Planned, Unplanned, and the In-between: Interactions of Architecture, Space, and Experience
For the first time in history, more than half of the world’s population now lives in urban areas in twenty-first century. Urbanization is understood as the mass movement of human population from rural to urban areas. The trend of urbanization is increasing at an unprecedented pace, especially in developing countries of the world. Now considered as an irreversible phenomenon, the imperative of urbanization necessitates a rethinking of how we imagine cities and rural areas of tomorrow to provide a meaningful and sustainable lifeworld. The challenges that come with such a dramatic shift are multifold and complex. It involves envisioning a way of life that is dignified, a society that is sustainable and equitable.
City planning is intimately connected not only with the issues of health and social justice, but fundamentally with creating social order by way of functional spaces and livable places, managing micro-structures with macro concerns of culture, nation, and civilization. The pro-urban development agenda seeks to attune city landscape with global growth-oriented models. However, in such discourses a significant neglect of rurality has been noted over the years, resulting in the underdevelopment of rural areas. The problematic binary of city/urban and rural often yields simplified accounts, which need to be countered with a complex and diverse view of rural category.
The relation of built environment with its inhabitants is a crucial dimension of urban and rural planning, where architecture plays an integral role in imagining and fashioning the changing spatial dimensions. The individual and community life, in turn, are inextricably shaped by architectural practices linked to the dynamics of mobility, placemaking, and lived experiences. In structuring spaces and places, architecture inevitably embodies understandings of what it means to be human, how spaces evoke emotions, and what inspires meanings and values that attach people to them. In being so, questions of aesthetics in architecture bear on ontology by shaping city and rural planning. However, with the decentering of human and critique of modernity, there is now a critical emphasis on rethinking the position of human and non-human in the planning of city/rural spaces. Over the past few decades, a range of perspectives have emerged in relation to spatial turn and place-based thinking. Such ideas have proved productive in rethinking as to how experience of space and place bear on the way human (and non-human forms of life) make their ‘dwelling’ meaningful. With this in view, the third Issue of Volume 7, LLIDS invites reflections on the following thematics:
- Megacities and communal spaces
- Narrative turn in urban planning
- Migration and settler experience
- Unplanned urbanization
- Urban slums and Anti-poor architecture
- Social fragmentation and planning
- Health and hygiene in city and rural spaces
- Designing Age-friendly cities
- Disparities in Urban and rural demography
- Vernacular architecture
- Ecocriticism and urban planning
- Counterurbanization in Postindustrial countries
- Phenomenology of architecture/space/place
- Architecture and Anthropocentricism
- Architecture in sci-fi, dystopian, and utopian literature
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Submission deadline: 15th July, 2025
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