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CATEGORIES:eijs2's list
SUMMARY:Telescopic Urbanism - Professor Ash Amin\, 1931 Ch
 air in Geography\, University of Cambridge
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URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/36821
DESCRIPTION:By 2030 between a third and half of the world's po
 pulation will be leading a precarious\, and often 
 abject\, life in the neglected urban interstices. 
 Urban scholarship is beginning to turn to this eye
 -watering problem\, and to questions of sustainabl
 e urban competitiveness and growth\, but interesti
 ngly without referencing one to the other.  This p
 aper claims that the 'endless city' is being looke
 d at through the wrong end of the binoculars\, wit
 h 'business consultancy' urbanism largely disinter
 ested in the city that does not feed international
  competitiveness and business growth\, and 'UN-Hab
 itat' urbanism looking to the settlements where th
 e poor are located for bottom-up solutions to huma
 n well-being.  The paper muses on the implications
  of such an urban optic on the chances of the poor
 \, their areas of settlement\, and their expectati
 ons of support from others in and beyond the city.
   While acknowledging the realism\, inventiveness 
 and achievements of effort initiated or led by the
  poor\, the paper laments the disappearance of ide
 as of mutuality\, obligation and commonality that 
 telescopic urbanism has enabled\, in the process s
 cripting out both grand designs and the duty of di
 stant others to address the problems of acute ineq
 uality and poverty that will continue to plague th
 e majority city.\n
LOCATION:CRASSH\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, C
 ambridge\, CB3 9DP
CONTACT:Edward Saunders
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