Alternative Urbanisms: Beyond Utopian Visions of the 'Emerging' African City
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2023-06-21
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Lawanson, T.O
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University of Lagos Press and Bookshop Limited
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MY CAREER TRAJECTORY AND PHILOSOPHICAL INTIMATIONS
My initiation into the field of urban studies with a focus on propoor development was by Professor David Olanrewaju, who supervised my Bachelor's Dissertation titled: 'Informal Activities in the Survival of the Urban Poor'. While traversing the slums of Amukoko and Ajegunle in 1998, the question that intrigued me was: 'How do the Poor survive in the City? I, therefore, made it my business to attempt to comprehend the inscrutable survival tactics of the urban poor. The focus of my master's dissertation (The Urban Poor: A Comparative Analysis of their Survival Strategies in Southwestern Nigeria) and doctoral thesis (Assessment of Economic Activities of Home-Based Enterprises in Residential Areas of the Lagos Metropolis1 ), as well as output of subsequent scholarship, advocacy and activism attest to this. Twenty-five years later, the questions have to a large extent re~ained the same: How do everyday urban citizens cope wIth and/or respond to urban life? What can we learn from
their lived experiences? How can these be leveraged for sustainable urban development?
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Lawanson, T.O. (2023). Alternative Urbanisms: Beyond Utopian Visions of the 'Emerging' African City. An Inaugural Lecture Delivered at the University of Lagos, Akoka
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Lawanson, T.O. (2023). Alternative Urbanisms: Beyond Utopian Visions of the 'Emerging' African City. An Inaugural Lecture Delivered at the University of Lagos, 87.