Lecture Two: Corridor Urbanisation: A New Global Geography? (in-person)

In the second lecture Dr Jonathan Silver will consider how new corridors initiatives are challenging our ways of knowing and researching the urban. Drawing on a developing database of over 70 multi-modal, cross border corridor initiatives he proposes the need to think about the dynamic of corridor urbanisation as a critical trajectory in the production of urban-regional space. The lecture will explore different perspectives on how urban studies can interrogate this urbanisation process from the geo-political to the economic before arguing for the necessity of an urban infrastructural perspective in extending critical orientations towards these dynamics. This involves thinking through the various investments that constitute the broader constellations of corridor initiatives and the urban geographies through which these infrastructures intersect including ports and hinterlands, railways and roads, real estate enclaves and zones, energy generation schemes and digital technologies. 

 The lecture will be chaired by Dr Yannis Kallianos 

Host or Publisher Urban Institute