ABSTRACT
The conclusion explores in detail the intersection of infrastructures and post-socialism, seeking to inform the ‘thinking’ and ‘doing’ of (urban) transition and transformation. We thus show the potential for post-socialist cities to contribute to infrastructural theory by revisiting two of its key arguments: the equation of urban infrastructure’s material obduracy and invisibility, and its normativity. Infrastructural thinking reveals, in turn, that the concept of post-socialism is much more than simple statements about (urban) hybridities, but calls for a consequent relational understanding. It points to multi-scalar processes of interdependent social, material and spatial change of varying paces and intensities that draw on and contribute to experiences of socialism and capitalism – processes of urban transition that thus open a particular window of opportunity for practical learning.
