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“Urbanology is defined as the understanding of incremental developmental processes and daily practices in any given locality through direct engagement with people and places”- Institute of Urbanology<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n
“A critical focus on networked infrastructure — transportation, telecommunications, energy, water, and streets — offers up a powerful and dynamic way of seeing contemporary cities and urban regions (see Dupuy, 1991). When our analytical focus centres on how the wires, ducts, tunnels, conduits, streets, highways and technical networks that interlace and infuse cities are constructed… Continue Reading Networked Cities\/ Networked Infrastructure<\/a><\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n \u201cThe history of cities can be read as a history of water\u201d- Matthew Gandy,\u00a0Concrete and Clay, p. 22.<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n A comparative research project on at the London School of Economics on the future of cities. https:\/\/urbanage.lsecities.net\/#explore <\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n “Study a city and neglect its sewers and power supplies (as many have), and you miss essential aspects of distributional justice and planning power” \u2014Susan Leigh Star, \u201cEthnography of Infrastructure\u201d, p.379.<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n \u201cThe contradiction at the heart of the world class city hence lies in the fact that its future depends more than ever not on the middle class and elite buy in, but rather on the participation of the urban poor\u201d- Asher Ghertner, Rule by Aesthetics, p.21.<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n \u201cWe propose a dual frame for understanding urban nature, in which it is both a bundle of enablers and imagined values for particular forms of urban social life, and, simultaneously, a set of overlapping institutions, processes, and interdependencies through which urban material and cultural life are continually produced, defined and organized\u201d- Rademacher and Sivaramakrishnan, Ecologies… Continue Reading Ecologies of Urbanism<\/a><\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n “The continuing urbanization and overall growth of the world\u2019s population is projected to add 2.5 billion people to the urban population by 2050, with nearly 90 per cent of the increase concentrated in Asia and Africa. At the same time, the proportion of the world\u2019s population living in urban areas is expected to increase, reaching… Continue Reading An Urbanizing World<\/a><\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n “Aspiring cities in the so-called global South challenge disciplinary controls that map cities according to a global division ofglobal capitalist and post-colonial regions\u2026 Arecognition of the changing skylines of the world not only directs our gaze to emerging metropolitan centers, but also points to the fallacies of some key assumptions in metropolitan studies”- Aihwa Ong,… Continue Reading Worlds of Cities<\/a><\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n “The global city framework has been critiqued by scholars \u2014 particularly postcolonial theorists \u2014 who note that cities like Mumbai cannot be described as \u2018splintering\u2019 since they never approximated any modern planning ideal in the first place. Moreover, to characterize a city like Mumbai as simply an incidence of \u2018incomplete modernity\u2019 incorrectly assumes the territorially… Continue Reading Postcolonial Urbanization<\/a><\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n <\/a> <\/div>\r\n \r\n
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