In this event the editors and some of the chapter authors will present the books overarching themes and engage with selected cities.
Programme:
18.00 Welcome and introduction
Jonathan Rokem (UCL Geography) and Camillo Boano (The Bartlett Development Planning Unit / UCL Urban Laboratory)
18.15 Book chapter presentations
The tale of ethno-political and spatial claims in a contested city: the Muhajir community in Karachi
Sadaf Sultan Khan, Kayvan Karimi and Laura Vaughan (UCL)
The Embodiment of the Ideology of ‘Development’ in the Practice of Marketplace Coordination in Jakarta
Pawda F Tjoa (Cambridge)
The Camp vs the Campus: Revisiting the contested landscapes of an urban Mediterranean encampment in Famagusta, Northern Cyprus
Moriel Ram (SOAS)
The Medellín's Shifting Geopolitics of Informality: The Encircled Garden as a Dispositive of Civil Disenfranchisement?
Catalina Ortiz and Camillo Boano (UCL)
19.00 Discussants
Matthew Gandy (Cambridge)
Sara Fregonese (Birmingham)
Sobia Ahmad Kaker (Goldsmiths)
Followed by a Q&A with the audience and a drinks reception.
The event is hosted in collaboration with UCL Urban Laboratory and The Bartlett Development Planning Unit, UCL.
No booking required.