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Countries undergoing rapid urban transformations experience shifts in various infrastructural systems. 

However, there are explicit tensions between the apparent need to develop national infrastructures and the possible implications that this may carry for human health, social relations and environmental sustainability. For instance, unequal access to urban infrastructure – from sanitation to communication – can lead to stratified health outcomes. Differing everyday practices associated with competing coexisting infrastructures can result in exclusion and isolation of already marginalised groups. Resource-intensive and polluting modern infrastructures can trigger the degradation and loss of ecosystems and their services. 

This conference invites contributions concerned with: 

• the design, planning, implementation, maintenance and use of urban infrastructures (including, but not limited to, sanitation, transportation, health care and education); 
• the social meanings underpinning infrastructural systems and their processes; 
• the wider environmental effects of urban infrastructures; and 
• the human well-being outcomes of urban infrastructural transitions (public health in particular).

Timeline

Deadline for abstract submission: 30 September 2018
Early bird & speaker registration: 15 November 2018 – 15 January 2019
Conference: 1-3 May 2019

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