How infrastructure became a structured investment vehicle

This chapter argues, however, that failure also comes from deficiencies in our conceptual understandings of the nature of infrastructure, such that fresh approaches to what infrastructure is and what it might become could well open up better solutions to infrastructure crisis. Specifically, I want to put a geographic argument that begs for the inclusion of spatialised processes into a post-structuralist urban political economy of infrastructure. Otherwise, I think we will lose the argument that says urban infrastructure provision is crucial to the existence of just, sustainable cities (Graham and Marvin, 2001; Bakker, 2005), to an argument in favour of selective, ongoing privatisation and financialisation of the infrastructure sector where narrow commercial outcomes are unfairly privileged.