This paper deals with multi-directional transactions between concepts and materialities in contemporary processes of urban renewal. Building upon insights gained from debates about the nature of materialities within urban geography, I treat buildings as complex associations of materials, technologies and human beings that are informed by concepts about social stratification and that simultaneously enact these concepts in the physical-social landscape of the city. Processes of urban renewal therefore need to be understood as both conceptual and material interventions in the setup of the city that restructure the built environment, patterns of cohabitation, experiences of the urban and notions of self and other. I illustrate this approach with recourse to the case of urban renewal in the city centre of Mumbai, arguing that high-rise buildings emerging from urban redevelopment projects translate the heterogeneity of the Indian middle classes into a spatial vocabulary that contributes to the creation of new social categories.

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建造类和想象建筑：孟买的城市更新和概念与物质之间的交易

本文涉及当代城市更新过程中概念和物质之间的多向交易。基于从城市地理学中物质性质的辩论中获得的见解，我将建筑视为材料、技术和人类的复杂关联，这些关联受社会分层概念的影响，同时在城市的物理社会景观中实施这些概念。城市。因此，城市更新过程需要被理解为对城市设置的概念性和物质性干预，重构建筑环境、同居模式、城市体验以及自我和他人的概念。我以孟买市中心的城市更新案例来说明这种方法，