From murthy.kavya at gmail.com Sun Jan 2 17:11:12 2011 From: murthy.kavya at gmail.com (Kavya Murthy) Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 17:11:12 +0530 Subject: [Urbanstudy] The Delhi Urban Platform: Heritage and the City Message-ID: *The Delhi Urban Platform in collaboration with the Aga Khan Trust for Culture invites you to a panel-* * Heritage and the City* *Date*: Saturday, 8th January, 2011 *Time: * *2.30 pm* - Walk through the Humayun's Tomb Complex with conservationists of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC) * * *4.00 pm* -Panel on heritage *Venue: * Humayun's Tomb Complex The walk starts from the gateway of Isa Khan's Tomb. The panel discussion will be held near the South Gate of Humayun's Tomb All entry will be ticketed http://delhiurbanplatform.org/2010/12/heritage-and-the-city/ ....................................... *Az naksh o nigar dar o divar shikasteh* *Asar padidast sanadid ‘ajam ra* >From the images and designs of the broken walls and gates Are seen the traces of the noblemen of ‘Ajam (Persia) * * n ‘Urfi (d. 1560) This *sh’er* was used by Sayyad Ahmad Khan as the prelude to his magisterial book on the ruins of Delhi, the *Asar-us-Sanadid *(1847, 1854) In Delhi we are surrounded by *dar o divar shikasteh*, the broken walls and gates of ruins and monuments, remainders (and reminders) of the city’s pre-modern past. A set of volumes that painstakingly documents these extant remains calls them the city’s “built heritage” – and a dominant understanding of these ruins sees them as Heritage. But the word itself seems to be little thought about in public discourse. Heritage cannot be understood without the concept of inheritance. If we think of these buildings as heritage then what exactly is inherited through these buildings? And who is it that inherits? Is inheritance (and hence, Heritage) universal; or is it about individuals, families, communities? These questions become crucial in a city where the traces of the past are often enmeshed in legal, political and commercial struggles. Struggles which are not ends in themselves, but which determine how we relate to the city’s past, inhabit its present, and imagine its future. To think through the problematics of heritage and the city, we bring together a panel consisting of archaeologists, conservationists, historians, journalists and religious leaders; who will approach the issue of heritage through their own experiences and engagements with the city and its pasts. The discussion will take place near the Southern Gateway of the Humayun’s Tomb Complex. Before the discussion, there will be a walk through the Humayun's Tomb Complex, conducted by conservationists of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, who have been working on the restoration of the site for several years. The walk will explain the ongoing work on conservation which is a part of the ASI-AKTC project. *Panelists: * *Ratish Nanda*,Project Director, Aga Khan Trust for Culture *AGK Menon*, Urban Planner and Conservation consultant *KK Mohammad*, Director, Delhi Circle, Archaeological Survey of India *Sunil Kumar*, Professor of History, Delhi University *Farid Nizami*, Naib Sajjadah, Dargah Hazrat Nizamuddin *Mayank Austen Soofi*, Blogger, Writer and Journalist The walk will begin from the gateway of Isa Khan's Tomb, which is immediately to your right when you enter from the main entrance to the complex. The panel will be held in the South Gateway to Humayun's Tomb. Access is through the conventional ticketed entry at the main gateway to the complex, and then walking into the Humayun's Tomb enclosure through the western gate. Once inside the charbagh of the main tomb, the southern gateway is diagonally to your right, across the lawns. As this is an ASI protected World Heritage Site, you will have to pay the entry fee to enter the site. While this is a nominal amount for South Asian citizens and Indian residents (10 rupees); it is a much higher charge for foreign nationals/visitors (250 rupees/5dollars). We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and urge you to make the most of your money by coming in time for the walk, and enjoying the January sunshine. Hoping to see you there! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cugambetta at yahoo.com Wed Jan 5 07:35:50 2011 From: cugambetta at yahoo.com (Curt Gambetta) Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 18:05:50 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Urbanstudy] Fw: Properties of the Autonomous Archive, Public Event: January 7, Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <592218.10455.qm@web57411.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Looked of interested, for those in Mumbai. -Curt ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: shaina a To: camp at lists.mailb.org Sent: Tue, January 4, 2011 7:45:37 PM Subject: Properties of the Autonomous Archive, Public Event: January 7, Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai CAMP, 0x2620 and Pad.ma invite you to: PROPERTIES OF THE AUTONOMOUS ARCHIVE A gathering of key internet platforms, archival initiatives and related infrastructures. You are invited to a full day of presentations and discussions on Friday, January 7, 2011. Participants include: Sean Dockray and Fiona Whitton from aaaaarg.org and The Public School, Peter Sunde Kolmissopi from flattr.com, Kenneth Goldsmith from ubu.com, G. Sundar from the Rojah Muthiah Memorial Library, Amar Gurung from Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya, media theorist Matthew Fuller, historian Rochelle Pinto, Rustom Bharucha of the Arna Jharna Museum, the Shared Footage Group, Sebastian Lütgert and Jan Gerber from 0x2620.org, Lawrence Liang and Namita Malhotra from the Alternative Law Forum, Shaina Anand, Sanjay Bhangar and Ashok Sukumaran from CAMP, among other invited observers and participants. "Show me your Properties!" Friday January 7, 10:30 am to 8:00 pm. Max Mueller Bhavan, Kala Ghoda, Mumbai Schedule: 10 15 onwards: TEA and COFFEE 10 45 Introduction. Ashok Sukumaran: autonomy and translation 11 00 Pad.ma: people annotate describe