Urban imaginaries illustrate how city residents engage with the past, present and future urban environment. Chana Lim explores five forms of urban agriculture in Bangkok to understand how these imageries influence ideas about creating a more livable city. Using a framework that integrates both material and immaterial aspects of urban imaginaries, she analyzes how urban agriculture contributes to reimagining the city and actively shaping it through practices, knowledge-sharing, networks, and values. Her findings highlight both compatibilities and tensions within urban agriculture networks’ visions of the future. Lim argues that urban planning and governance must recognize and address these dynamics to foster greater equality and justice in the city.
Date and time
Tuesday 28 January, 2025; 12:30 – 13:30
Place
Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern, Mittelstrasse 43, 3012 Bern, Seminar Room 216
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