Contents:
Foreword
1. Introducing Inverse Infrastructures
Tineke M. Egyedi, Donna C. Mehos and Wim G. Vree
PART I: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
2. Inverse Infrastructures and their Emergence at the Edge of Order
and Chaos: An Analytic Framework
Jan van den Berg
3. Mapping Institutional, Technological and Policy Configurations
of Inverse Infrastructures
Rolf Künneke
PART II: EXPLORING INVERSE FEATURES
4. Centralization and Decentralization: A History of Local Radio
and Television Distribution
Thea Weijers
5. Citizen-Driven Collection of Waste Paper (1945–2010): A
Government-Sustained Inverse Infrastructure
Frida de Jong and Karel Mulder
6. Self-Organization in Wikis
Igor Nikolic and Chris Davis
7. The Role of Policy in Inverse Developments: Comparing Dutch and
Danish Wind Energy
Linda M. Kamp
8. Who Cares? The Maintenance of a Wi-Fi Community
Infrastructure
Stefan Verhaegh and Ellen van Oost
9. Decentral Water Supply and Sanitation
Aad Correljé and Thorsten Schuetze
PART III: EXPLORING IMPLICATIONS
10. Inverse Telecommunications: The Future for Rural Areas in
Developing Countries?
Rudi Westerveld
11. Building a Syngas Infrastructure: Translating Inverse
Properties into Design Recommendations
Paulien M. Herder and Rob M. Stikkelman
12. Policy Implications of Top-down and Bottom-up Patterns in
E-Government Infrastructure Development
Anne Fleur van Veenstra and Marijn Janssen
PART IV: CONCLUSION
13. Disruptive Inverse Infrastructures: Conclusions and Policy
Recommendations
Tineke M. Egyedi
APPENDICES
Appendix I: The Internet and Rijkswaterstaat: An ICT Infrastructure
for Roads and Waterways
Wim G. Vree
Appendix II: Inverse Infrastructures: Coordination in
Self-Organizing Systems
Tineke M. Egyedi, Jos Vrancken and Jolien Ubacht
Index
Edited by Tineke M. Egyedi, Delft Institute for Research on Standardization and Donna C. Mehos, Senior Researcher, Energy and Industry, Department of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
’The traditional analysis of infrastructure networks has provided
the conceptual rationalization for centralized monopolies for a
century. In recent years, liberalization has shown that much wider
participation can be beneficial. Innovative development in
decentralized networks can be driven from below if government
policies permit it, as vividly demonstrated by the Internet. This
book contributes to a much needed exploration into the
characteristics and implications of decentralized networks being
driven from below, introducing new perspectives on the conception
and analysis of infrastructure networks.’
*William H. Melody, Aalborg University, Denmark and Delft
University of Technology, The Netherlands*
’This volume makes several valuable contributions to the topic,
particularly in expanding the understanding of how to best
cultivate the formation and success of inverse infrastructures over
time.’
*- James Alleman and Andrew Richard Schrock, Digiworld Economic
Journal*
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