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Waste is information : infrastructure legibility and governance / Dietmar Offenhuber ; foreword by Carlo Ratti.

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The relationship between infrastructure governance and the ways we read and represent waste systems, examined through three waste tracking and participatory sensing projects.

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Online Access: Full Text (via MIT Press)
Main Author: Offenhuber, Dietmar (Author)
Other Authors: Ratti, Carlo (writer of foreword.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, [2017]
Series:Infrastructures series.
Subjects:
Refuse and refuse disposal > Planning.
Refuse and refuse disposal > Citizen participation.
Municipal services > Planning > Case studies.
Refuse and refuse disposal > Philosophy.
City planning.
Municipal services > Planning.
Case studies.
Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Preface: The Paper Police
  • Introduction: Waste Is Information
  • The Information Problem of Waste Systems
  • The Agenda of This Book
  • What Is Information?
  • An Iceberg Theory of Waste Systems
  • The Shared Language of Location-Based Technology
  • Infrastructure Legibility
  • The Design of Infrastructural Systems
  • Design and Legibility
  • How This Book Is Organized
  • I Legibility
  • Prologue to Part I: Tracing Waste Geographies
  • 1 Visibility
  • Toxic Wastes and Race
  • Experiencing Infrastructure
  • Infrastructure Awareness, Accountability, and GovernanceAlternative Practices of Reading the Waste System
  • Conceptualizing Infrastructure Legibility
  • Elements of Infrastructure Legibility
  • Conclusion
  • 2 Reading Structure in Waste
  • Seattleâ#x80;#x99;s Waste System
  • The Trash Track Experiment
  • Initial Analysis: Traces in S, M, L, XL
  • Contextualizing Growing Waste Distances
  • Discussion of the Trash Track Results
  • Conclusion: Reading Systems from the Outside
  • Epilogue to Part I: Waste Forensics
  • Tracking as a Social Accountability Tool
  • Tracking in Law EnforcementTracking for Voluntary Monitoring Programs
  • Tracking as an Evaluation and Education Tool for Municipal Services
  • II Informality
  • Prologue to Part II: Making Informal Waste Systems Legible
  • Legibility through Formalization and Vice Versa
  • The Forage Tracker Experiment
  • 3 Local Legibility
  • Informal Waste Management
  • Why Did Industrial Waste Management Fail in Developing Countries?
  • How Does the Informal Value Chain Work?
  • Theories of Formalization
  • Formalization and Language: Legality and Monitoring
  • Extended Producer Responsibility and Informal RecyclingLocal Legibility: Context-Oriented Data Initiatives and Projects
  • How Can Formalization Support Recycling Cooperatives?
  • 4 Tacit Arrangements: Reading Presence and Practices
  • Steps toward Formalizing Waste Picking in Brazil
  • The Forage Tracker Experiment
  • Data Management Challenges for Cooperatives
  • Forage Trackerâ#x80;#x99;s Failures and Lessons
  • Addendum: Structures of Brazilian Cooperatives
  • Recycling Cooperatives in Greater São Paulo
  • Cooperatives in Pernambuco
  • III Participation
  • Prologue to Part III: Crowdsourcing Infrastructure5 Who Is Infrastructure? Participation in Urban Services
  • User-Driven Infrastructure Paradigms
  • A Brief History of 311 Systems in the United States
  • The Evolution of Accountability and New Public Management
  • 6 The Urban Problem at the Interface: Reading Governance
  • CitizensConnect
  • SeeClickFix
  • What Exactly Is an Urban Problem?
  • The â#x80;#x9C;Otherâ#x80;#x9D; Issuesâ#x80;#x94;Implicit Themes in the General Category
  • Design Paradigms of Feedback Systems
  • Conclusion: The Designer as Regulator

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