Phillip Lühl: Urbanisation in Namibia. Foundational myths, colonial legacies, spatial transformation

October 5, 2022, 6:00 p.m. (CEST)

Time: October 5, 2022, 6:00 p.m. (CEST)
Venue: University of Stuttgart
Raum 8.06 (8. Stock)
Keplerstr.11
70174   Stuttgart
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Like other countries in Africa Namibia is urbanising rapidly in the absence of industrialisation and formal economic growth. This ongoing socio-spatial transformation is permeated with foundational myths of virgin land, colonial violence, spatial legacies of segregation and inequality, continued delegitimisation of the urban poor and their resistance through presence and resourcefulness.  
 
Phillip Lühl is a Senior Lecturer in Architecture and heads the Department of Architecture, Planning and Construction at the Namibia University of Science and Technology. His work revolves around housing, informal economies, spatial co-production and broader questions of socio-spatial transformation. 

Lecture in the framework of the project GO GLOCAL, a research cooperation between Windhoek (Namibia) and the Institute of Urban Planning and Design (SI) of the University of Stuttgart, funded by the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg.

[Picture: Guillermo Delgado]
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