Humanitiy's Urban Future
What makes a city truly good? Tom and Beth talk with Ash Amin and AbdouMaliq Simone about belonging, inclusion, and how Black urbanism can shape fairer, more connected cities.
In this month’s feature Tom and Beth are joined by two leading scholars of the urban condition - Ash Amin and AbdouMaliq Simone - to reflect on questions of inclusion and belonging in the search for the 'good city'. Building on their collaborative work for the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research's Humanity's Urban Future programme, our guests consider:
- Are ideas of the good city still relevant in face of worsening inequality, segregation and individualism?
- Can a progressive politics of belonging overcome these divisions in a renewed urban public sphere?
- And, as Black History Month draws to an end, how might ideas of ‘black urbanism’ inform and enrich the field of urban studies?
Guests:
AbdouMaliq Simone works on issues of spatial composition in extended urban regions, the production of everyday life for urban majorities in the Global South, infrastructural imaginaries, collective affect, global blackness, and histories of the present for Muslim working classes. He is Professor Emeritus at the Urban Institute and co-director of the Beyond Inhabitation Lab, Polytechnic University of Turin. In this episode he draws on themes explored in his work including and .
