Jakarta, a city rife with disparities like many cities in the Global South, is undergoing rapid change. Alongside its megastructures, high-rise residential buildings, and franchised convenience stores, Jakarta’s massive slums and off-hour street markets foster an unsettled urban population surviving in difficult conditions. But where does the vast middle of urban life fit into this dichotomy?…
Rousing manifesto on the city and the commons from the acclaimed theorist Long before Occupy, cities were the subject of much utopian thinking. They are the centers of capital accumulation as well as of revolutionary politics, where deeper currents of social and political change rise to the surface. Do the financiers and developers control access to urban resources or do the people? Who dictat…
The Brazilian geographer Milton Santos (1979) had written of The Shared Space(originally published in French in 1975 as L’espace partagé which signifies both shared and aproportioned space) identifying dualistic circuits of the urban economy during the 1970s in Latin American, African and Asian cities