From p.arabindoo at ucl.ac.uk Mon Mar 1 21:36:58 2010 From: p.arabindoo at ucl.ac.uk (Pushpa Arabindoo) Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 16:06:58 -0000 Subject: [Urbanstudy] MSc Urban Studies at University College London Message-ID: <006e01cab959$38ae37d0$2f6b5290@uclusers.ucl.ac.uk> MSc Urban Studies at University College London This unique course is a collaboration between four UCL faculties (the Bartlett; Arts and Humanities; Engineering; and Social and Historical Sciences). Students take two core modules in "Urban imaginations" and "City, space and power" and then choose further courses from over twenty optional modules ranging from research training (for the dissertation) to specialist modules such as "Creative cities", "Spatial planning", "Urban design", "Cities in a globalizing South", "Italian cinema and the city", and "Post-colonial theory and the multicultural city." This advanced interdisciplinary programme is aimed at two main groups of students: first, students from a professional background who wish to take an opportunity for critical reflection and skills enhancement for their career development; and second, students who wish to consider embarking on a research career in the urban field and see the MSc as a useful first step towards independent writing and research at PhD or postdoctoral level. Entry requirements are the equivalent of a first or upper-second class degree. Full time, part time and flexible study options are available. For further details visit the course website: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/urbanstudies/ The course is run by the UCL Urban Laboratory: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/urbanlab Academic enquiries to: Professor Matthew Gandy at m.gandy at ucl.ac.uk Professor Nick Phelps at n.phelps at ucl.ac.uk Admissions enquiries to Linda Fuller at linda.fuller at ucl.ac.uk General enquiries to Füsun Türetken at fusun.turetken.09 at ucl.ac.uk Dr. Pushpa Arabindoo Lecturer in Geography & Urban Design UCL Urban Laboratory Department of Geography University College London 26 Bedford Way London WC1H 0AP Tel.: 020 7679 5512 (internal ext. 25512) Fax.: 020 7679 7565 e-mail: p.arabindoo at ucl.ac.uk http://www.ucl.ac.uk/urbanlab http://www.ucl.ac.uk/urbanstudies -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/urbanstudygroup/attachments/20100301/ac11f48b/attachment.html From mitoo at sarai.net Wed Mar 3 11:00:09 2010 From: mitoo at sarai.net (Mitoo Das) Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:00:09 +0530 Subject: [Urbanstudy] Pirate Modernity: Book Discussion Message-ID: <4B8DF3E1.1040007@sarai.net> We invite you to a book discussion of Ravi Sundaram's *Pirate Modernity: Delhi's Media Urbanism, Routledge, London and Delhi. 2010 * *Venue: *CSDS, Seminar Room* Location: *29 Rajpur Road* Date:*Wednesday, March 10th, 2010.* Time: *5pm* * *Discussants *Lawrence Liang Awadhendra Sharan* *Nivedita Menon *Refreshments will follow the discussion* --- Using Delhi's contemporary history as a site for reflection, Pirate Modernity moves from a detailed discussion of the technocratic design of the city by US planners in the 1950s, to the massive expansions after 1977, culminating in the urban crisis of the 1990s. As a practice, pirate modernity is an illicit form of urban globalisation in cities where low cost technologies are accessed by residents. Urban populations increasingly inhabit non-legal spheres: unauthorized neighbourhoods, squatter camps and bypass legal technological infrastructures (media, electricity). This pirate culture produces a significant enabling resource for subaltern populations unable to enter the legal city. Equally, this is an unstable world, bringing subaltern populations into the harsh glare of permanent technological visibility, and attacks by urban elites, courts and visceral media industries. The book examines contemporary Delhi from some of these sites: the unmaking of the citys modernist planning design, new technological urban networks that bypass states and corporations, and the tragic experience of the road accident terrifyingly enhanced by technological culture. Pirate Modernity moves between past and present, along with debates in Asia, Africa and Latin America on urbanism, media culture, and everyday life. The book suggests cities have to be revisited afresh after proliferating media culture. *To order the South Asia edition, visit the Scholars without Borders on-line bookstore: * http://www.scholarswithoutborders.in/item_show.php?code_no=CUL107&ID=undefined&calcStr = *The book is also available in bookstores in India. The international paperback is due this summer. --* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/urbanstudygroup/attachments/20100303/2bc1b4e0/attachment.html From wstafford.jr at gmail.com Thu Mar 11 17:11:36 2010 From: wstafford.jr at gmail.com (William F. Stafford, Jr.) Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:11:36 +0530 Subject: [Urbanstudy] mapping of transportation networks (autos) Message-ID: Dear All, I am working on a small (very small) project to try and map something like a route network for autos around JNU (and surrounding area) to generate something like a route map like you might get for bus routes. Ideally, would want to generate a map with where route system for autos, taxis, buses, etc. would all be given, but that is likely not possible for now. If anyone knows of any research like this (for any city), or research being done, or people interested in such research, or how to do it, I would greatly appreciate any information you could share. Thanks, William -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/urbanstudygroup/attachments/20100311/97311bc6/attachment.html From bhargavi_srao at yahoo.com Thu Mar 11 17:07:08 2010 From: bhargavi_srao at yahoo.com (Bhargavi S.) Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:37:08 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Urbanstudy] =?utf-8?q?=28no_subject=29?= Message-ID: <605768.86198.qm@web113320.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Environmental Social Environment Support Group®– Trust 1572, 36th Cross, 100 Feet Ring Road, Banashankari II Stage, Bangalore560070. INDIA Tel: 91-80-26713559-3561 Voice/Fax: 91-80-26713316 Email: esg at esgindia.org Web: www.esgindia.org Justice & Governance Initiatives 11 March 2010 Combating Climate Change A summer workshop for children (ages 10 -14) Climate change is the greatest environmental challenge facing the world today and we need to help children understand the causes and impacts of our changing environment and how we contribute to it. There have been several conventions, coalitions and conferences held on Climate change across the globe and world leaders have discussed and debated, scientists have revealed studies and reports documenting its possible impacts on mankind and biodiversity. People are increasingly becoming aware of its potential risks and many people have changed to an alternate way of living. It is time children understand this environmental threat and be reassured that it is possible to mitigate climate change. This workshop aims to provide an overview of the causes and consequences and explore the ways in which each of us can make a real difference. The workshop is spread over five days and will include indoor and outdoor sessions that are filled with fun learning activities through films, field visits, stories, games and experiments. In addition to the impacts on environment and health, the workshop will help understand how it will affect our farming and food security. The workshop will take children through a learning journey to understand, appreciate and explore some of our traditional lifestyles that are environmentally, culturally and economically far more feasible through which we can reduce carbon emissions and combat climate change. 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URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/urbanstudygroup/attachments/20100317/8d829dc2/attachment.html From debsinha at gmail.com Fri Mar 19 23:17:31 2010 From: debsinha at gmail.com (Deb Ranjan Sinha) Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:47:31 -0400 Subject: [Urbanstudy] Delhi plans ban on autorickshaws | The Guardian Message-ID: <6FE9E6733AAF46449FC6EB249E081149@csa.ad.mtu.edu> http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/18/delhi-plans-ban-autorickshaws *Dikshit has repeatedly said that making Delhi a world-class city is a key aim. The city has already tried to limit the number of cycle rickshaws. But Delhi's high court ruled last month that capping their numbers was illegal. The defenders of the motorised versions point out that, as the vehicles run on compressed natural gas, their contribution to air pollution in the city is minimal compared with cars. Others argue that rickshaws fulfil an essential function in ferrying people short distances to metro stations or bus stops.* From cugambetta at yahoo.com Mon Mar 22 19:39:34 2010 From: cugambetta at yahoo.com (Curt Gambetta) Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 07:09:34 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Urbanstudy] =?utf-8?q?Fw=3A_Urban_Workshop_CSH-CPR_n=C2=B02?= Message-ID: <103311.28259.qm@web57412.mail.re1.yahoo.com> From:Marie-Helene ZERAH [mailto:marie-helene.zerah at ird.fr] Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 10:48 AM To: 'urbanstudygroup-owner at sarai.net' Subject: Urban Workshop CSH-CPR n°2 Dear All, Please find the announcement for the 2nd CSH-CPR Urban Workshop held on last Tuesday of every month. Apologies for cross-posting, Marie – Hélène and Partha Towards new Poverty Lines for India Dr. Himanshu Assistant Professor of Economics Centre for Studies in Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Fellow at Centre de Sciences Humaines 3:45 pm Tuesday, 30 March 2010 at: Conference Hall, Centre for Policy Research, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi This paper presents the result of an exercise prepared for the Planning Commission's Expert Group to Review the Methodology for Estimation of Poverty to draw up new poverty lines and, correspondingly, new poverty estimates based on the National Sample Survey consumption data. The exercise begins by accepting the official all-India urban poverty estimate of 25.7% for 2004-05, then derives the all-India urban poverty line that corresponds to this head count ratio by using the multiple rather than uniform reference period distribution from the NSS data. It then recalculates, based on this modified poverty