Hydraulic standby: Anticipating water in Mexico City, my paper for the Standby: Organizing modes of in|activity special issue of ephemera was published today. abstract Even in cities where taps are installed in virtually all homes,…
IJURR has just published my book review of Sophie Watson's 2019 City Water Matters: Cultures, Practices and Entanglements of Urban Water. in Vol. 44 No. 6, pp. 1099-1100. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12970
Invitación al seminario con la participación de Anke Schwarz @ El Colegio de México, Centro de Estudios Demográficos, Urbanos y Ambientales La ponencia se basa en mi libro Demanding Water. A Sociospatial Approach to Domestic…
I just presented my paper 'The ordinary fabric of urban resilience' at the European Association for Urban History's 14th Conference 'Urban renewal and resilience. Cities in comparative perspective'. It formed part of the session 'Imagining…
A sudden drop in pressure, my review of Nikhil Anand's highly recommendable 2017 book Hydraulic City has just been published in City, Volume 22 No. 1, pages 178-182. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13604813.2018.1428272 Sorry about the paywall - you…
What are infrastructures to the urban? Lecture by Dr. Anke Schwarz at the Center for Metropolitan Studies (CMS). Part of Prof. Dorothee Brantz' lecture series Urban Societies in Time and Space. Tue January 23, 2018…
I am happy to announce the publication of my new book: Schwarz, A. (2017): Demanding Water. A Sociospatial Approach to Domestic Water Use in Mexico City. Megacities and Global Change, Vol. 22. Stuttgart: Steiner. Abstract…
My article on the Flint water crisis and why the infrastructure investment plan recently announced by the White House is unlikely to alleviate any of the infrastructural inequalities in the US has been published. Find it in the June 29, 2017 edition of the Jungle World weekly (in German): https://jungle.world/artikel/2017/26/gefaehrliches-wasser
In his article ¿El fin del agua en la Ciudad de México?, Alejandro de Coss traces the social roots of Mexico City's water scarcity. These range from a crisis of governance to the depletion of…
Smart energy grids are now being rolled out all over Europe. One of their core elements are so-called smart meters - digital devices which can be read out and controlled by the utility from a…