Urban Geography Plenary Lecture—on Intersections, Anticipations, and Provisional Publics

Remaking District Life in Jakarta

Bibliographic Data

ID11670440
AuthorsAbdoumaliq Simone (0000-0002-1630-1997, Goldsmiths College, University of London, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume31
Issue3
Pages285-308
Publication date2010-02-26
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueUrban Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0272-3638 • E-ISSN: 1938-2847
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.2747/0272-3638.31.3.285
OpenAlexW2126336485
LanguageEN
Citations received19
References cited13

Primary attention to cities in the Global South tends to focus on how fast they are changing in terms of spectacular new projects, the remaking of city centers, the pushing out of large numbers of urban residents of all social classes, and the extent to which cities are becoming more alike through these major development projects. Alternately, the focus is placed on the poor, on massive slums, insalubrious environmental and social conditions, and the potential threats posed by impoverished and unsettled urban populations. What lags behind is attention to the continued small and medium-level developments of residential and commercial districts that have occupied specific territories within cities for a long time. The article examines scales and domains through which it is possible for residents to provisionally configure ways in which they can recognize collective action and its impact on the making of space and time that raises unforeseen implications for present efforts to govern the city. Additionally, it looks at how urban districts provisionally consolidate unanticipated articulations among different territories and economies across the city

Civil engineering · Economic geography · Economic growth · Geography · Human geography · Political science · Regional science · Social geography · Sociology · Urban geography · Urban planning · Asian Studies and History · Socioeconomic Development in Asia · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies

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