make add 11 45 Kenneth Goldsmith: If we had to ask permission, we wouldn't exist: a brief history of UbuWeb and the law 12 30 Sean Dockray: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARG.ORG 1 15 LUNCH BREAK 2 45 Shared Footage Group: Its past and future 3 30 G Sundar and Amar Gurung: Archiving in the vernacular, experiences from Tamil and Nepali 4 15 Rochelle Pinto: The mundane state - historians in a state archive 5 00 TEA BREAK 5 30 Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi: Flattr, the need for alternative financial views 6 15 Matthew Fuller: Two evil media stratagems: structure data & know your sorts 7 00 Lawrence Liang and Sebastian Lütgert: Privacy and Scandal: Radia tapes and Wikileaks 8 00 CLOSING DISCUSSION Saturday, January 8 Workshop (if you would like to attend write to info(AT)camputer.org) This event is supported by the 50 years of the Goethe Institut in India program. PROPERTIES OF THE AUTONOMOUS ARCHIVE "Beyond the status of the archive as property lie the properties of the archive, which can destabilize and complicate received notions of rights." - from Pad.ma, Ten Theses on the Archive, no. 9. Not only rights, of course, but ALL received notions. The proverbial dust of the historical archive, its actual censorious or smiling archivists, the digital archive's protocols, video codec or "social network", all of these things crowd the archive, its imagination and reproduction. In other words, the archive's real properties tend to destabilize ideal characteristics we may ascribe to it. And tend to take us into exciting side-streets of constraint and possibility, often beyond the motivations or will of authors, rights holders, and even archivists themselves. Such a sensitivity towards properties (not restricted to physical qualities, and extending both the usual sense of property and its ethical sense as "proper", or propriety) can help express better the work of the archive in our times, acknowledge its role as "media", and suggest how its metaphorical and allusive capacities can be made stronger. That is, how the archive may be related to creative and artistic practices, which is one of our main intuitions with Pad.ma. Practices that, in general, are always entangled with the properties of the materials they work with. So that the focus on footage and not finished films in Pad.ma for instance, asks for a recalibration of ethics and politics around film. The discussion that we hope to have then, is about such qualities and powers of contemporary archives: including their stable or emergent properties, their performance and beauty, survival and capacity, and autonomy. Why autonomy? Or, autonomy from what? Well partly, from the old and still-valid categories: control by state and corporate interests, historiography of and by the powerful, and from "subjection" in general. But also, by declaring that autonomy is a basic, ontological property of the archive and its contents, atleast two (related) claims are being made: 1. Materials in the archive are not exhausted by annotations, "users", or any uses the material may be subjected to. The irreducibility of materials to narratives means that these are deep reservoirs to which we and others can return, and from which new ideas, experiences and effects can continually be drawn. 2. The autonomy of the archive inverts the logic of people as autonomous (as free consumers, choosers, users) and the archive as merely a resource, as something to be used. Such an archive then has a riskier, more open-ended relationship with the future. "In declaring their autonomy, archives seek to produce norms beyond normativity, and ethical claims beyond the law." [1] It is likely that this discussion will take us beyond the metaphor of the archive, to its roots and branches, its fruits and farms, and to the ideas and initiatives that now neighbour it, in a changed landscape. It is clear for example that "found" materials are no longer found, like objet trouve, as if lying unattended on the road. Many of the things we care about or can work with, are to be found in private or protected territory. But also, increasingly, amidst vast oceans of digital "raw material", as the Wikileaks example shows us. In such an alien (to ideas of culture, or social traditions) landscape, how can individuals or groups act, what analytical tools or creative infrastructures can be built, even at our smallest, scrappiest, and most experimental levels of "making history", as Marx put it in a related context, "in circumstances not of our own choosing"? [2] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From yanivbin at gmail.com Wed Jan 5 23:55:23 2011 From: yanivbin at gmail.com (Vinay Baindur) Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 23:55:23 +0530 Subject: [Urbanstudy] Rio de Janeiro favelas to get facelift as Brazil invests billions in redesign Message-ID: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/05/rio-de-janeiro-favelas-brazil<%20http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/05/rio-de-janeiro-favelas-brazil> Rio de Janeiro favelas to get facelift as Brazil invests billions in redesign Architects grapple with the problem of integrating the shanty towns into the city - - - Share - [image: Reddit] - [image: Buzz up] - [image: Tom Phillips] - - Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro - guardian.co.uk , Sunday 5 December 2010 18.33 GMT [image: A military helicopter over Morro do Alemao] A military helicopter flies over the Morro do Alemao favela. Photograph: Antonio Scorza/AFP/Getty Images Behind a turquoise, graffiti-scarred door on the edge of downtown Rio sits a 67-year-old man wearing Bermuda shorts. Glancing between two computer monitors, he hammers out a plan to save his city. "It's not even about ideals," he says. "I have four children, a load of grandchildren and they live here. All I can do is try to improve a little bit of the city for those [generations] that are coming. It is fundamental." Welcome to the practice of Luiz Carlos Toledo, a veteran Brazilian architect and one of hundreds of local * urbanistas* battling to create a bold new