At the conference, SASNET affiliated researcher Rishi Jha presented his ongoing research on ‘Necrosettlements: Urban Poor’s Rehousing and Death-Worlds in Mumbai’ as part of the panel on Contested urban developments, moderated by Prof. Jennifer Robinson, UCL.. His paper seeks to investigate the complexities of the southern urban from an alternative perspective, and is soon to be published. The abstract can be found here.

Being a leading conference in urban study globally, over 150 established and emerging scholars and practitioners from over 90 institutions and 26 countries participated in almost 50 sessions that considered how land, investment, finance, law and the state are reshaping urban spaces; how processes of reproducing everyday life, identity politics, popular mobilization and contestation are remaking urban experiences; and how challenges of urbanization, such as climate change, data, health, housing and poverty are redefining urban futures. This event is part of Bartlett 100, a year-long celebration in 2019 to mark 100 years since the naming of UCL's faculty of the Built Environment. Follow this link for more details of the conference.

More photos from the conference can be found here.