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Through a focus on the concrete geographies of transport infrastructure in contemporary Mumbai, this paper develops a critical engagement with assemblage theory and the global city. It details how international consultants, contractors, investors and investment, as well as materials, techniques and technologies, have helped sustain and strengthen M...
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... cover featured photographs of three interna- tionally esteemed urban bridges: Sydney Harbour Bridge, the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco and the Puente de la Barqueta in Seville. In the bottom left, I was told, was an image of a flyover in Dadar in central Mumbai (Figure 8). This was a clear attempt to place transport structures in Mumbai in the same framework as iconic bridges around the world. ...
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... Air and sea corridors are expressed through their land-based nodal points: airports and oceanic ports (Neilson et al, 2018). Worldwide, urbanization proceeds alongside corridors and within or adjacent to nodes, replicating standardized built forms of housing, work and education, consumption and cultural exchange, and recreation (Harris, 2013;Easterling, 2014). In 2017, the Global Infrastructure Connectivity Initiative, a project of the G20, identified 30 newly established or in-planning cross-border trade and transport corridors (not including energy systems) on or between six continents (GICA, 2017). ...
... Air and sea corridors are expressed through their land-based nodal points: airports and oceanic ports (Neilson et al, 2018). Worldwide, urbanization proceeds alongside corridors and within or adjacent to nodes, replicating standardized built forms of housing, work and education, consumption and cultural exchange, and recreation (Harris, 2013;Easterling, 2014). In 2017, the Global Infrastructure Connectivity Initiative, a project of the G20, identified 30 newly established or in-planning cross-border trade and transport corridors (not including energy systems) on or between six continents (GICA, 2017). ...
... Too often in Mumbai, however, as in so many other cities, this form of density-a diverse and changing resource that seems to spill over into various kinds of urban spaces and practices-is portrayed as a congested mess that needs to be removed, regulated, or escaped from. A variety of tactics have been deployed by numerous levels of the state to these ends, ranging from increased efforts to zone hawkers into particular areas, or to demolish their shacks, or to just escape the street through the mass construction of elevated "skywalks" (Harris 2013). These kinds of street densities are increasingly at stake, then, and often are intended to make way for the dominant aesthetics of density that facilitate urban land speculation and economic expropriation. ...
The contributors to Grammars of the Urban Ground develop a new conceptual framework and vocabulary for capturing the complex, ever-shifting, and interactive processes that shape contemporary cities. Building on Marxist, feminist, queer, and critical race theory as well as the ontological turn in urban studies, they propose a mode of analysis that resists the staple of siloed categories such as urban “economy,” “society,” and “politics.” In addition to addressing key concepts of urban studies such as dispossession and scale, the contributors examine the infrastructures of plutocratic life in London, reconfigure notions of gentrification as a process of racial banishment, and seek out alternative archives for knowledge about urban density. They also present case studies of city life in the margins and peripheries of São Paulo, Kinshasa, Nairobi, and Jakarta. In so doing, they offer a foundation for better understanding the connective and aggregative forces of city-making and the entanglements and relations that constitute cities and their everyday politics.
Contributors. Ash Amin, Teresa Caldeira, Filip De Boeck, Suzanne Hall, Caroline Knowles, Michele Lancione, Colin McFarlane, Natalie Oswin, Edgar Pieterse, Ananya Roy, AbdouMaliq Simone, Tatiana Thieme, Nigel Thrift, Mariana Valverde
... Too often in Mumbai, however, as in so many other cities, this form of density-a diverse and changing resource that seems to spill over into various kinds of urban spaces and practices-is portrayed as a congested mess that needs to be removed, regulated, or escaped from. A variety of tactics have been deployed by numerous levels of the state to these ends, ranging from increased efforts to zone hawkers into particular areas, or to demolish their shacks, or to just escape the street through the mass construction of elevated "skywalks" (Harris 2013). These kinds of street densities are increasingly at stake, then, and often are intended to make way for the dominant aesthetics of density that facilitate urban land speculation and economic expropriation. ...
... Too often in Mumbai, however, as in so many other cities, this form of density-a diverse and changing resource that seems to spill over into various kinds of urban spaces and practices-is portrayed as a congested mess that needs to be removed, regulated, or escaped from. A variety of tactics have been deployed by numerous levels of the state to these ends, ranging from increased efforts to zone hawkers into particular areas, or to demolish their shacks, or to just escape the street through the mass construction of elevated "skywalks" (Harris 2013). These kinds of street densities are increasingly at stake, then, and often are intended to make way for the dominant aesthetics of density that facilitate urban land speculation and economic expropriation. ...