blueprint for one of the most pressing and perplexing questions in Rio and much of our increasingly urban world: how to transform, develop and integrate sprawling, often crime-ridden slums into the outside city? Such issues are nothing new to Rio, one of the world's most unequal and violent cities, where the rich and poor live side-by-side yet in apparently distinct universes. But they are increasingly urgent, following the latest round of deadly gunfights between police and drug traffickersthat culminated in thousands of security forces storming the city's most notorious shantytown and evicting hundreds of heavily armed gang members last week. At least 39 people were killed. With the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics on the horizon, authorities are engaging in two simultaneous battles to improve life in the favelas: implementing "pioneering" pacification schemes in the slums and splashing out billions of dollars remodelling the favelas as part of an urbanisation initiative called Morar Carioca (roughly "Rio Living"). The selection process, which ends next month, will see 40 architecture practices tasked with redesigning 582 inner-city slums that house around 1.2 million impoverished and excluded Brazilians. Last week Rio's mayor, Eduardo Paes, said 19 creches, five health clinics and one cinema would be constructed in the Complexo do Alemao and the Complexo da Penha slums, the scenes of some of the worst violence. "This will be the biggest and most extensive intervention in the favelas in Rio's history," said Pierre Batista, the city's undersecretary for housing. "Our goal is to urbanise all of the favelas by 2020 – no matter where they are." For most of last century authorities and many residents gazed up at the favelas and heard one word: "removal". Slums in the city centre and its beachside south zone were bulldozed and their residents dispatched to drab and distant housing estates such as the City of God, made famous by Fernando Meirelles's blockbuster film. Sergio Magalhães, the president of Rio's Architecture Institute, the IAB, which is co-ordinating Morar Carioca, admits that until the early 1990s most architects had given favelas hardly a thought. Now, he believes, that mentality is changing as planners focus on "integration" rather than removal and some firms start to specialise in, and profit from, such work. "An architect can no longer believe he has miraculous formulas which he can impose on society. Contemporary urbanism is not a closed model. It is about [embracing] all possibilities … and above all the recognition of what already exists and what each community has already managed to build. In this sense Rio de Janeiro is a very important lesson in urbanism for the world." Like Toledo, Magalhães has spent decades grappling with the Rubik's Cube of how to integrate marginalised slums with the wider city. Until Haiti's January earthquake he was working on similar projects in Port-au-Prince . Magalhães said Brazil 's growing expertise in favela urbanisation and the economic impetus of the Olympics meant it was now "technically possible and economically viable" to give the slums an unprecedented facelift. "London's Olympics can be a very important example – the way London is using the Olympics to recover a poor and rundown area. But here the Olympics can be much more relevant than in London … a city with far fewer problems than Rio. Here it could [revolutionise] the city," he said. In several giant, drug-ridden favelas work has already begun. Walkways, cable-cars, roads and swimming pools are springing up in areas such as Rocinha, Manguinhos and the Complexo do Alemao, a gritty sea of redbrick shantytowns that was recently "conquered" by thousands of security workersfollowing intense shootouts involving helicopters, armoured personnel carriers and tanks. Future projects, funded by the state and federal governments and international banks, could see light railways erected. Toledo's most recent intervention, a radical remodelling of the city's largest shantytown, Rocinha, even featured a dramatic, curved walkway by Brazil's legendary architect Oscar Niemeyer. Niemeyer, now 102, reportedly handed over his design free of charge. "I have been involved in major projects but I have never done such important work as in Rocinha," said Toledo, who spent a year working out of a temporary practice in the shantytown developing ideas with suggestions from some of its estimated 110,000 residents. "When I urbanise a favela I'm trying to activate that economy, hoping that the area will gain a social and economic dynamic that is similar to the rest of the city." Toledo described his work as an attempt to demolish the "invisible walls" that had been erected around the city's slums since his childhood, when he roamed freely in the Fogueteiro shanty near his home. Today the dilapidated slum is controlled by rifle-toting members of the Red Command drug faction and off-limits to most outsiders. "This city was not divided like it is now. There was not this segmentation. Today it is as if they have put invisible walls up around the favelas … It is intolerable living in Rio de Janeiro today. It is a city under siege. It reminds me of Northern Ireland during the Troubles, when you couldn't go from one block to another. It was madness and Rio de Janeiro is the same." But, privately, some urban planners wonder if installing cable-car networks is an effective use of public money or merely an attractive proposition for contractors. Others fear the favelas will be given a superficial makeover to "beautify" the city for tourists and warn that without major investment in job creation and education schemes, urbanisation alone will not be enough. "We welcome urbanisation, as long as there is community participation and as long as it is not just makeup," said Jose Martins de Oliveira, a 64-year-old community leader from Rocinha. "Residents must be heard. If they don't listen to the community it can be a very dangerous process." Concern that some communities will be "removed" from areas close to Olympic venues also persists. Some limited demolitions