ANTC18H3 Lecture 3: Week 3 Readings
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July 26th 2005: monsoon hit mumbai, causing standstill in many neighbourhoods. The idea of a city under water is the stuff of myths. Ideas of mumbai being turned into a world-class city was literally run down the clogging drains. It was an urban dystopia- not a dream city but a nightmare. This dark sentiment also tapped into an existing discourse that portrayed the great city in ruins. Let us sit upon these chairs and tell sad stories of the death of cities , he continues offering a melancholy invitation to mourn the demise of his beloved city. To the elites, the city appears under siege, imperilled by spatial mutations and occupation by the uncivil masses, a wasteland of broken modernist dreams. The elites can no longer recognize buenos aires, for it no longer conforms to the contours of the imagines city of the past. Urban theorists claim that the city no longer exists as a distinct, bounded entity.
