Comments on: Of cities and slums http://www.spaceandculture.org/2006/06/19/of-cities-and-slums/ Welcome to Space and Culture - the international journal and weblog dedicated to social spaces of all kinds. Sun, 16 Oct 2011 20:07:05 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: e-tat http://www.spaceandculture.org/2006/06/19/of-cities-and-slums/comment-page-1/#comment-134 e-tat Mon, 19 Jun 2006 21:55:00 +0000 http://www.spaceandculture.org/?p=517#comment-134 "All interesting, but I'm left wondering when "urban" and 'city' become synonymous with 'slum'?"<br/><br/>Perhaps the term reflects planners' despair at the prospects for planned cities. Perhaps they've given up on the dream of an orderly urbanity and their disappointment comes through in nihilistic language. <br/><br/>Just guessing. But have been thinking along <a HREF="http://e-tat.blogspot.com/2006/06/urban-form-as-expression-of-poverty.html" REL="nofollow">somewhat similar</a> lines the last day or so. <br/><br/>Also, regarding Vancouver, <a HREF="http://urbanplacesandspaces.blogspot.com/2006/06/high-density-living-in-vancouver.html" REL="nofollow">here</a>'s an interesting post. “All interesting, but I’m left wondering when “urban” and ‘city’ become synonymous with ’slum’?”

Perhaps the term reflects planners’ despair at the prospects for planned cities. Perhaps they’ve given up on the dream of an orderly urbanity and their disappointment comes through in nihilistic language.

Just guessing. But have been thinking along somewhat similar lines the last day or so.

Also, regarding Vancouver, here’s an interesting post.

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