Foreword vii
Preface: The Paper Police ix
Introduction: Waste Is Information 1
I Legibility 21
Prologue to Part I: Tracing Waste Geographies 23
1 Visibility 27
2 Reading Structure in Waste 53
Epilogue to Part I: Waste Forensics 87
II Informality 93
Prologue to Part II: Making Informal Waste Systems Legible 95
3 Local Legibility 101
4 Tacit Arrangements: Reading Presence and Practices 117
Addendum: Structures of Brazilian Cooperatives 141
III Participation 151
Prologue to Part III: Crowdsourcing Infrastructure 153
5 Who Is Infrastructure? Participation in Urban Services 157
6 The Urban Problem at the Interface: Reading Governance 177
Epilogue to Part III: Tool or Therapy? Critiques of Civic Technologies 201
Conclusion: A Case for Accountability-Oriented Design 207
Notes 227
References 231
Acknowledgments 259
Index 261
