Infrastructure networks are emerging as critical technological and physical assets of modern urban regions. These networks are complex, multi-layered, and have power and politics embedded within them, with impact being felt across different scales. Building on the idea that planning offers different visions, fantasies or imaginations of the future, I look specifically for agency and where it lies in the context of large infrastructure projects. Whose visions, imaginations and fantasies do these mega-projects represent? Drawing on work done on industrial infrastructure programmes in the Indian context, this commentary focuses specifically on locating agency within this process of building infrastructure and draws on a series of cases of infrastructure development in the Indian context through which intra-scalar governance processes can begin to be analysed and understood.

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分离的现实：通过对大型基础设施项目的想象来理解规划和治理

基础设施网络正在成为现代城市地区的关键技术和物理资产。这些网络是复杂的、多层次的，并且嵌入了权力和政治，在不同规模上都能感受到影响。基于规划提供对未来的不同愿景、幻想或想象的理念，我专门寻找能动性以及它在大型基础设施项目中的位置。这些大型项目代表了谁的愿景、想象和幻想？借鉴印度背景下工业基础设施计划所做的工作，本评论特别关注在基础设施建设过程中定位代理，并借鉴了印度背景下基础设施发展的一系列案例，通过这些案例可以开始分析和理解标量内治理过程。