[Urbanstudy] Undisciplined City November 30 and December 1 2009

[Vinay Baindur]

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From: Partha Mukhopadhyay <pmukhopadhyay at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 1:54 PM



  *The Undisciplined City*

November 30 and December 1, 2009
Gulmohar Hall, Indian Habitat Centre, New Delhi**





The Undisciplined City is a open workshop that is an attempt to speak to the
urban experiences through multiple disciplinary perspectives or without one,
if it is indeed possible. More prosaically, it is to discover common spheres
of inquiry that may exist across disciplines on specific urban themes and
acquaint each discipline with other discipline’s approaches. To this end, it
is organized across four broad thematic sessions focused on the Indian urban
experience, viz. (a) Urban Politics, (b) Urban Society (c) Urban Economy,
and (d) Urban Interventions. A programme is attached.



Each of the first three sessions will begin with a panel with a short
opening statement from each of the panelists. Each panelist will be from a
separate discipline and will address the session theme from their individual
disciplinary perspectives. We expect the opening statements to be
sufficiently provocative to stimulate a rich open discussion on the session
theme, which may cover important areas of inquiry, existing and ongoing
work, issues of data, implications for issues of urban policy, etc.



The final session will begin with a presentation on JNNURM, the most visible
central urban intervention as well as a short presentation on the creation
of private cities in various states, largely under the auspices of the SEZ
initiative. This will be followed by a discussion on how urban policy is
being conceived and attempted in India.



Please feel free to email me, Partha Mukhopadhyay, on partha at cprindia.org  or
call me on +919810005303 for any questions that you may have.
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