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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 continued and 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 range of voices will be 
heard, from urban planning and film-making, to explore the meaning 
and future prospects for water provision in the contemporary city.


Seminar 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.

Seminar Participants:

SHEELA PATEL is the Executive Director of SPARC (Society for the 
Promotion of Area Resource Centres), Mumbai.

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

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

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

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



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

At:
PUKAR
4th Floor, Kitab Mahal
Dr Dadabhai Naoroji Road
Next to New Excelsior Cinema
Bombay 400001

R.S.V.P.
Phone Rahul Srivastava or Shekhar Krishnan at 2207 7779


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P.O. Box 5627, Dadar, Mumbai 400014, INDIA

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