invite: Prof. Edward Soja in Mumbai

The Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture and Environmental 
Studies, Mumbai would like to invite you to the 2006 Kamla Raheja 
Memorial Lecture by Professor Edward Soja, on 21st December 2006 at 
KRVIA, Mumbai, 6:30 PM

For more details, visit www.krvia.ac.in

The lecture is open to all. No entry charges.
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Edward Soja is Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning at UCLA, Los 
Angeles, and teaches Regional and International Development area and 
also urban political economy and planning theory. His research and 
writing over the past 20 years has focused on urban restructuring in Los 
Angeles and also the critical study of cities and regions and 
globalization. His studies of Los Angeles bring together traditional 
political economy approaches and recent trends in critical cultural 
studies. Of particular interest to him is the way issues of class, race, 
gender, and sexuality intersect with what he calls the spatiality of 
social life, and with the new cultural politics of difference and 
identity that this generates. His latest book brings these various 
research strands together in a comprehensive look at the geohistory of 
cities, from their earliest origins to the more recent development of 
what he calls the "postmetropolis". His policy interests are primarily 
involved with questions of regional development, planning and 
governance, and with the local effects of ethnic and cultural diversity 
in Los Angeles.