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Creighton Connolly
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Relentless urbanization, paradoxes, and putting nature first.
Michele is out again, this time with Creighton Connolly, knee deep in Asian urbanism and nature. Creighton reflects on his scholarship, and personal journey, across East and Southeast Asia, thinking of the value of unpacking landscapes and the opportunities of thinking of ‘extended urbanisation’. We wonder around a carp pond and get stuck in an edge, thinking of questions of resilience and the place of nature amidst urban development. We think of temporalities and breaking binaries, against defeatist attitudes and in favour of a new urban political ecology. We take you from Penang to Hong Kong, and wonder with Creighton how participatory methods could evolve for a more effective urban scholarship that comes from the (South-)East.
Creighton Connolly is Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban Planning and Design at Hong Kong University. Prior to joining in 2023, Creighton held faculty positions at Lingnan University, Hong Kong, the University of Lincoln, UK, and at the Asia Research Institute, at the National University of Singapore. His current research spans a range of topics, including political ecologies of land reclamation, large-scale infrastructure projects, participatory governance and planning, heritage management, and the relationships between urbanisation and infectious disease.
If you liked our walk, you might want to follow up on Creighton’s work in Urban Studies in the Related Articles section below.
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