World mega-urbanisation, but it resurrects the rent factor from oblivion in a capitalist economy. Infrastructure makes the city a network of logistical practices. The logistics of waste collection, clearance, vending, reprocessing and disposal are issues pertaining to the circulation of commodity, transportation, and organising and institutionalising the sites of reprocessing and venues of sale of commodities. The logistics of waste has attained political significance, whether in the form of managing population segments or reprocessing the elements of waste back into the production process, such as reprocessing e-waste. Care centres supplying caregivers too have their logistical emplacement in the city.
