Assembling the Sustainable City: From Sedimented Injustices to Just Urban Futures

I’ll be giving a paper on this panel organized by Connie Smith and Jon Schubert

In the context of enduring ecological and imperial injustices, what might sustainable urban assemblages look like? How do techniques of planning, expertise, finance and services intersect with material landscapes and everyday practices of city-making to shape ideas about desirable urban futures? In a time when imperial, extractive and environmental injustices are still to be reckoned with, while facing the the double impasses of universalist policy prescriptions and reductionist celebrations of ‘informality as opportunity’, this panel explores questions of urban sustainability, justice and solidarity.