- Space and Narratives: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Reading Socio- Spatial Interplays in Rapidly Urbanizing Environments   2508 kb by    Krishnamurthy, Sukanya | krishnamurthy.sukanya@gmail.com    Short Outline One of the primary aims of this paper is to highlight the importance of creative research methodologies particularly in dynamic urban environments, the matrix encouraged the study to deal with observable patterns, various historicity’s, political, economic and social productions. Abstract The city is represented not just by its physical fabric, but also by collective representations of various characteristics that contribute to its making- memory, identity, forgetting, transformations, history etc. Understanding diverse representations and systems that exists in cities is critical both in planning and theorizing how urban spaces can be analyzed and studied. To approach various facets of socio-spatial interplays, this paper advocates the combining of structural theorists such as Choay, Lefebvre and Rossi to create an empirical matrix that bridges physical and social attributes of urban environments. The empirical matrix aims to study various phenomena such as evolution and identity of various spaces, memory associated space, place-making, attachment to name a few. Bangalore, like any of the many large urban centers (or mega regions) is living under the umbrella of economic and cultural changes that has now become synonymous with modern India. When the developed matrix was applied to the city of Bangalore, India it enabled the identification of sites that were meaningful locations that people made, inhabited, visited and participated inherently linked to the production of memory, identity and attachment. This paper highlights new approaches to identifying spaces of importance in rapidly urbanizing environments that are beneficial to long term urban renewal plans and, identifying and protecting spaces of local importance. One of the primary aims of this paper is to highlight the importance of creative research methodologies particularly in dynamic urban environments, the matrix encouraged the study to deal with observable patterns, various historicity’s, political, economic and social productions. The interdisciplinary approach of combining various theories, empirical data and qualitative methodology bought out nuances in an urban environment that is currently striving to find a balance between globalized and local expression of urban space. Keywords Case Study presented on the ISOCARP Congress 2013: Frontiers of Planning - Evolving and declining models of city planning practice   Click to open the full paper as pdf document   Click to send an email to the author(s) of this paper