Hansen, Jan (Author)
Dieser Beitrag untersucht das Steuern und Regeln von Wasserinfrastrukturen in Los Angeles zwischen 1870 und 1920. Im Fokus steht dabei die Frage, wie die Stadtregierung und die Wasserwerke versuchten, Nutzerroutinen zu steuern. Gleichzeitig wird der Umgang mit Wasser im Alltag der Stadt analysiert. Ausgehend von der Prämisse, dass Infrastrukturen im täglichen Gebrauch permanent neukonstruiert werden, wird die These vertreten, dass Betreiber und Nutzer in diesem Prozess elementare soziokulturelle Leitbilder der werdenden Stadt aushandelten. So beförderte der An- oder Ausschluss bestimmter Gruppen die Definition ethnischer und sozialer Zugehörigkeit, und die Verhäuslichung der Wassernutzung katalysierte die Herausbildung eines so verstandenen infrastrukturgerechten Verhaltens. Zugleich kristallisierte sich eine politische Mobilisierung in Form von Nachbarschaftsinitiativen heraus, die, wie der Artikel zeigt, die fragmentierte Stadt integrierte und neue Konzepte von häuslichem Komfort beförderte. Einen Schwerpunkt der Analyse bildet die ding- und umweltgeschichtliche Dimension des Wasseralltags. Der Artikel argumentiert, dass materielle Architekturen des Wassers und ökologische Faktoren ebenfalls als subtile Regulierungstechnik zu verstehen sind. [This paper examines the governance of water infrastructure in Los Angeles between 1870 and 1920, focusing on how the city government and water utilities attempted to control user routines. At the same time, it analyzes how water was used in everyday life in the city. Based on the premise that infrastructures are permanently reconstructed in daily use, the thesis is advanced that operators and users negotiated elementary sociocultural models of the nascent city in this process. Thus, the inclusion or exclusion of certain groups promoted the definition of ethnic and social affiliation, and the domestication of water use catalyzed the emergence of what was understood as infrastructurally appropriate behavior. At the same time, political mobilization crystallized in the form of neighborhood initiatives that, as the article shows, integrated the fragmented city and promoted new concepts of domestic comfort. One focus of the analysis is the ding and environmental historical dimension of everyday water. The article argues that material architectures of water and ecolo- gical factors should also be understood as subtle regulatory technology.]
...MoreArticle Martina Heßler; Christian Kehrt (2019) Steuern und Regeln: Einleitung (Control and regulation: Introduction). Technikgeschichte: Beiträge zur Geschichte der Technik und Industrie (pp. 5-10).
Article Schädler, Jonas (2019) Strom kontrollieren, Ströme steuern. Der Stromzähler im Kontext von Objektivierung und Organisierung der Elektrizität zwischen 1880 und 1930. (Control power, control currents. The electricity meter in the context of objectification and organization of electricity between 1880 and 1930.). Technikgeschichte: Beiträge zur Geschichte der Technik und Industrie (pp. 11-32).
Article Kasprowicz, Dawid (2019) Die Umwelt steuerbar designen. Zum Human Factors Engineering in den Jahren 1945 bis 1968. (Design the environment controllably. About Human Factors Engineering, 1945 to 1968.). Technikgeschichte: Beiträge zur Geschichte der Technik und Industrie (pp. 67-96).
Book
John Broich;
(2013)
London: Water and the Making of the Modern City
(/isis/citation/CBB454439004/)
Book
Matthew Gandy;
(2014)
The fabric of space: Water, modernity, and the urban imagination
(/isis/citation/CBB322385433/)
Article
Michael Holleran;
(2022)
Water Qualities and Usage in the Zanjas of Los Angeles, 1781–1904
(/isis/citation/CBB101425694/)
Thesis
Peterson, Maya Karin;
(2011)
Technologies of Rule: Empire, Water, and the Modernization of Central Asia, 1867--1941
(/isis/citation/CBB001567280/)
Book
Wishart, David J;
(2013)
The Last Days of the Rainbelt
(/isis/citation/CBB001420378/)
Article
Schönach, Paula;
(2015)
Expanding Sanitary Infrastructure and the Shaping of River History: River Vantaa (Finland) 1876--1982
(/isis/citation/CBB001422577/)
Book
Smith, Carl S;
(2013)
City Water, City Life: Water and the Infrastructure of Ideas in Urbanizing Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago
(/isis/citation/CBB001420308/)
Book
Melosi, Martin V.;
(2011)
Precious Commodity: Providing Water for America's Cities
(/isis/citation/CBB001212518/)
Book
Ana Duarte Rodrigues;
Carmen Toribio;
(2020)
The History of Water Management in the Iberian Peninsula: Between the 16th and 19th Centuries
(/isis/citation/CBB276030174/)
Book
Wolfe, Mikael;
(2017)
Watering the revolution: an environmental and technological history of agrarian reform in Mexico
(/isis/citation/CBB630915743/)
Book
Rawson, Michael;
(2010)
Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston
(/isis/citation/CBB001034509/)
Book
Matthew V. Bender;
(2019)
Water brings no harm : management knowledge and the struggle for the waters of Kilimanjaro
(/isis/citation/CBB806270320/)
Book
Tim Stroshane;
(2016)
Drought, Water Law, and the Origins of California's Central Valley Project
(/isis/citation/CBB260419535/)
Article
Fonseca, Alberto;
Prado Filho, José Francisco do;
(2010)
Um esquecido marco do saneamento no Brasil: o sistema de águas e esgotos de Ouro Preto (1887--1890)
(/isis/citation/CBB001420442/)
Article
Isacar Bolaños;
(2022)
Water, Engineers, and French Environmental Imaginaries of Ottoman Iraq, 1868–1908
(/isis/citation/CBB594251287/)
Chapter
Jiří Janáč;
(2022)
From Nature to National Networks: Hydraulic Bureaucracy and the Modernization of Waters in Czechia, 1890s–1960s
(/isis/citation/CBB074425583/)
Book
Halliday, Stephen;
(2004)
Water: A Turbulent History
(/isis/citation/CBB000500271/)
Article
Daigger, Glen;
(Spring 2011)
Sustainable Urban Water and Resource Management
(/isis/citation/CBB002951504/)
Book
Jerald Podair;
(2017)
City of Dreams: Dodger Stadium and the Birth of Modern Los Angeles
(/isis/citation/CBB708678452/)
Book
Christina Rae Butler;
(2020)
Lowcountry at High Tide: A History of Flooding, Drainage, and Reclamation in Charleston, South Carolina
(/isis/citation/CBB376520456/)
Be the first to comment!