Urbanization and Environment

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Week-1:
Module 01: The Urban and the Environment during the Era of the “Overlapping Cenes”

Lecture 01: Setting the Context
Lecture 02: The Anthropocene
Lecture 03: The Nine Planetary Boundaries Framework
Lecture 04: The Capitalocene
Lecture 05: The Urbanocene
Lecture 06: COVID 19, Urban Informality and Environment: Context Global South
Week 2:
Module 02: The Search for “Sanitary” and “Sustainable Cities”
Lecture 07: “Sanitary Cities”: Urban, Environment and Modernity in the West
Lecture 08: Networked Cities: “Path-dependent” Consequences
Lecture 09: From “Sanitary” to “Sustainable” Cities
Lecture 10: How “sustainable”? Critical analysis of contemporary urban models
Week 3:
Module 03: Urban (environmental) Trajectories in India: Plans, Policies, Visions and Missions
Lecture 11: Historical Pasts
Lecture 12: “Colonial Urbanization”
Lecture 13: Limits and Legacies of “Colonial Urbanization”
Lecture 14: The Post-independence Scenario: “Planned Cities” and Renewal Missions
Lecture 15: “Smart Cities” Lecture 16: “Smart Cities”: Critique and Contestations
Week 4:
Lecture 17: “Fantasy Cities”? Understanding Limits of “Smart”, “Eco” and “Green” Doctrines Case Study 1: Dholera
Lecture 18: “Fantasy Cities”? Understanding Limits of “Smart”, “Eco” and “Green” Doctrines: Case Study 2: New Town Rajarhat
Lecture 19: “Fantasy Cities”? Understanding Limits of “Smart”, “Eco” and “Green” Doctrines: Case Study 3: Lavasa
Week 5:
Module 04: Urban Environmental Social Sciences Frameworks
Lecture 20: Urban Environmental History: The US Part I: Context and Themes
Lecture 21: Urban Environmental History: The US Part II: More Thematic Variations and Global Influences
Lecture 22: Urban Environmental History: Europe Part I: Context and Themes
Lecture 23: Urban Environmental History: The US Part II: Recent Advances
Week 6:
Lecture 24: Urban Environmental History: South Asia [SAUEH] Part I.A: The Prelude: Inception and the Initial Wave [SAEH]
Lecture 25: Urban Environmental History: South Asia [SAUEH] Part I.B: (More) Nuanced Narratives [SAEH]
Lecture 26: Urban Environmental History: South Asia [SAUEH] Part II: Trends and Trajectories
Lecture 27: Urban Environmental History: South Asia [SAUEH] Part II: Trends and Trajectories (Contd.)
Lecture 28: Urban Political Ecology Part I: Emergence and Development
Lecture 29: Urban Political Ecology Part II: (More) Recent Advances
Lecture 30: Urban Political Ecology Part III: Internal Debates and New Political Possibilities
Week 7:
Lecture 31: Urban Political Ecology: The Indian Context Part I: Themes and Concepts
Lecture 32: Urban Political Ecology: The Indian Context Part II: (More) Recent Advances
Lecture 33: Historical Urban Political Ecology (HUPE): Blue Infrastructures of Kolkata
Lecture 34: Urban Environmentalisms
Lecture 35: Urban Environmentalisms: Case Study 1: The Adi Ganga Bachao Andolan
Lecture 36: Urban Environmentalisms: Case Study 2: Protests to Protect the EKW
Week 8:
Module 05: First Hand Narratives: Learnings from Research Projects
Lecture 37: Translocal Learning for Water Justice: Peri-urban Pathways in India, Tanzania and Bolivia
Lecture 38: Informing Urban Disaster Studies using Comparative Urban Environmentalism
Lecture 39: Urban Environmental Heritage: Insights from Bengal’s Mini-Europe
Lecture 40: The Way Forward

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