have already been announced. "It worries me," said Oliveira. "I know of places they are planning to totally remove. Removal is an affront to a family. Urbanisation is one thing. Removal quite another." Batista, the undersecretary, said Morar Carioca could represent the "great social legacy" of the Olympics, with the construction of "clinics, creches, schools and transport". "It is a daring plan, but one that we will see through. After this project there will no longer be this barrier between the slums and the city below." In his practice, a stone's throw from the city's transsexual red-light district, Toledo was putting the finishing touches to his vision for Rio's future. "I'm an old man," he sighed. "Today I fight for this – as an architect, a citizen, a father and a grandfather – because without this the city has no solution … If we do not face up to this problem the city will become unsolvable before the Olympics … and for me [the solution] is about habitation." -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From murthy.kavya at gmail.com Fri Jan 7 19:27:24 2011 From: murthy.kavya at gmail.com (Kavya Murthy) Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 19:27:24 +0530 Subject: [Urbanstudy] Reminder: The Delhi Urban Platform- Heritage and the City Message-ID: Dear All, Hoping you can make it tomorrow! We start our programme at 2 30 pm, with a walk with conservationists from the Aga Khan Trust for Culture. The panel begins at 4 pm. The walk will begin from the gateway of Isa Khan's Tomb, which is immediately to your right when you enter from the main entrance to the complex. The panel will be held in the South Gateway to Humayun's Tomb. Access is through the conventional ticketed entry at the main gateway to the complex, and then walking into the Humayun's Tomb enclosure through the western gate. Once inside the charbagh of the main tomb, the southern gateway is diagonally to your right, across the lawns. As this is an ASI protected World Heritage Site, you will have to pay the entry fee to enter the site. While this is a nominal amount for South Asian citizens and Indian residents (10 rupees); it is a much higher charge for foreign nationals/visitors (250 rupees/5dollars). We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and urge you to make the most of your money by coming in time for the walk, and enjoying the January sunshine. Hoping to see you there! http://delhiurbanplatform.org/2010/12/heritage-and-the-city/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carol.upadhya at gmail.com Mon Jan 10 12:46:34 2011 From: carol.upadhya at gmail.com (Carol Upadhya) Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:46:34 +0530 Subject: [Urbanstudy] =?utf-8?q?Public_Lecture=3A_Preservation_and_Uncerta?= =?utf-8?q?inty=3A_The_Modern_City_in_the_Age_of_Globalization=2C_b?= =?utf-8?q?y_Vikram=C4=81ditya_Prak=C4=81sh=2C_January_24?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: *The NIAS Urban Research and Policy Programme invites you to a Public Lecture* * * *organised under the Lecture Series 'The City in Question'* *Preservation and Uncertainty: * *The Modern City in the Age of Globalization* ** by *Vikramāditya Prakāsh* Professor of Architecture, University of Washington * * * * *Date: *Monday, January 24, 2011 6.00 p.m. (tea at 5.30) *Venue: *Lecture Hall National Institute of Advanced Studies Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bangalore 560012 *Abstract:* In spite of the uniform whitewashing of the world implied by the term, globalization’s effects as experienced at its frontiers are unpredictable, multifarious and unstable. The future of our cities and urban culture, from the horizon of the present, is uncertain. Under the circumstances, preservation as a cultural practise, a discourse on what must be saved and what not in response to specific threats, emerges as a process of managing change. Preservation as such can be studied as an index not just of cultural value, but also of the effects of the forces of globalization. Based on the work of the University of Washington’s Chandigarh Program, Dr. Vikramāditya Prakāsh will discuss some of the ways in Chandigarh is faring the storm of globalization. *About the speaker:* Dr. Vikramāditya Prakāsh is Professor of Architecture and Adjunct Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Washington. He grew up in Chandigarh. He received his B. Arch. from the Chandigarh College of Architecture and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Cornell University, USA. He taught at CEPT, Ahmedabad, and Arizona State University, before joining the University of Washington. Dr. Prakāsh has served as Associate Dean of the College of Architecture and Urban Planning and as Chair of Architecture. Dr. Prakāsh’s books include *Chandigarh's Le Corbusier: The Struggle for Modernity in Postcolonial India* (2002), *A Global History of Architecture*(with Francis DK Ching & Mark Jarzombek, 2010) and *Colonial Modernities: Building, Dwelling and Architecture in British India and Ceylon* (co-edited with Peter Scriver, Routledge, 2007). A Global History is being translated into five languages. Dr. Prakāsh is partner in Verge Architecture with Leah C. Martin and Chetna Purnami. He lives in Seattle with his wife and three children. He dabbles in painting and poetry, and is a theater enthusiast. An unpublished play lurks on his harddrive somewhere. * * *About the lecture series:* The Urban Research and Policy Programme at NIAS emphasises an inter-disciplinary approach to understanding cities and the importance of substantive research to inform policy. 