By Heba Elhanafy, Charter Cities Institute | Planning is a discipline of shifting paradigms, from the functional modern city to the rational-comprehensive approach, to the current return of place. But how has (or will) the discipline shift in response to the rise in recent decades of new city building around the globe? With at least […]
By Lakshya Yog, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India | For some, the virus is capable of illuminating the limits of capitalism (Butler, 2020; Harvey, 2020) while others believe that it holds the potential to normalise the state of exception (Agamben, 2020) and significantly alter urban life (Shenker, 2020), maybe it will, but possibly in variegated, situated, […]
By Nadine Reis (El Colegio de México) & Michael Lukas (Universidad de Chile) The concept of peripheral urbanization is receiving increased attention in global urban theory. Building mainly on Caldeira’s (2017) postcolonial approach, most authors relate the concept to autoconstruction, popular agency and informality, emphasizing people-led urbanization in the Global South. In this paper we […]