Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Jonathan Silver
• Alan Wiig
• Kevin Ward
• Mike Hodson
• Hamil Pearsall
• Theresa Enright

Titel

Global Infrastructure and Urban Futures: London’s Transforming Royal Albert Dock

Ist Teil von

• Infrastructuring Urban Futures, 2023, p.164

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Bristol University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The Royal Albert Dock in London was transformed – not without controversy – from an abandoned industrial waterfront into a node for Chinese multinational business, creating a hub of ‘Silk Road urbanism’ in the UK’s capital (ABP, 2017). The Royal Docks, inclusive of the Royal Albert Dock, have been a global infrastructure space since the 19th century, first as the maritime ‘heart of empire’ in imperial London, as a point for the ‘import and export of people’ and goods (Driver and Gilbert, 1998: 21). This repurposing of a globalized space is an exemplar of the epochal shifts in infrastructure that drive the