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作者

Hanna A. Ruszczyk;Alexandra Halligey;Mohammad Feisal Rahman;Istiakh Ahmed

来源

CITIES,Vol.134,Issue1,Article 104150

语言

英文

关键字

Small cities;Liveability;Vitalism;LMICs;Bangladesh;Mixed methods

作者单位

Department of Geography and the Institute for Hazard, Risk and Resilience, Durham University, UK;South African Research Chair in Spatial Analysis and City Planning, School of Architecture and Planning, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa;Johannesburg Institute of Advance Study, SARChI Chair in South African Art and Visual Culture, University of Johannesburg, South Africa;Department of Geography, Durham University, UK;Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Northumbria University, UK;International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), Bangladesh;Department of Geography and the Institute for Hazard, Risk and Resilience, Durham University, UK;South African Research Chair in Spatial Analysis and City Planning, School of Architecture and Planning, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa;Johannesburg Institute of Advance Study, SARChI Chair in South African Art and Visual Culture, University of Johannesburg, South Africa;Department of Geography, Durham University, UK;Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Northumbria University, UK;International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), Bangladesh

摘要

This paper presents a mixed method, participatory exploration of liveability as a stocktaking assessment with projections for urban vitality in cities, particularly in LMIC, small cities. The paper takes as its case study research conducted in 2019 and 2020 in Mongla and Noapara, south west Bangladesh. This paper illustrates firstly, the possibilities for the concept of liveability to produce nuanced, granular understandings of how small cities such as Mongla and Noapara function and are experienced by residents: how residents negotiate social processes, power relations, and access to resources that shape their everyday living. Secondly, the paper considers how liveability enables assessments of a city's vitality in the present and its potential vitality in the future: how cities might cope and develop in the face of rapid urbanization, chronic difficulties, and acute crises. This research combines work in under-researched LMIC small cities, practical research towards more nuanced and socially just deployment of the notion of ‘urban liveability’ and urban vitalist discourse to argue for a people centred urbanism for the future.