Past Events – 2020 to 2021

Research Seminar / Dec 09, 2021 Presented by Ishita Chatterjee, Chaired by Kim Dovey Register here to get the zoom link. Abstract: Informal settlements are the primary means of meeting the demand for affordable housing in the global south countries. Yet, the urban design being produced by this now dominant form of production gets termed […]

The University of the Philippines School of Urban and Regional Planning is hosting a Virtual Public Lecture Series (v-PuLSe) on “Achieving Spatial Justice in Informal Settlements: The Role of Planners, Professionals, and the Academe.” Happening this 02 December 2021, 1:00pm-5:00pm (PST), (4:00-7:00pm AEST) via Zoom, this webinar is in partnership with the UP Open University […]

November 3 (6 pm, Melbourne time) Abstract A substantial share of urban form emerges from the work of nameless ‘designers’, unplanned development and the everyday investments that shape informal urbanism. This is well established in relation to poor-world urbanism, but is also characteristic of cities where state capacities are more developed, capital more abundant, and […]

September 29 (3 pm, Melbourne time) Abstract Urban life is predicated on urban densities and crowds. But while the former are typically understood and managed as problematics of urban governance, the crowd has more often been position as the city ‘in the wild’: unpredictable, suggestible, and a phenomena that might as much be generative of […]

August 4 (4 pm, Melbourne Time) Abstract Both referring to specific territorial formations and impetuses of deterritorialization that can show up perhaps everywhere, urban majorities in South and Southeast Asia increasing “find” themselves located in areas beyond the urban core. These areas hold a multiplicity of divergent trajectories, aspirations, and practices, which simultaneously generate strange […]

he UN has reported that over 90% of reported COVID-19 cases worldwide have come from urban areas, turning the spotlight on cities as the pandemic’s epicentre.

International Webinars 2021 Emerging Scholar Series Read abstracts here

Informal settlements currently house more than a billion people; they are pervasive, expanding and persistent. Some embody slum conditions while others do not.

Symposium Panel on “Co-production and Governance”

Symposium Panel on “Informal Settlements”

Informality and the Pandemic: Thinking about our conceptual vocabularies

Symposium Panel on Public Space Watch here … Presenters / abstracts: ‘Formal’ and ‘Informal’ Modes of Urban Agriculture in Kunming Yuan Wei, University of Sydney The exponential growth of China’s urban sprawl has transformed the once arable land into cities with former rural villages. Several types of urban agriculture (UA) have emerged in urban areas […]

Political upheaval or violent conflict is often characterised by a fundamental failure of governance and the destruction of local economies, and yet in the aftermath of conflict, through informal mechanisms of survival and support, people reconstruct their livelihoods and rebuild urban services.

Rethinking informality

Discussions of urban informality have increasingly drawn attention to various ways in which it is deployed by elite, as well as marginalised, urban actors.

This panel proposes to look at how the notion of ‘future’ is constructed in three different cities across Asia, namely Manila, Delhi and Kathmandu, with an introductory note on Dhaka.