nikhil: 
	social ecology, the chicago school
		coming from several different sources
			(reading other's readings)
		the notion of communal succesion
		plant ecology metaphors
		economic geography
		
		redfield, migration of villages into mexico city
			 
	people immigrating gather microcities
	the 50s view of matunga
		attempting to universalise a narrative bypassing specifics
			
	constitution / identity within the city
	the "public sphere"	
		broken up by bourgeois urban modernity
		property / proprietary / amenity
		working classness and communal form

		chawls have internal designations of classes of space, for classes of people

	missionary practise (clifford mansard)
	social work and reform practise
	spatial reform, professionalising social work institutions
	research and practise

a new idea of class is emerging
	class != occupation 
	colonial distortion, caste distortion
		steve barnett on caste and class in madras, "vote banks"
			"competitive populism undermining institutions"
			
		social scientists as ethnographic objects
		"don't privilege their categories just because they grew into our categories"
		different senses of constitution
	work/residence separation
		(gendered imbalance)
	location hierarchy
	ritual space / spatial rituals

deadweight of the grand narrative histories to do with confrontations of cultural forces, colonialism / purity narratives
	larger global trends in internationalism
	city templates,
		(patterns of forts dictate where roads are built)
		classism helps dictate who goes into planning	
		power brokering . spatial brokering

	"i am neither a leftist or a rightist, i am only a typist"
	
cooperative movement, shared planning, re-imagining governance structures; these were all facets of popular nationalism, gandhian heritage
	forms of competitive philanthropy (like guilt foundations)
	shifts between spatial forms -> building framework for civic infrastructure which *later* becomes coopted by centralised, natioanlist forms
	"mediating symbolic forms" - uncertainty / dynamism / 'valence' ???
	land and trust
	land control regimes as a corporate-colonial instrument

	but the colonial courts eventually start ruling in favour of indian landholders over the improvement trusts looking to push forward suburban development
	
	"landfill" - new land comes without ownership constraints
	(building islands)
	
	many of the chawl schemes were part of the conscious development process	
"post foundationalist history"
"categeories of people and space, peoples ideas of themselves, and destaiblising them"