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Writing the Lines of Connection: Unveiling the Strange Language of Urbanization

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  • NATHALIE BOUCHER
  • MARIANA CAVALCANTI
  • STEFAN KIPFER
  • EDGAR PIETERSE
  • VYJAYANTHI RAO
  • NASRA SMITH

Abstract

Across urban studies there is an increasing preoccupation with the forms of articulation that link a multiplicity of cities across a region often known as the ‘Global South’. How do cities such as Jakarta, São Paolo, Dakar, Lagos, Mumbai, Hanoi, Beirut, Dubai, Karachi, for example, take note of each other and engage in various transactions with each other in ways that are only weakly mediated by the currently predominant notions of urbanism? What might be the lines of connection and how do different cities recognize and experience the textures of their different histories and characters? Six urbanists are assembled here to write in conversation with each other as a way to embody possible collaborative lines of inquiring about these issues. Résumé Dans la recherche urbaine, se dessine une préoccupation croissante pour les formes d'articulation qui relient une multiplicité de grandes villes dans une région souvent identifiée comme ‘les pays du Sud’. Comment des villes comme Jakarta, São Paolo, Dakar, Lagos, Mumbai, Hanoï, Beyrouth, Dubaï, Karachi, s'intéressent‐elles les unes aux autres et se livrent‐elles à des transactions mutuelles selon des modalités qui ne passent que très rarement par les grandes notions actuelles d'urbanisme? Quelles pourraient être les voies de raccordement et de quelle manière des villes différentes reconnaissent‐elles et appliquent‐elles les contextures diverses nées de leur histoire et de leurs caractères? Six urbanistes se sont réunis pour rendre compte de leur discussion commune de manière à concrétiser des axes possibles d'études en collaboration concernant ces questions.

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  • Nathalie Boucher & Mariana Cavalcanti & Stefan Kipfer & Edgar Pieterse & Vyjayanthi Rao & Nasra Smith, 2008. "Writing the Lines of Connection: Unveiling the Strange Language of Urbanization," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 32(4), pages 989-1027, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:ijurrs:v:32:y:2008:i:4:p:989-1027
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2427.2008.00827.x
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