Commentary on ‘Habitability and Design: Radical interdependence and the remaking of cities’, by Arturo Escobar
Other text in scientific journal, 2019

This commentary reflects in critical friendly terms on Arturo Escobar's Geoforum Annual Lecture, ‘Habitability and Design: Radical interdependence and the remaking of cities', delivered at the 2018 Association of American Geographers' annual meeting, New Orleans. It provides an extended and elaborated version of my oral commentary during the conference session.

Design

Habitability

Sustainable development

Post-colonial/decolonial theory

Pluriverse

Urban sustainability

Author

David Simon

The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research (Mistra)

Royal Holloway University of London

Geoforum

0016-7185 (ISSN)

Vol. 101 218-221

Subject Categories (SSIF 2011)

Architectural Engineering

Architecture

Human Computer Interaction

DOI

10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.01.004

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