On uncertainty (one of our words from last week) and urban life -- a new piece in Public Culture:

http://publicculture.dukejournals.org/content/27/2_76/281.abstract

Uncertainty and Urban Life

doi: 10.1215/08992363-2841868 Public Culture 2015 Volume 27, Number 2 76: 281-304 

1. Austin Zeiderman,
2. Sobia Ahmad Kaker,
3. Jonathan Silver and
4. Astrid Wood

Abstract

This essay examines the influence of uncertainty on how contemporary cities are planned, built, governed, and inhabited. This influence is demonstrated through the analysis of various domains of urban planning and governance (disaster, security, energy, and transportation) across four cities of the global South (Bogotá, Karachi, Accra, and Johannesburg). In each city, uncertainty is produced by historical conditions and productive of future possibilities.