Must work for a Farmers agency owner This is not an application, but the following information will be collected to facilitate future conversations in advance of any decision whether to proceed with an application to work for an independent contractor Farmers agency owner or for appointment with any Farmers entities. A concluding section suggests that such metropolitan rescaling projects are redefining the geo-graphies of urban governance throughout the advanced capitalist world.By continuing in this process, I am expressing interest in an agency staff opportunity, and understand that this is not an application for an employment opportunity with any Farmers entity. From this perspective, the current explosion of debates on metropolitan cooperation represents not a movement towards a putative " new regionalism " but rather a " new politics of scale " in which local, state-level and federal institutions and actors, as well as local social movements, are struggling to adjust to diverse restructuring processes that are unsettling inherited patterns of territorial and scalar organization within major US city-regions.
Contemporary metropolitan regionalist projects are interpreted here as place-specific political responses to the new forms of sociospatial polarization and uneven geographical development that have been crystallizing in US city-regions under conditions of postfordist urban restructuring and neoliberal (national and local) state retrench-ment. In contrast to such assumptions, it is argued that contemporary metropolitan regionalist projects in the USA are extremely heterogeneous, both institutionally and politically, and are permeated by significant internal conflicts and contradictions. Many commentators have interpreted the recent proliferation of metropolitan reform experiments in US city-regions as evidence that a new " regional coalition " is being consolidated or as the expression of a singular, unified and internally coherent political agenda. This article provides a critical overview of contemporary debates on metropolitan govern-ance and region-wide cooperation in US city-regions. I conclude by suggesting how the proposed approach may be mobilized to reimagine and reclaim suburban infrastructure as a crucial context and vital mechanism underpinning a progressive polycentric suburban spatial polity. The paper shows that suburban infrastructure can only ever be partially suburban as a result of it co-constituted and over-determined production. Bringing these conceptual frames together constructs a nine-cell matrix that: (1) functions as a heuristic device providing conceptual clarity when discussing the suburbanity of infrastructures (2) promotes comparative analysis across diverse global suburban contexts and (3) develops tools to foreground the dialectical relations internalized in the concrete sociospatial modalities of suburban infrastructure. These relations are captured in two 'three-dimensional' dialectical triads: the first unpacks the modalities of infrastructure in, for, and of suburbs the second discloses the political economic processes (suburbanization), lived experience (suburbanism), and dynamics of mediation internalized by particular suburban infrastructures.
I eschew concerns with definitional bounding to focus analytical attention on the relations between 'the suburban' (broadly considered) and multiple hard and soft infrastructures.
This paper develops an open and flexible comparative theory of suburban infrastructure. However, the analytical significance of 'suburban infrastructure' risks becoming bogged down as a chaotic concept amidst the maelstrom of contemporary peripheral urban growth and the explosion of interest in infrastructure in critical urban studies. Suburban infrastructure holds a position of increasing geographic, political and conceptual importance in a rapidly urbanizing world.
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