Wiring Australian Cities: Making Space for Telecommunications. This project aims to critically examine the ways that land, labour, materials, finance and territorial authority are assembled and contes

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Wiring Australian Cities: Making Space for Telecommunications. This project aims to critically examine the ways that land, labour, materials, finance and territorial authority are assembled and contested in the process of wiring and rewiring Australian cities for telecommunications connectivity. The project will generate new knowledge on how the wiring of Australian cities is achieved, and the geographical and social impacts of the wiring process. Outputs including innovative visualisation tools will generate original insights into the making and materiality of infrastructure space. This will provide significant benefits, including new approaches to identifying and addressing on-going challenges of making space for telecommunications in crowded urban environments.. Scheme: Discovery Projects. Field: 4406 - Human Geography. Lead: Prof Kurt Iveson