Ash Amin
1955
British geographer who proposes seeing the city as a system of infrastructures and habits, not a community of people.
Amin argues that much of what makes a city liveable is not the relationship between neighbours but the silent working of its systems: water from the tap, the bus that turns up, rubbish that disappears. When they fail, you discover how much of coexistence rested on them.
Hence his critique of policies that answer social fracture with community cohesion programmes while neglecting infrastructure. For Amin urban equality is decided first in the reliability of services and only then in acts of togetherness.
On Ash Amin in this archive
- Urban geopolitics
Amin Ash and Nigel Thrift Reimagining Cities
Amin and Thrift explore how cities should be reimagined in a globalized world. Cities are fluid and complex spaces…
Ash Amin 2 min read - Infrastructure
Ash Amin: Everyday Life and Infrastructure in Social Cohesion
Ash Amin explores how urban infrastructure and everyday interactions shape social cohesion and community well-being.
Ash Amin 2 min read
