The planet is entering a new era of restructuring through the rapid proliferation of global infrastructure projects that are bundled together into programs that have come to be termed corridors. Across every region of the globe these technological-led, territorial initiatives are being planned, financed, constructed and operated at unprecedented speed and scale by a multitude of intermediaries. What this means for how we think through the urban question remains to be fully addressed. In this lecture series Dr Jonathan Silver sets out to critically examine the ways infrastructure corridors are restructuring multi-scalar geographies from global urbanisation through to the everyday, lived experience of city dwellers. Doing so opens a set of challenges and opportunities about how we might collectively develop an urban theory of these massive transformations into the future.
Lecture One: The Multiple Urban Histories of the Corridor
Lecture Two: Corridor Urbanisation: A New Global Geography?