Contributor(s): Natalie Oswin, Ananya Roy, Colin McFarlane, Nigel Thrift, Mariana Valverde, Teresa P. R. Caldeira, Filip de Boeck, Caroline Knowles, Edgar Pieterse, Tatiana Thieme, AbdouMaliq Simone, Suzanne M. Hall
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The contributors to Grammars of the Urban Ground develop a new conceptual framework and vocabulary for capturing the complex, ever-shifting, and interactive processes that shape contemporary cities. Building on Marxist, feminist, queer, and critical race theory as well as the ontological turn in urban studies, they propose a mode of analysis that resists the staple of siloed categories such as urban “economy,” “society,” and “politics.” In addition to addressing key concepts of urban studies such as dispossession and scale, the contributors examine the infrastructures of plutocratic life in London, reconfigure notions of gentrification as a process of racial banishment, and seek out alternative archives for knowledge about urban density. They also present case studies of city life in the margins and peripheries of São Paulo, Kinshasa, Nairobi, and Jakarta. In so doing, they offer a foundation for better understanding the connective and aggregative forces of city-making and the entanglements and relations that constitute cities and their everyday politics.
... The purposeful inclusion of 'African' in the traditional 'world-class city' slogan in CoJ policy is a visible way of highlighting the attention to local context in the policies that underpin the Kopanang Bridge (Götz and Seedat, 2006). This also acts to distance these imaginations from other 'worldclass city' interventions, such as infrastructure developments in Mumbai and Delhi where the needs of the elite and middle classes are privileged (Ghertner, 2015;Harris, 2013). ...
... The purposeful inclusion of 'African' in the traditional 'world-class city' slogan in CoJ policy is a visible way of highlighting the attention to local context in the policies that underpin the Kopanang Bridge (Götz and Seedat, 2006). This also acts to distance these imaginations from other 'worldclass city' interventions, such as infrastructure developments in Mumbai and Delhi where the needs of the elite and middle classes are privileged (Ghertner, 2015;Harris, 2013). ...
... In this context, Parnreiter (2012) proposes assessing the transnational constitution of urban spaces specifically with regard to the material, built environment and the transnational ways it is negotiated, planned, and constructed. In recent years, an instructive research literature on the translocal constitution of planning knowledge and practices has emerged (Harris 2013;Söderström 2014;Grubbauer 2015). ...
... In this context, Parnreiter (2012) proposes assessing the transnational constitution of urban spaces specifcally with regard to the material, built environment and the transnational ways it is negotiated, planned, and constructed. In recent years, an instructive research literature on the translocal constitution of planning knowledge and practices has emerged (Harris 2013;Söderström 2014;Grubbauer 2015). ...
The economy transforms much more slowly and much more path-dependently than suggested by economic theories and Löw and Knoblauch’s concept of the refiguration of spaces. This chapter provides an alternative to other prevailing explanations for this sluggishness of spatial transformations: the spatial and temporal coupling of institutions. Using the example of consumer–retailer interactions in West German cities, we show (a) how consumers (demand side) couple shopping with other everyday activities and (b) how retailers (supply side) couple their outlets with other retailers and social institutions, but also (c) how demand and supply side are coupled and (d) how this coupling is embedded in the material urban structure, (e) which in turn is at the root of the slowness in spatial transformations.
... In this context, Parnreiter (2012) proposes assessing the transnational constitution of urban spaces specifcally with regard to the material, built environment and the transnational ways it is negotiated, planned, and constructed. In recent years, an instructive research literature on the translocal constitution of planning knowledge and practices has emerged (Harris 2013;Söderström 2014;Grubbauer 2015). ...
This book examines a variety of subjective spatial experiences and knowledge production practices in order to shed new light on the specifics of contemporary socio-spatial change, driven as it is by inter alia, digitalization, transnationalization, and migration. Considering the ways in which emerging spatial phenomena are conditioned by an increasing interconnectedness, this book asks how spaces are changing as a result of mediatization, increased mobility, globalization, and social dislocation. With attention to questions surrounding the negotiation and (visual) communication of space, it explores the arrangements, spatialities, and materialities that underpin the processes of spatial refiguration by which these changes come about. Bringing together the work of leading scholars from across diverse range disciplines to address questions of socio-spatial transformation, this volume will appeal to sociologists and geographers, as well as scholars and practitioners of urban planning and architecture.
