Shin comments:
How do we perform critical urban studies in the anglo-phone literature? Whose urban studies is it?
Shin:
I appreciate that you provincialise but also challenge the dominance of the European context
Shin:
When you talk about how these informal processes came to exist and how they have come to be regulated, a few things I wondered about: how did the "Spanish Flu" impact these processes?
Shin:
The ways the urban was conceptualised at the time, and how those changed the way cities were designed in response.
Also, the end of WWI, producing so much devastation that puts constraints on states, peoples and urban or rural environments. What of this and your study?
Shin: Also, there is a challenge of how to overcome the colonial gaze or situate what's happening here within that colonial gaze
Manzano:
The Flu definitely had a huge impact, especially in terms of segregation, in some instances the poor from the wealthy
Manzano:
At that time Morocco was a Spanish protectorate and that is definitely something to consider here, as well as the French colonies and wars happening. I would like to research this more.
Olivia Engström begins: ‘Spatial Resilience Tactic of Urban Public Space Repurposing in the Shrinking City: The Sustaining Community of Estonian Border City of Narva’
Engström:
Sustainability discourse entered all dimensions of our lives
In Narva, I examine urban public space repurposing, dynamics of spatial meetings
Post-socialist transitions here brought big changes, lost jobs, shrinking cities
Urban public space repurposing can show strategies of resilience
I performed a multi-cited ethnography to explore the ways people make sense of the city