#SEMINARDS2019

Keynote Speaker: Eduardo Ascensão (IGOT, Universidade de Lisboa)

Synopsis: This presentation examines three models of urban improvement programs advocated by global development agencies such as the World Bank or UN Habitat, in the specific places of implementation in the city of Bissau in the past three decades. It focuses on the slum upgrade program PMBB-Plano de Melhoramentos dos Bairros de Bissau in the Cupilum neighbourhood; on a post-war house reconstruction project in Belém; and finally on a sites & services scheme developed at Antula Bono by a partnership between the Bissau City Council and UNDP (United Nations Development Program). I reflect on the links such programs have to broader urban and political histories and discuss the way localized improvement models – usually coming on the back of structural adjustment programs – shy away from universalist urban development and move the subjectivity of recipients from that of the citizen to that of the urban services customer.

Date: 21-03-2019

Hour: 18h-20h

Room: Amphitheater 1 (ISEG, Building Quelhas, nr.6, floor 4)

Free entrance!

Consult the full Program of SeminarsDS2019 here.