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SUMMARY:Silk Road Urbanization: Cities\, Infrastructure-led development an
 d Global Inequality - Elia Apostolopoulou (University of Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Fleur Nash
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, we will discuss the links between infrastructur
 e-led development\, urban transformation and inequality in China’s Belt 
 and Road Initiative (BRI). The BRI\, also called the New Silk Road\, is th
 e largest single infrastructure project since the Marshall Plan and an exe
 mplar of a new type of infrastructure-led development of a scope and scale
  that has no precedent in modern history. It involves 140 countries and in
 fluences more than 65% of the world’s population. As increasing evidence
  shows\, the New Silk Road is rapidly becoming a global agent of massive u
 rban transformation. By combining large-scale infrastructure with industri
 al projects and major investments in the built environment\, it transforms
  cities to financial\, tourist and trade hubs profoundly changing urban pl
 aces\, socionatures and livelihoods. Nonetheless\, its role for urban deve
 lopment remains under-explored whereas comparative grounded studies are ra
 re. By drawing on urban geography and urban political ecology\, postcoloni
 al geographies\, and global urbanism\, my goal is to offer a relational an
 alysis of divergent trajectories of urban change driven by BRI projects in
  cities across the Global South and North. The key argument I aim to advan
 ce is that urban transformation driven by the BRI signals the emergence of
  a new form of urbanization which I term Silk Road Urbanization that is re
 configuring the patterns of urban inequality across the globe.\n \nThe tal
 k is largely based on this (open-access) paper in Antipode:\nhttps://onlin
 elibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/anti.12699
LOCATION:Delivered online via Zoom
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