The inclusion of Jalandhar into India's 100 Smart City Mission marks a crucial moment in the city's imagination of reconciling its history of emigration with a new identity as sports and healthy city. In this storymap, we present the lessons from Jalandhar through the themes of imagining, governing, and living urban futures.
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Read MoreResearch Assistant, Varun Patil continues his commentary with a part 2 on searching for the ‘Smart city’ in Jalandhar. In this post, he explores the ongoing work of the smart city interventions which aim to reduce congestion and improve traffic.
Read MoreProject PI Ayona Datta introduces Sudama Bazaar in Jalandhar through the transnational connections that make smart city proposals irrelevant for both older and younger generation of traders. While the ‘Smart Chowk’ proposals create a disillusionment of the future, smart citizens are seen as those who are able to emigrate to the West to access better opportunities and hope for the future.
Read MoreIn this blog post, Post-doctoral Research Associate, Srilata, shares about her archival adventures in Jalandhar. She talks about how we must embrace the rich lived experiences and politics of place as well as trace continuities between the past, present and future in order to justly write about the city with integrity rather than, in her words, “through a vacuous notion of ‘smartness’ “.
Read MoreIn this piece, Research Assistant, Varun Patil, delves into the beauty of the 63-Acre Burlton Park and introduces the proposed plans for the erection of a Smart Sports Hub. This post celebrates the compendious array of the activities and time spent at Burlton Park by the locals of Jalandhar and touches on the sentiments of supporters and critics on building the said Sports Hub.
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