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SUMMARY:Telescopic Urbanism - Professor Ash Amin\, 1931 Chair in Geography
 \, University of Cambridge
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CONTACT:Edward Saunders
DESCRIPTION:By 2030 between a third and half of the world's population wil
 l be leading a precarious\, and often abject\, life in the neglected urban
  interstices. Urban scholarship is beginning to turn to this eye-watering 
 problem\, and to questions of sustainable urban competitiveness and growth
 \, but interestingly without referencing one to the other.  This paper cla
 ims that the 'endless city' is being looked at through the wrong end of th
 e binoculars\, with 'business consultancy' urbanism largely disinterested 
 in the city that does not feed international competitiveness and business 
 growth\, and 'UN-Habitat' urbanism looking to the settlements where the po
 or are located for bottom-up solutions to human well-being.  The paper mus
 es on the implications of such an urban optic on the chances of the poor\,
  their areas of settlement\, and their expectations of support from others
  in and beyond the city.  While acknowledging the realism\, inventiveness 
 and achievements of effort initiated or led by the poor\, the paper lament
 s the disappearance of ideas of mutuality\, obligation and commonality tha
 t telescopic urbanism has enabled\, in the process scripting out both gran
 d designs and the duty of distant others to address the problems of acute 
 inequality and poverty that will continue to plague the majority city.\n
LOCATION:CRASSH\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge\, CB3 
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