This article examines specific ways in which sanitation infrastructure matters politically, both
as a set of materials and as a discursive object in colonial and post‐colonial Bombay. It …

This article historicizes the contemporary urban development and governance strategies in
Cape Town, South Africa, by focusing on two periods: the British colonial era (mid to turn of …

There have been calls to broaden urban theory to incorporate learnings from the Southern
or ordinary cities (periphery). These calls are often placed as a counter to the hegemony of …

Exploring several utopian imaginaries and practices, A Place for Utopia ties different times
together from the early twentieth century to the present, the biographical and the …

This paper takes the development of the British town planning movement as its starting point
to explore a series of challenges for the discipline's historiography. The emergence of the …

At a general level, the collection illustrates the possibilities of comparative urban research. In
particular, it demonstrates how attentiveness to the connections between ordinary urban …

The role of the home, the domestic sphere and the intimate, ethno-cultural identities that are
cultivated within it, are critical to understanding the polemical constructions of country and …

This paper draws on Pierre Bourdieu's notion of 'principles of vision and division'to
conceptualize the role of urban planning in processes of sociospatial differentiation and …

This article presses the case for planning theory to recognize the historicity of historical time,
ie the argument that ideas about how the past, present, and future relate to each other are …

Historically, public health shared common concerns with town planning, as both sought to
create healthy living environments. This article explores how the relationship between the …