From cugambetta at yahoo.com Wed Aug 4 02:58:14 2010 From: cugambetta at yahoo.com (Curt Gambetta) Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 14:28:14 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Urbanstudy] Fw: Aug 5th Whitefield Event Invite INTACH Bangalore Message-ID: <789382.10469.qm@web57407.mail.re1.yahoo.com> An event on urban conservation, with a focus on Bangalore, brought to us by INTACH Bangalore. See details below provided by Sathya Prakash Varanashi. Curt ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: Varanashi To: Varanashi Sent: Tue, July 27, 2010 2:37:10 PM Subject: Aug 5th Whitefield Event Invite Friends, It is good to see increasing awareness of heritage matters in recent times. INTACH Bangalore seeks your presence and critical inputs towards implementable ideas for the conservation and development of our contexts, specifically Bangalore. It is an invited group consultation; as such the invite lists no key speakers or panelists, except for INTACH Chairman Maj. Gen. L. K. Guptaji. Also, we are seeking certain informality in inviting you all and conducting it. Kindly bear with us for the simplified protocols. You may feel free to widely circulate this information, among your friends and groups, considering it is a matter of common cause. However, a mail in reply confirming participation would be appreciated. Warmly Sathya Prof. Sathya Prakash Varanashi Convenor, INTACH, Bangalore. 9845016781 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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A preliminary visit to “urban” villages in the Guangzhou region forms a useful lens to reveal a complicated history of autonomous politics shaped economy. Like Bangalore’s National Market, or Delhi’s Gaffar Market, such spaces reveal significant ‘subaltern’ global connections, and deeply implicated in the relationships between local government and land. These traverses also point to the danger of relying solely on the visual representation as witnessed in Beijing and Shanghai’s “High Modernism”, or then, Bangalore’s IT corridor as the only way we think about globalization. Today, post the global financial crises, that model of developmentalism lies shaken if not fractured.   * * * * * *     For further details, please contact Prof. Sangeetha Menon [prajnana at yahoo.com or smenon at nias.iisc.ernet.in], Co-ordinator for Wednesday Discussion Meetings.     * * * * * * *   -K S Rama Krishna- -- N.I.A.S., I.I.Sc Campus Bangalore 560012 Ph:   2218 5000 Fax: 2218 5028 Email: niasoff at gmail.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sollybenj at yahoo.co.in Mon Aug 9 12:54:57 2010 From: sollybenj at yahoo.co.in (solomon benjamin) Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 12:54:57 +0530 (IST) Subject: [Urbanstudy] course on "Reading Cities from the Grassroots" Message-ID: <958119.97015.qm@web8807.mail.in.yahoo.com> Dear all, I am offering the following course at nias on cities. If you are interested do contact me or the admin. cheers Solly ******************************   Name of school:  Social Sciences Subject/ discipline:   Urban Studies Course title:  Reading Cities from the Grassroots Level of course:  200 Number of credits: 3 Type of paper:  Seminar / Lecture Name of instructor(s):  Dr. Solomon Benjamin Brief description: The course will cover key theoretical and methodological issues in contemporary urban studies.  The first part will introduce the diverse urban literature on ideas about cities since the 1920s where we will look at ideas around ‘Town Planning’ as these emerged in responses to civic crises. We will then look at the broad strokes of Master Planning as it confronts a turbulent ‘grassroots’ in the ‘Everyday City’. This forms the basis to discuss the politics behind the planning of new cities like Chandigarh and Brasilia. Such reactions help us consider the approaches towards development planning of the seventies to mid-eighties in urban Asia, Africa, and Latin American: in smaller cities and towns, and also their mega cities. The second part of the course will look at the shift towards ‘urban management’ in the late nineties – part of the efforts to make ‘Southern’ cities to be ‘globally competitive’. Our reading of the ‘grassroots’ (via the case of Bangalore) will emphasize the value of an institutional ethnography to unravel the politics of the new institutional arrangements. This includes a consideration of the politics of participatory planning and decentralization, and how to conceptualize the nature of contemporary urban crises.  The course will draw on popular media, films, the press, and the way these represent the complexity of urban experiences. We will also undertake field visits to contested locations in Bangalore.  Being a seminar course, participants will be required to engage intensively drawing extensively and creatively on the readings – both assigned and supplementary. The grading will be based on a one-page issue based analysis of that week’s readings that all together account for about half the grade. The remaining grade will be an assignment based on individual themes developed by the participants but approved by the instructor.    Prerequisites, if any:  Some social science background is preferable, and those with a Master’s degree and work experience encouraged to enroll.   Starting date and schedule/ timings:  Starting second week of August; Tues – Friday. 10:30-12 noon: First introductory class on 10 Aug 2010                                                                                      -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: