Planning, Counterplanning and Conflict: Changing Trajectories in Mumbai, Amita Bhide
Event details
| Date | 06.04.2016 |
| Hour | 11:00 |
| Speaker | Amita Bhide |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Trajectories of planning in Mumbai have considerably transformed in the last twenty years. Mumbai is a city that has been shaped by planning as much as by informality. These informalities initially emerged as a response to the shortfalls of provision by the state. This began to slowly change in the eighties and informality assumed the form of a regime supported by the state. The turn of the millennium witnessed a further transformation wherein state policies were themselves informalised. Redevelopment became the principal instrument of state policy, and the deployment of incentive FSI/TDR began to be seen as a solution for several of the city’s problems ranging from housing to lack of open spaces. Planning became secondary and decisionmaking linked to making/unmaking of spaces was removed from the public realm. This lecture traces the emergent trajectories of violence and justice in Mumbai in the wake of two decades of such ‘informal’ planning. Resistance to such planning that seeks to bypass structural conflicts in the city then takes the form of engagement with formal planning, seeking to expand the public realm and bringing neglected conflicts to the fore.
Dr. Amita Bhide is Professor and Dean of School of Habitat Studies at Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, India. With nearly 20 years of teaching experience at TISS, Amita has played a significant role in setting up the School of Habitat Studies and in designing the Master’s programme in Urban Policy and Governance.
Dr. Amita Bhide is Professor and Dean of School of Habitat Studies at Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, India. With nearly 20 years of teaching experience at TISS, Amita has played a significant role in setting up the School of Habitat Studies and in designing the Master’s programme in Urban Policy and Governance.
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- General public
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Organizer
- Doctoral program Architecture & Sciences of the City (EDAR)