GGRC45H3 Lecture Notes - Structural Adjustment, Las Vegas Valley, Megacity
Document Summary
Not just the physical attributes but the social and organizational structures as well. Infrastructural networks: the process of getting the water to us. Infrastructure not just a set of things: not just the road you drive on, not just the cell phone tower, think about infrastructure as a process. Social things and process based things as well as material things. Infrastructure doesn"t just exist but the way we use it: ex, slums (plumbing used as a transportation) One person"s infrastructure is another person"s barrier: in the megacity, it can be dysfunctional for another person. A social process: only works if you have access to it and can use it. Las vegas most unemployment problem in the us. Hundreds of population losing their homes and end up residing underground. Underneath these casinos, there are networks of plumbing but for some people it is used as a home. They use the infrastructural network as a shelter.
