%0 Journal Article %A Latham, Alan %A Layton, Jack %D 2022 %F discovery:10151886 %I ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD %J Urban Geography %K Social infrastructure, infrastructure, urban geography, public space, sociality, public space %N 5 %P 659-668 %T Social infrastructure: why it matters and how urban geographers might study it %U https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10151886/ %V 43 %X Social infrastructure is an emerging research frontier in urban geography and urban studies. This editorial introduction provides a concise introduction to the term. It briefly sets out the intellectual provenance of the concept of social infrastructure, examining the different ways social infrastructure is being used across urban geography. %Z © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).