Navigating the grid in the "world-class city": poverty, gender, and access to services in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka

在“世界级城市”的电网中航行：印度、巴基斯坦和斯里兰卡的贫困、性别和服务获取

• 批准号: ES/T008105/1
• 负责人: Jonathan Spencer
• 金额: $ 104.32万
• 依托单位: University of Edinburgh
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FT008105%2F1
• 关键词: Navigating; grid; world; class; city

For the past two decades, across South Asia, planners, policy-makers - and property-speculators - have been energetically engaged in efforts to remake cities as 'world class.' Yet these years have seen the deepening of the urban pathologies that such efforts hoped to redress; as a 2016 World Bank report observes, over 130 million people in the region now live in informal urban settlements "characterized by poor construction, insecure tenure and underserviced plots." The poor are not simply left behind in the rush to make the world-class city; rather, our earlier research shows that the forced displacements, that attend world-class citymaking initiatives, often exacerbate problems in accessing urban resources and infrastructural services, particularly for the marginalised. We have also found that, in managing and mitigating the interruptions and upheavals caused by urban removals and dislocations, innovative forms of urban practice, political engagement and creative collaboration have emerged. These, often in partnership with CBOs and NGOs, can lead to pro-poor urban outcomes. Drawing on the strong collaborative foundations in earlier work on urban housing and infrastructures in Mumbai, Lahore and Colombo, we will focus on the efforts of the urban poor to access vital services (water, transport, communications), while attending to the ways in which these efforts intersect with the dynamics that shape patterns of access to urban land and housing. Our project will ask: under what conditions do the formal and informal communicative channels, personal connections, and 'phatic labour' (Elyachar 2005), by which everyday access to urban grids is enacted, encourage pro-poor outcomes? We will work closely with local academic partners in this first phase of the project, but we will also mobilize non-academic partners, including arts-based activists and community groups, planners and politicians, in a series of community engagement events in each city. The goal of each event will be to create workable ideas for improving access to services. To this we add strong South-South collaboration: we will hold regional workshops each year in Colombo, which has the advantage of being equally accessible to Pakistani and Indian colleagues, bringing together project partners and stakeholders from all three sites to share their best ideas.

过去二十年来，整个南亚地区的规划者、政策制定者以及房地产投机者一直在积极致力于将城市重塑为“世界级”城市。然而，这些年我们看到了城市病态的加深，而这些努力希望能够纠正这些病态。正如世界银行 2016 年的一份报告指出，该地区目前有超过 1.3 亿人居住在非正规城市住区，“其特点是建筑质量差、保有权不稳定和地块服务不足”。在建设世界级城市的热潮中，穷人不仅被抛在了后面，而且还被抛在了后面。相反，我们早期的研究表明，参与世界级城市建设举措的被迫流离失所往往会加剧获得城市资源和基础设施服务的问题，特别是对于边缘化群体而言。我们还发现，在管理和减轻城市搬迁和混乱造成的干扰和动乱的过程中，城市实践、政治参与和创造性合作的创新形式已经出现。这些通常与社区组织和非政府组织合作，可以带来有利于穷人的城市成果。借鉴孟买、拉合尔和科伦坡早期城市住房​​和基础设施工作中建立的强有力的合作基础，我们将重点关注城市贫民为获得重要服务（水、交通、通讯）所做的努力，同时关注这些努力与塑造城市土地和住房获取模式的动态的交叉方式。我们的项目将问：在什么条件下，正式和非正式的沟通渠道、个人联系和“日常劳动”（Elyachar 2005）（通过这些渠道实现日常接入城市电网）会鼓励有利于穷人的结果？在该项目的第一阶段，我们将与当地学术合作伙伴密切合作，但我们还将动员非学术合作伙伴，包括艺术活动家和社区团体、规划者和政治家，参与每个城市的一系列社区参与活动。每次活动的目标都是为改善服务的可及性提出可行的想法。除此之外，我们还增加了强有力的南南合作：我们每年将在科伦坡举办区域研讨会，其优点是巴基斯坦和印度同事可以平等参与，将来自所有三个地点的项目合作伙伴和利益相关者聚集在一起，分享他们的最佳想法。

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