Cities: stories of urban STS

This chapter explores stories STS scholars tell about cities: a tale of field formation and transformation, as well as how the urban has de-centred the object of STS. We retell stories about cities as socio-technical infrastructures. Then we focus on stories about urban natures, activist ecologists, the city as a geological intervention, and untameable nonhuman atmospheric elements. Finally, we engage with stories about how participation and do-it-yourself activism in the infrastructuring of urban worlds re-shape what we take the city to be. Each section retells iconic stories and rehearses some key STS insights attached to them.