Postcolonial urbanism, in our path dependant governance, has successfully created cityscapes that segregate and delineate more than they integrate and assimilate. Social and political urban design has compartmentalised internal city spaces into ghettos for different communities, services, functions. This in turn heavily undermines access, rights, dignity of communities. During the current COVID-19 crisis, the fault line has been blatantly exposed where the urban design itself has jeopardised basic human security of a large number of labourers who make our cities in the first place. In this we will discuss some of these critical issues with Prof. Mohan to understand how postcolonial urbanism can be just and equitable, Tune in to find out! .
