Blog: Including migrant perspectives in urban planning
“This is a first test of the idea that new migrants are critical in planning and building new cities. If new populations are invisible, the cities will not work for them, nor they for the shared vision of the city.”
This project seeks to incorporate migrant perspectives and sources of innovation into urban planning to build safer and more sustainable cities, addressing environmental sustainability, poverty, and conflict and security.
Principal Investigator: Andrew Shepherd.
Principal Investigator: Katy Jane Gardner. Lead Organisation: University of Sussex
In-migrant workers in Bibiyana
Discordant Development: Global Capitalism and the Struggle for Connection in Bangladesh
What happens when a vast multinational mining company operates a gas plant situated close to four densely populated villages in rural Bangladesh? How does its presence contribute to local processes of ‘development’? And what do corporate claims of ‘community engagement’ involve? Drawing from author Katy Gardner’s longstanding relationship with the area, Discordant Development reveals the complex and contradictory ways that local people attempt to connect to, and are disconnected by, foreign capital.
The oil company : partnership and the moralities of giving and receiving : corporate community engagement comes to Bangladesh
Elusive Partnerships: Gas extraction and CSR in Bangladesh
Based on a comparison of 20 migrant villages in three major Chinese cities, and slums in other developing countries; analysis includes housing development and regulation, with learnings from workshops and capacity building.
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