Tag: Global Urban Theory

  • Polarisation

    Polarisation

    City creation is a practice that evolves historically by allowing different urban actors to contribute within this ‘process of creation’ and that a satellite city negates this choice

  • Changing nature of sociability within privatized public spaces.

    Changing nature of sociability within privatized public spaces.

    Indian cities had a very conducive public realm, which facilitated both intended and un-intended social interactions, by virtue of their spatial settings and social structure. The phenomenon of everyone being someone’s someone, was quite natural within an inclusive public realm in Indian cities.

  • Theorizing Urban

    LECTURE SUMMARY URBAN QUESTIONS • •Academic intent through the city as laboratory. •Social phenomena and social reality •City as regional question •Complexity and irreducibility as challenging •Ecological concerns •Global Perspective INSTITUTIONAL QUESTIONS •Division of knowledge is a hint  to possible need of cooperation •Local Knowledge produced in political and administrative context •Interface between aims of…