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URL: From cugambetta at yahoo.com Sun Jan 16 12:30:37 2011 From: cugambetta at yahoo.com (Curt Gambetta) Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 23:00:37 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Urbanstudy] Fw: Call for Papers : SAMAJ - South Asia Multidisciplinay Academic Journal Message-ID: <29792.84079.qm@web57402.mail.re1.yahoo.com> ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: Marie-Hélène Zérah To: cugambetta at yahoo.com; Vinay Baindur Cc: Stéphanie Tawa Lama-Rewal Sent: Thu, January 13, 2011 10:36:01 PM Subject: Call for Papers : SAMAJ - South Asia Multidisciplinay Academic Journal Dear Colleagues, Please find below a call for paper on Rethinking Urban Democracy in South Asia for a special issue of SAMAJ (http://www.samaj.revues.org). SAMAJ, The South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to social science research on South Asia. It specializes in the publication of comparative thematic issues as well as individual research articles, review essays, and book reviews. Committed to disseminating rigorous scientific research to the widest possible audience, SAMAJ is fully and freely accessible on line. Call for Paper Rethinking Urban Democracy in South Asia Since the 1990s, one observes in several South Asian countries a simultaneous implementation of political decentralization (granting a larger role to civil society, in a broad sense) and of urban reforms, mostly influenced by a neoliberal agenda. In parallel, many South Asian megacities have recently been the site of mobilizations around issues of land use, housing, urban services, environmental preservation and working conditions (conflicts around wages, street vending activities), which take various forms from voting to street demonstrations and riots, participation in consultations, recourse to the judiciary, press campaigns (including through the internet), etc. There is a need to explore critically how these three processes intersect, and this special issue of SAMAJ aims precisely to explore the relationships between urban restructuring and urban mobilizations in the subcontinent. In this regard, one line of thought favours the idea of dissent as an intrinsic force to explain the materiality of South Asian cities, which are often seen as sites of chaos and inefficiency. Whether it relates to infrastructure provision, urban planning or changes in land use, contestation appears to increase along with urban transformation, thereby undermining the program of urban reforms. A less common, but equally important question, relates to the extent to which the functioning of this 'insurgent' urban democracy (Roy 2009) affects the functioning of the city. Indeed, the diverse sites of urban democracy must be explored not only per se, but also to understand whether they are a source of strength for cities by fostering public debate or a weakness by preventing the emergence of minimal consensus, if one looks at them as sites of economic development and social mobility. Yet another strand of research focuses on the constitution of a coalition of elites and middle class groups to push for urban projects and changes in land uses that promote cities as sites of growth and tend to exclude poorer groups through a denial of their citizenship rights. Are these propositions mutually exclusive, or can they be seen as ongoing parallel processes? To answer this question, we need to compare and analyse case studies of mobilizations around specific urban projects or reforms, exploring the reasons for their success and/or failures. Such a comparison would contribute significantly to our understanding of the nature of urban democracy in South Asia, which has to be distinguished from the notion of local democracy. The latter notion does not seem adequate to evoke the multiple, partly overlapping jurisdictions that define the arena of decision-making concerning big cities: the 'urban' is much larger than the 'local'. Moreover, while 'local democracy' often refers to local politics in a restricted sense (i.e., local elections and municipal government), the notion of 'urban democracy' encompasses a variety of types of mobilization including, but not restricted to, electoral participation. Thus the notion of urban democracy aims to articulate democracy (i.e., people's participation in decision-making through voting and other means) and the urban (i.e., changes in the material conditions of living that characterize agglomerated inhabited space). As far as the existing literature is concerned, the diversity of mobilizations in cities is not an unknown territory for social sciences: it has already been studied in South Asia from various perspectives, and most lately in a series of works that can be qualified as 'urban governance studies' - insofar as they focus on the relationships between the many types of actors who take part in the management of urban affairs. However one can discern lacunae in this body of work, several of which concern the type of actors that have attracted attention. Firstly, governance studies usually distinguish between government, the corporate sector, and civil society. But recent cases of urban protests suggest that such categories need to be further deconstructed, so as to understand better the role of less studied (at least at the urban level) actors, such as the judiciary, trade unions, political parties, or the media. Indeed the focus has usually been on the most visible actors and movements, whose rising influence is linked to urban reforms (for instance neighbourhood activism, activism around the right to information, environmental organizations...). As these were mostly initiated by the State, less attention has been given to mobilizations from below. Secondly there is a need to question the validity of influential theories that tend to privilege binary models conflating a group of actors with a type of expression, thus pitting 'political society' against 'civil society' (Chatterjee 2006), or 'old politics' against 'new politics' (Harriss et al. 2004). Are these categories sufficiently robust to explain power relationships in the city and their transformation? Are they able to capture the reality of those urban protests and mobilizations that result from unexpected coalitions of actors? Do studies that shift their attention to less visible actors provide a more nuanced understanding of the city inhabitants and their institutions? Moreover, governance studies have highlighted the strong dependence of local government on other levels of government, as well as its proximity to private actors