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Harnessing the Transformative Potentials of Southeast Asian Urbanization | November 13, 2024

Urbanization brings problems, pitfalls, and promises. It is possible to transform cities for the better by harnessing urbanization’s positive potentials while mitigating and eliminating its existing, emerging, and often intensifying unintended and adverse impacts. These include uneven access to opportunities and services, inequitable development, environmental degradation, and social polarization, among others. Climate change is exacerbating many of these challenges. The experts in this webinar will illuminate us about these trends and their potentials for transformative change—inclusive, equitable, just, and sustainable—with precious insights into nuances of urbanization and responses from different Southeast Asian contexts.

Reteaching Southeast Asia LuceSEA Webinar | March 6, 2024

Both speakers, Dr. Ashok Das and Dr. Priyam Das discussed how they came to be involved in South Asian studies, particularly in urban planning and policy issues. They examine the global rise of urbanization, the colonial legacy influence on urban planning, and the risks of organizing in urbanization, particularly the difficulty of accessing suitable shelter and services. More importantly, they critically examine the scholarship on urbanization in the Global North and South. And what does it mean to decolonize urban planning education?