Urban Research Seminar - Comparative Urbanism in practice: The politics of large scale urban developments in London, Johannesburg and Shanghai

Presented by the NYU Urban Initiative

September
30
12:00pm - 1:15pm EDT
Public
Date:
September 30, 2020
Time:
12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location:
Online

The NYU Urban Initiative presents Professor Jennifer Robinson, the first in a line up of eminent international scholars for this year’s multidisciplinary Urban Research Seminar.  This event series is open to the greater NYU community in an effort to integrate NYU's faculty and students with a keen interest in cities.

Jennifer Robinson is Professor of Human Geography at University College London. Her book,

Ordinary Cities (Routledge, 2006) developed a post-colonial critique of urban studies. She is finalising

a new book, on Comparative Urbanism, proposing methodological foundations for a more global

urban studies. Earlier empirical research explored the history of apartheid cities, and the politics of

post-apartheid city-visioning. Current empirical projects focus on the politics of large-scale urban

developments (London, Johannesburg, Shanghai) and the transnational circuits shaping African

urbanisation (Accra, Dar es Salaam, Lilongwe).

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