such as the corporate sector. It appears today that this analytical framework has neglected, to some extent, the political dimension of decentralization. Indeed an international academic debate has emerged around the unresolved location of democratic control in a context where elected governments seem to be marginalized among the various actors involved in decision-making processes. This special issue of SAMAJ would like to contribute to this debate with a focus on South Asian megacities, where decentralization has been analysed to date in a perspective that is more managerial than political. In other words, this issue wants to question the existence, specificity and manifestations of urban democracy in contemporary South Asia. In order to address this research agenda, and to initiate a comparison, we invite papers focusing on city-based protests around specific urban projects in one or several of South Asia's large cities, as these constitute a privileged prism through which to observe the materiality of democratic expression in South Asian megacities today: Who gets mobilized? For what? How? And with what measurable impact? Does the materiality of democratic expression take a similar shape and have the same content all over South Asian megacities? And if differences prevail, what factors are to be taken into account in order to explain them? Articles dealing with understudied actors and processes, such as the traders' communities, trade unions, or the increasing role of the media, would allow a more incisive depiction of the state of urban mobilizations, and would therefore be most welcome, particularly if they concern Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. It might also be interesting to focus on the genealogy of the observed forms of expression, highlighting the circumstances of their rise and/or decline, in order to better understand changes in mobilizations in relation to the urban changes of the last two decades. Issue Coordinators: Stéphanie Tawa Lama-Rewal (Research fellow, CNRS-CEIAS, Paris) Marie-Hélène Zérah (Research Fellow, IRD and CSH, New Delhi). Submissions: The coordinators encourage contributions covering the whole of South Asia (contributions on Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka would be particularly welcome). Deadlines: Proposals (100 to 150 words) by February 28, 2011. 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The constitution of a high level Transport Policy Development Committee, headed by the former deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India, Rakesh Mohan, reflects this. The last time a comprehensive view of transport was taken at the national level was in 1980 when the B.D. Pande committee submitted its report. Much has happened since then. India's economic transformation from a near-closed economy to a fast liberaliser led to a significant stepping up of economic activity, particularly by the private sector, and resulted in higher individual spending capacity. While the former meant increased flow of goods and services, calling for better freight facilities, the latter translated into both higher purchasing power for personal transportation modes and higher effective demand for better public transport. Liberalisation has also spawned its own huge inequities. A fresh policy has to factor in the harsh reality that the overwhelming majority, in the region of 800 million Indians, live in poverty. This calls for a more active state role as a provider of subsidised transport and as an effective regulator, particularly since the trend is to move towards a system that facilitates private players. The terms of reference of the Rakesh Mohan committee are wide: they range from “assessing the transport requirements for the next two decades” to “assessing the investment requirements” of the sector. Although there are several issues that jostle for attention, there is an urgent need to develop a comprehensive policy for road transport as this mode carries 87 per cent of India's passengers, moves 60 per cent of its freight, and is in serious disarray. Efficient inter-State, intra-city, and rural transport systems will reduce losses, improve connectivity, and open up more economic opportunities. The most shocking lapse of state policy is the decline of public transport. *As a Parliamentary Standing Committee rightly pointed out, the decline of buses in the total fleet of vehicles from 11 per cent in 1951 to a paltry 1.1 per cent in 2004 h*as meant an increase in personalised transport. This leads to avoidable economic losses due to higher fuel expenditure, apart from widening inequalities. The retrogressive trend needs urgent reversal. A policy that accords primacy of space to an affordable, efficient, and integrated public transport system will be key to fixing India's transport troubles. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Vikram Prakash lecture NIAS poster.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 252434 bytes Desc: not available URL: From cugambetta at yahoo.com Fri Jan 21 02:40:05 2011 From: cugambetta at yahoo.com (Curt Gambetta) Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 13:10:05 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Urbanstudy] Fw: CFP (Durham U.): "Everyday Infrastructure and the City" (4 Feb. deadline) Message-ID: <218161.29974.qm@web57403.mail.re1.yahoo.com> (Courtesy of the H-Urban list) ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Wendy Plotkin To: H-URBAN at H-NET.MSU.EDU Cc: Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 1:09 PM Subject: CFP (Durham U.): "Everyday Infrastructure and the City" (4 Feb. deadline) From: Renu Desai "Everyday Infrastructure and the City" One-day workshop at Department of Geography, Durham University Thursday May 5th, 2011 Organized by Renu Desai (Durham), Colin McFarlane (Durham), and Steve Graham (Newcastle). Call for Papers: deadline for abstracts Feb 4th, 2011 While urban infrastructure has become a focus of debates on urban change, there have been relatively few attempts to examine the politics of infrastructures on an everyday basis. Recent years have