[Reader-list] [Announcements] Rethinking Urban Metabolism TOMORROW

[PUKAR @ Kitab Mahal]

Dear Friends:

PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action & Research), in 
partnership with University College London and the U.K. Economic and 
Social Research Council (ESRC) invites you to a seminar titled

"Rethinking Urban Metabolism: Water, Space and Society in Contemporary Mumbai"


It is widely predicted that Mumbai will become the world's largest 
city within the next ten years. The  rapid growth of metropolitan 
Mumbai is placing enormous pressure on the physical infrastructure of 
the city. This pressure is particularly acute in the fields of water 
supply and sanitation. Existing conceptions of the relationship 
between water and cities have tended to focus on technical issues, to 
the relative neglect of political, cultural and historial factors. In 
this seminar, a diverse spectrum of voices will be heard, ranging 
from engineering and urban planning to architecture and film-making, 
in order to explore the meaning and future prospects for water 
provision in Mumbai.


Chair:

MATTHEW GANDY is Reader in Geography at University College London. 
His research is concerned with the cultural and historical aspects of 
urban metabolism, and representations of nature and landscape in the 
visual arts. He is author of Concrete and Clay: Reworking Nature in 
New York City (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2002). He is currently 
writing a book on the cultural histories of urban infrastructure and 
the "hidden city", which involves fieldwork in Los Angeles, Mumbai, 
Lagos and Berlin.

Participants:

DEV BENEGAL is a feature film-maker and director of Split Wide Open 
(2001), clips of which will be screened in the seminar.

NIRUPA BHANGAR is a teacher and consultant on water conservation and 
management based in Mumbai.

NAYAN PAREKH and RACHNA SHETH are architects working with Juhu Together.

B.C. KHATUA is Secretary for Water Supply and Sanitation to the 
Government of Maharashtra.

RAMESH BHATIA is Deputy Municipal Commissioner and Chief Hydraulic 
Engineer of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).


Date:
SATURDAY 5 APRIL 2003
4.00 p.m. to 7.00 p.m.

At:
PUKAR
4th Floor, Kitab Mahal
Dr Dadabhai Naoroji Road
Mumbai 400001

Next to New Excelsior Cinema, near VT Station
Entrance from New Book Company, D.N. Road

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PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action & Research)
P.O. Box 5627, Dadar, Mumbai 400014, INDIA

E-Mail <mailto:secretariat at pukar.org.in>
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