line, new state-wise urban and rural poverty lines that reflect spatial variations in the cost of living in 2004-05.The resulting estimates of the incidence of rural poverty show a head count ratio of 41.8% for 2004-05 as against the official estimate of 28.3%. The estimates reveal much larger rural-urban differences but less concentration of either rural or urban poverty in a few states. Although the new poverty lines preserve the official estimate of all-India urban poverty in 2004-05, there are significant changes at the state level. This is the second in a series of Urban Workshops by the Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH), Delhi and Centre for Policy Research (CPR). These workshops will seek to provoke public discussion on issues relating to the development of the city and try to address all its facets including its administration, culture, economy, society, and politics. For further information, please contact: Marie-Hélène Zérah at zerah at ird.fr or Partha Mukhopadhyay at partha at cprindia.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/urbanstudygroup/attachments/20100322/fcbe2fee/attachment-0001.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: UrbanWorkshop2.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 98844 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/urbanstudygroup/attachments/20100322/fcbe2fee/attachment-0001.pdf From cugambetta at yahoo.com Fri Mar 26 22:43:46 2010 From: cugambetta at yahoo.com (Curt Gambetta) Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:13:46 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Urbanstudy] Fw: [HasiruUsiru] Fwd: New unfriendly hawking policy for Bangalore and other cities Message-ID: <806867.16440.qm@web57411.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Thought this would be of interest. I find this totally absurd. Again, the problem as such is totally murky (inconvenience? the old nuisance argument rearticulated...). Curt ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: Kathyayini Chamaraj Sent: Thu, March 25, 2010 12:57:51 PM Subject: [HasiruUsiru] Fwd: New unfriendly hawking policy for Bangalore and other cities Dear all, There are a number of hawker-unfriendly provisions in this new policy. Needs discussion and comment. Regards, K http://www.hindu. com/2010/ 03/25/stories/ 2010032564151400 .htm Government notifies hawking rules B.S. Ramesh Hawkers will not be allowed on roads less than 8 m in width BANGALORE: Bowing to pressure from several quarters and wary of a contempt petition filed in the Karnataka High Court, the State Government has finally decided to regulate and monitor hawking in all cities and towns. The Government on March 19, 2010 issued a notification regulating hawking in the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) limits and other urban areas and prescribing a series of measures to prevent the public and vehicle-users from being inconvenienced. Hawkers have been a boon and a bane. While the poor and the lower-middle- class buy most of their requirements from hawkers, shopkeepers, pedestrians and motorists have been calling for regulating the trade. The main grouse is that hawkers not only occupy footpaths but even roads, inconveniencing people. Over the years, there have been repeated calls to regulate hawking but measures to control hawkers have been half-hearted, and neither the civic authorities nor the police seemed to have a clue how to tackle the issue. A contempt petition filed before a Division Bench of Justice K.L. Manjunath and Justice B.V. Nagaratna on Monday acted as a catalyst and made the bureaucracy, led by the Chief Secretary, to draw up measures to regulate hawking. The notification, issued by the Department of Urban Development, directs all urban local bodies to strictly adhere to the new rules. The notification says the Supreme Court judgment in the Maharashtra Ekta Hawkers Union case has been followed while stipulating the new rules that are expected to come into force shortly. The rules state that hawking will be permitted only if it does not obstruct the movement of traffic or pedestrians. Hawkers cannot use carts and they cannot trade in electronic items such as audio and video goods, cassettes and cameras. Hawkers can sell food items, cut fruits and cooked items. Hawkers can only operate on designated roads between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m. and they will have to pay a fee to the urban local body concerned. However, no hawking will be permitted on roads that are less than 8 m in width. Hawking will not be allowed in residential areas and in localities where trading and commercial activity are prohibited. Not more than one member of a family will be given a licence. Hawking will be prohibited within 100 m of a place of worship, shrines, educational institutions or any market. There will be no hawking on footbridges and overpasses. Soon after the Government placed the rules before the High Court, the BBMP sought at least six months' time to implement the new rules. The Bench, however, said it would give four months' time to all urban local bodies to implement the rules, and if any local body failed to regulate hawking, it would be liable for contempt of court proceedings. 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