A curation of articles, essays, book reviews and interviews on critical geographical concerns.
Considers the spatial form and social processes of cities and urbanization with particular attention to the geographies and politics of building theories of the urban.
Urban mobility is a gendered terrain in South Asia. In City of Men, we learn about the layered experiences of men navigating precarious labor conditions, the emotional toll of migration, and the paradoxes of masculine honor entwined with economic survival.
Although focused on buildings that have since been destroyed, the tone of this genealogy is not mournful. It instead is generative, revealing the creative outputs that have emerged and continue to shape this district. It demonstrates how architecture transforms and is transformed by a range of living and nonliving agents.
In this article, I consider the relationship between urban planning and context by investigating the planning practices associated with a land-use plan in Bordeaux described as “adapted to context.”