Infrastructure and Inequality
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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Introduction
In 1980, Langdon Winter published his famous essay Do Artifacts Have Politics? The article is best known for a story that Winter tells about the influential urban planner Robert Moses. In it, Winter recounts how Moses purposefully made bridges so low that they did not allow buses to drive on them. Daniel Armanios: How do we put empirical flesh on this hunch that infrastructure can be racist and classist?
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