Introduction

Fragments of the City: Engaging the Urban through Its Neighborhoods

“…1 While these fragments "form the basis of one kind of urban identity" (King 2007:2), "the city" only exists in our minds (King 2007:2). Recently, Alkan and Maksudyan (2020) similarly stated that cities are "fragmented and fractured spatial entities" (p. 3). This can be illustrated through the case of colonial Bombay where the urban spatial order attempted to regulate and define "usage, function, and habitation" (Masselos 1991:33).…”