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Cyborg urbanization beyond the human: the construction and ruination of the Matinha gasworks site
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Work on cyborg urbanization has unveiled the way in which the city is
produced through hybridizations of the human and non-human.
However, less attention has been given to the ways by which nonhuman actors entangle each other without human mediation. On the
other hand, literature on urban ruination has explored the agency of
the non-human in landscape transformation, however few works have
established the link between the processes of ruination and urban
transformation. In this article, we bridge these two literatures and
argue that it is possible to extend the concept of cyborg urbanization
to include urban transformation processes that are conducted by nonhuman actors, namely vegetation.
We explore these missing links through an exploration of the
Matinha Gasworks site, located in the Eastern Zone of the city of
Lisbon, Portugal, and deactivated in 2001. It is a vacant land, with
several ruined derelict constructions of a gasworks. We draw upon
archival work, remote sensing techniques, and post-phenomenological fieldwork to explore the 80-year long process of construction and
ruination of the Matinha Gasworks site. Our findings highlight the
accumulation of distinct temporalities, scales, matters, and subjectivities in the production of the urban.
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Cyborg Ruination Non-human actors Postindustrial Urban nature
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Brito-Henriques, Eduardo, Paiva, Daniel, & Costa, Pablo (2019). Cyborg urbanization beyond the human: the construction and ruination of the Matinha gasworks site. Urban Geography, 40(10), 1596-1615. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2019.1634405
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Taylor & Francis