seen a wide and diverse range of contributions that have demonstrated the centrality of infrastructures to a variety of urban processes and forms: for example, in the social relations of inequality in the city; in the making and unmaking of social collectives and urban life; in the emergence and consumption of privatised and customised infrastructures; in the relationship between urban ecologies and social differentiation; as a site of capitalist expansion and transformation; or in the presence and removal of infrastructure through urban demolition or militarization (e.g. Coutard, 2008; Coward, 2008; Kaika, 2005; Gandy, 2005; Graham, 2010; Graham and Marvin, 2001; Hodson and Marvin, 2009; Page, 2005; Shove et al, 2007; Swyngedouw, 2004; Thrift and French, 2002; Young and Keil, 2009). Across this multifaceted and critical set of debates, there has been relatively little explicit consideration of how a focus on the everyday might inform our conception of urban infrastructures and their role in urban production, negotiation and contestation. This workshop will bring together empirical and theoretical accounts that engage with the everyday production, negotiation, improvisation, contestation and life of urban infrastructures. It will examine how the geographies and temporalities that constitute the everyday feature in the production and reproduction of urban social relations. The everyday is both a key domain through which practices are regulated and normalized as well as an arena for negotiation, resistance and potential for difference and newness. Possible themes might include but are not delimited to: • Everyday materialities of urban infrastructure: How are urban infrastructures produced, assembled, disrupted, repaired, improvised through everyday practices? How does this materiality of urban infrastructure become enrolled in reproducing and/or challenging particular power relations over time? • Micro-politics of urban infrastructure: How do everyday practices regulate, control, contest and negotiate access to urban infrastructures? How are uneven power relations implicated in the micro-politics of infrastructure, and under what conditions do those politics change through time? • Urban infrastructure and experience: How are people's everyday experiences shaped by urban infrastructures and how do those experiences alter? What are the implications of these experiences for work, livelihood, health, education, etc? How do social norms shape people's practices, people's perceptions and social relationships around urban infrastructure? How are moral economies of infrastructure produced and contested over time? • Resistance and alterity: How do forms of urban resistance emerge through everyday encounters with infrastructure? How do alternatives emerge that might reformulate the nature of urban infrastructure? We welcome papers that explore these questions with regard to any urban infrastructure - from water, sanitation, and electricity, to transport, digital and militarised infrastructures ­ and we welcome contributions from diverse disciplinary perspectives. The workshop is funded through an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) project on the experience and politics of urban sanitation and water infrastructures in Mumbai. Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words by February 4th to the organizers: Renu Desai (renu.desai at durham.ac.uk), Colin McFarlane (colin.mcfarlane at durham.ac.uk), and Steve Graham (steve.graham at newcastle.ac.uk). References Coutard, O. (2008) 'Placing splintering urbanism: Introduction'. _Geoforum_, 1815-1820. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V68-4TYXM6M-2&_user=10&_coverDate=11%2F30%2F2008&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_origin=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1614185112&_rerunOrigin=google&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=d56fd00994f896942fa326ddff9b852c&searchtype=a Coward, M. (2008) _Urbicide: The Politics of Urban Destruction_. London: Routledge. http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415461313/ Gandy, M. (2005) "Cyborg urbanization: complexity and monstrosity in the contemporary city. _International Journal of Urban and Regional Research_ 29.1, 26-49. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-2427.2005.00568.x/abstract;jsessionid=A1E9C330E270BD6CEDFDF0E719FB1C88.d01t02 Graham, S. (2010) _Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism_. London: Verso. http://www.versobooks.com/books/365-cities-under-siege Graham, S. and Marvin, S. (2001) _Splintering Urbanism: Networked Infrastructures, Technological Mobilities and the Urban Condition_. London: Routledge. http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415189651/ Hodson, M. and Marvin, S. (2009) ''Urban Ecological Security': A New Urban Paradigm?'._International Journal of Urban and Regional Research_, 33:1, 193-215. http://econpapers.repec.org/article/blaijurrs/v_3a33_3ay_3a2009_3ai_3a1_3ap_3a193-215.htm Kaika, M. (2005) _City of Flows: Modernity, Nature and the City_. London: Routledge. http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415947152/ Page, B. (2005). "Paying for water and the geography of commodities." _Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers_ 30(3), 293-306 http://www2.geog.ucl.ac.uk/~bpage/files/Transactions.pdf (full text) Shove, E. Watson, M., Hand M., and Ingram, J. (2007) _The Design of Everyday Life_. Berg: Oxford. http://www.bergpublishers.com/?tabid=2586 Swyngedouw, E. (2004) _Social Power and the Urbanization of Water: Flows of Power._ Oxford: Oxford University Press. http://www.us.