Capturing the City. (5th June 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Peters, Robbie
• Is Part Of: International journal of urban and regional research. Volume 44:Number 4(2020)
• Page Start: 743
• Page End: 754
• Publication Date: 2019-06-05
• Subjects: urban revolution -- heterotopia -- kampung -- Surabaya -- biopolitics -- infrastructure; City planning -- Periodicals; Regional planning -- Periodicals; 307.1205
• DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.12793
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0309-1317

Abstract

Abstract: In this essay I use Surabaya as a case study to argue that today's data‐based urbanism excludes people from the city. Data‐based urbanism differs from the revolutionary and counterrevolutionary urbanisms of the past in Surabaya that included people: the revolutionary form enabled the low‐income majority of the kampung neighbourhoods to capture the 'city as a whole' through infrastructure, while the counterrevolutionary form enabled that majority to capture the city in parts through their kampungs. To make the aforementioned points I give the concept of heterotopia a Southern context that brings the low‐income majority to the foreground of urban studies.