Category: Media
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As coronavirus forces us to keep our distance, city density matters less than internal density
The coronavirus pandemic has left many people questioning the relationship between urban density and healthy cities. -
We can’t let coronavirus kill our cities. Here’s how we can save urban life
The COVID-19 pandemic restrictions have reminded us of the vital role public space plays in supporting our physical and mental well-being. -
Dhaka in between the formal-informal
How do you situate Dhaka in terms of its potential to study urban issues?infur.msd.unimelb.edu.au/2020/01/13/dhaka-in-between-the-formal-informal
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We’re still fighting city freeways after half a century
Like the modernist plans of its time, the 1969 Melbourne Metropolitan Transportation Plan was bold in ambition. Major motorways have been built across the city as a result of the plan. For Melbourne, the aspiration of the 1969 plan lives on in our relentless pursuit of new mega-road projects.infur.msd.unimelb.edu.au/2019/12/11/were-still-fighting-city-freeways-after-half-a-century
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Market-led infrastructure may sound good but not if it short-changes the public
The privatisation of services in Australian cities has weakened public control of key infrastructure. This is likely to accelerate as governments look to market-led proposals to provide infrastructure. -
Formality & Informality: Part one: Definitions & Dimensions of informality
Listen to the “Breaking Paradigms” podcast featuring Kim Dovey in an episode titled “Formality & Informality” -
Ananya Roy at InfUr-: Interview with Kim Dovey and Crystal Legacy
Ananya Roy is Professor of Urban Planning, Social Welfare, and Geography and The Meyer and Renee Luskin Chair in Inequality and Democracy at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is inaugural Director of the Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA, which promotes research and scholarship concerned with displacement and dispossession.infur.msd.unimelb.edu.au/2019/10/22/ananya-roy-at-infur-interview-with-kim-dovey-and-crystal-legacy
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Property as Simulacrum: Informality and Illegality in the Postcolony
BE—150 Dean's Lecture: Ananya Roy - Property as Simulacrum: Informality and Illegality in the Postcolony -
What sort of ‘development’ has no place for a billion slum dwellers?
Imagine a community of 200,000. Convivial, walkable, six times the density of Manhattan but with a smaller ecological footprint. It provides low-cost services and affordable housing mixed with productive uses such as recycling, farming and trading. It’s a city within a city. -
Informal Urbanism = Democracy?
At the inaugural event of InfUr-, Mark Purcell gave a lecture where he posed the question as to whether informal urbanism hold potential for the practice of radical democracy.infur.msd.unimelb.edu.au/2018/09/11/informal-urbanism-democracy
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