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Geography/Physical/?view=usa&view=usa&ci=9780198233916 Thrift, N. and French, S. (2002) "The automatic production of space." _Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers_ 27: 309-335. www.dourish.com/classes/.../ThriftFrench-AutomaticProductionSpace.pdf (full text) Young, D. and Keil, R. (2010) 'Reconnecting the disconnected: the politics of infrastructure in the in-between city'. _Cities_, 27:2, 87-95. hhttp://top25.sciencedirect.com/subject/social-sciences/23/journal/cities/02642751/archive/26 Renu Desai Research Associate Department of Geography Durham University http://www.dur.ac.uk/geography/staff/geogstaffhidden/?id=7432 ************************************************************************************************************ H-Urban Posting/Mailing Address: h-urban at h-net.msu.edu (mailto:h-urban at h-net.msu.edu) (H-Urban editor-on-duty reviews *all* mail, including postings and e-mail directly to the editors. You do not have to subscribe to post. Nothing is posted directly to list. Feel free to write us at this address if you have a question, comment, or problem with your subscription.) 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The author Roos Gerritsen is an anthropologist whose research focuses on popular visual culture in South India. She obtained her MA degree in Anthropology at Leiden University, The Netherlands, and her MA research provided insight into notions of romance and memory through a study of wedding videos and photo albums in Tamil Nadu. On a related note, we would like to announce an international seminar being held in Chennai, India, next week on the theme of street art: Urban visualities: Sites and Sights of Street Art An international seminar, artist workshop and exhibition January 28-30, 2011 Dakshina Chitra, Chennai Urban visualities is a series of events consisting of an artist workshop, international seminar, and exhibition on art and spectacle in public places in India and beyond. It explores image circulations in and contestations of the public realm. The types of visualities addressed here range from cinema imagery, religious hoardings, advertizing images to political statues and murals. Prior to the seminar, an artist workshop will be held in which artists from various backgrounds from India and beyond will produce several works together. The results of the artist workshop will be exhibited in an exhibition dedicated to the theme. The exhibition will be opened at the start of the seminar. The exhibition displays the work of Sundeep Bali, David Blamey, Ranjan De, Murugan, Ramachandran, Ravikanth & Prabath Kumar (Raqs Media Collective), Vishal Rawlley, Yousuf Saeed, Ebenezer Singh, Joyston Vaz, and photos by Shirley Abraham & Amit Madheshiya, Roos Gerritsen, Kiran Keswani, Joanna Kirkpatrick, and Kathryn Myers. The opening reception of the exhibition will be on January 28 18:00 pm at DakshinaChitra. Everyone is welcome to join and contribute during the workshop. 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Lys-Dobradin, Director, Global Network Programming" Subject: Studio-X Mumbai: Architecture of Consequence | February 10 - 13 Studio-X Mumbai: Architecture of Consequence | February 10 - 13 Follow us on Twitter Friend us on Facebook To Celebrate the Launch of STUDIO-X MUMBAI MARK WIGLEY Dean, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation Columbia University and RAJEEV THAKKER Director, Studio-X Mumbai Invite you to the opening events for ARCHITECTURE OF CONSEQUENCE February 10 - 13, 2010 Studio-X Mumbai Kitab Mahal Fourth Floor 192, D N Road Fort Mumbai 400 001 Free and open to the public. 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The talk will focus on the cultural aspect of ecosystem services, exploring the meaning of trees in Bangalore, the services they provide, and the prevailing governance structures. Date: February 2, 2011 Time: 3 pm Venue: ATREE auditorium (ATREE is in Jakkur, for directions to our office please see http://maps.atree.org/atree_route_map.php) All are cordially invited best regards Harini __,_._,___ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From outtes at uol.com.br Thu Jan 27 07:43:33 2011 From: outtes at uol.com.br (Joel Outtes) Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:13:33 -0200 Subject: [Urbanstudy] CFP: AHA, Chicago Feb 5-8, 2012. Message-ID: <224D6D8ECA4243FEA1A42E813BF2FFCF@JoelLaptop> Hello Colleagues, I am interested in proposing a panel for the next AHA-American Historical Association annual meeting to take place in Chicago between January 5-8, 2012. My paper will be about the subject below and I would invite papers on transnational history, urban history or the history of institutions and/or social sciences to complete the panel. Please send your abstract to me until January 30. The Urban International: International Urban Institutions and their Comparative History Joel Outtes* - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Amanda Fialho Moraes - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Renata Carrero Cardoso - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Ana Cristina Castagna - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Sthefania Dezordi Duha - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Abstract: The research investigates the network of (for the moment) 27 international urban institutions concentrating on the history of two institutions, the IFHP-International Federation for Housing and Planning and UCLG- United Cities and Local Governments, its characteristics, network of participants, changes in its policies as well as the role of countries, institutions, groups and individuals in its decisions, policies and intellectual output. The IFHP was created as the International Garden-Cities Association in 1913 and still exists. UCLG was created as IULA-International Union of Local Authorities also in 1913 and still exists. The work investigates the role of these institutions in the international flow of planning thought and practice, in urban management as well as their role in the constitution of a transnational community of planners. One of the questions to be discussed is how far certain national, regional and particular experiences in housing, planning and management were adopted in certain periods by the institutions. In another direction, the resonance or influence of certain ideas and policies of the IFHP and UCLG in specific, national or regional experiences in housing, planning and related areas will also be explored. 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