Planning for social sustainability in Indian cities: Lessons in identifying and designing spaces of co-presence and community
Topics: Urban and Regional Planning
, Development
, Urban Geography
Keywords: informal settlements, social justice, spatial justice, co-presence
Session Type: Virtual Paper Abstract
Day: Friday
Session Start / End Time: 2/25/2022 03:40 PM (Eastern Time (US & Canada)) - 2/25/2022 05:00 PM (Eastern Time (US & Canada))
Room: Virtual 75
Authors:
Jessica R Barnes, Northern Arizona University
Amar Sawhney, Miami-Dade College
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Abstract
One of the key aspects of sustainability is social sustainability, which emphasizes equity, social justice, and community resilience as a way to humanize cities by nurturing strong communities (Hemani and Das, 2016). High levels of spatial segregation based on caste and religion have been identified throughout many of the major cities in India, despite the notion that urbanization and economic development would erode the stigmas associated with caste. Such segregation fosters discrimination in access to education and job opportunities and dehumanizes others stoking tensions that can erupt into communal violence (Chatterjee, 2009). Rapid urbanization across India has resulted in the growth of unplanned settlements that are often spatially segregated by caste (Ganguly, 2018; Waghmore & Contractor, 2015; Webb, 2013; Vithayathil & Singh, 2012; Field et al, 2008). Co-presence consists of people of different identities sharing space as a means to gain knowledge about and acceptance of others – a counter practice to segregation (Legeby, 2013). We examine spatial segregation and co-presence in two cities in northern Indian: Chandigarh, the capital city of both Punjab and Haryana states with about 1 million people and Shimla, the capital of Himachal Pradesh with about 200,000 people.
Planning for social sustainability in Indian cities: Lessons in identifying and designing spaces of co-presence and community
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