'History, Memory and the City: An urban planner’s view' a talk by Dr. Neema Kudva at Seminar Room, Library Building, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 2nd April 2014
Time : 3:00 pm
Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Place : Seminar Room, Library Building, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi - 110011
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Event Description : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to a Public Lecture (in the ‘Cities in History’ series) on ‘History, Memory and the City: An urban planner’s view’ by Dr. Neema Kudva, Cornell University, USA.
Abstract : Planners work in the present through a vision of the future, while historians work in the present looking to explain the past. Regardless of whether we plan cities or uncover histories, our work is bounded by those who hold power to structure the public imagination and produce particular narratives. It is equally bounded by the evidence we seek in order to engage: from surveys, censuses, archives, and narratives rooted in memory and forgetting. Drawing on her work exploring growth and planning in the city of Mangalore, the speaker will explore the intersections between planning and history. We are all familiar with the instrumental use of selected historical fragments to justify preservation and restoration of monuments and places. As planners, particularly in some parts of the world, the urge to establish continuity of place and memory is strong. And yet, the diversity and mobility that is at the heart of cities every where, and the vision of the future that often seeks to displace the past is often central to the work of making the city. In the fast growing smaller cities of India, we often have few and fragmented recorded histories, narratives and counter-narratives to work through or against. How then do we begin to understand history, memory and the city?
Speaker : Dr. Neema Kudva is Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University, USA. She directs the International Studies in Planning Programme and is faculty lead of the interdisciplinary Nilgiris Field Learning Center, a collaborative project of the Keystone Foundation and Cornell University. Her recent research focuses on international urbanization, particularly issues related to small cities and their regions, and on institutional structures for equitable planning and development at the local level. Dr. Kudva is co-editor of the Cities of the Global South Reader (with Faranak Miraftab, in press 2014), Rethinking Informalization (with Lourdes Beneria, 2005) and is working on a monograph on planning in the South Indian city, Mangalore.
Website links:
City and Regional Planning at Cornell Universityhttp://www.aap.cornell.edu/crp/
ISP http://aap.cornell.edu/academics/crp/graduate/planning/mrp/concentrations/international
Nilgiris FLC https://blogs.cornell.edu/nflc/
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Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Place : Seminar Room, Library Building, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi - 110011
Venue Info : Events | About | Map | Nearest Metro Station - 'Race Course(Yellow Line)'
Event Description : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to a Public Lecture (in the ‘Cities in History’ series) on ‘History, Memory and the City: An urban planner’s view’ by Dr. Neema Kudva, Cornell University, USA.
Abstract : Planners work in the present through a vision of the future, while historians work in the present looking to explain the past. Regardless of whether we plan cities or uncover histories, our work is bounded by those who hold power to structure the public imagination and produce particular narratives. It is equally bounded by the evidence we seek in order to engage: from surveys, censuses, archives, and narratives rooted in memory and forgetting. Drawing on her work exploring growth and planning in the city of Mangalore, the speaker will explore the intersections between planning and history. We are all familiar with the instrumental use of selected historical fragments to justify preservation and restoration of monuments and places. As planners, particularly in some parts of the world, the urge to establish continuity of place and memory is strong. And yet, the diversity and mobility that is at the heart of cities every where, and the vision of the future that often seeks to displace the past is often central to the work of making the city. In the fast growing smaller cities of India, we often have few and fragmented recorded histories, narratives and counter-narratives to work through or against. How then do we begin to understand history, memory and the city?
Speaker : Dr. Neema Kudva is Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University, USA. She directs the International Studies in Planning Programme and is faculty lead of the interdisciplinary Nilgiris Field Learning Center, a collaborative project of the Keystone Foundation and Cornell University. Her recent research focuses on international urbanization, particularly issues related to small cities and their regions, and on institutional structures for equitable planning and development at the local level. Dr. Kudva is co-editor of the Cities of the Global South Reader (with Faranak Miraftab, in press 2014), Rethinking Informalization (with Lourdes Beneria, 2005) and is working on a monograph on planning in the South Indian city, Mangalore.
Website links:
City and Regional Planning at Cornell Universityhttp://www.aap.cornell.edu/crp/
ISP http://aap.cornell.edu/academics/crp/graduate/planning/mrp/concentrations/international
Nilgiris FLC https://blogs.cornell.edu/nflc/
'History, Memory and the City: An urban planner’s view' a talk by Dr. Neema Kudva at Seminar Room, Library Building, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 2nd April 2014
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