![]() In India, he realized that he was very different and largely British. In his own words, “I learned that I was everything I thought I was not.” I got the impression that, as a kid growing up in the small manufacturing town of Darwen, he “rebelled” against mainstream values of his own society in the UK that defined him. Despite being a socially powerful white man, he was culturally alien in India. One of the major breakthroughs in Tony’s intellectual life occurred at his encounter with India where he taught at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (1965-70). He did not even engage a particular interdisciplinary field, but created his own area of study: colonial urban development which was later extended to a global scale. Tony’s work does not fit within any conventional category of scholarship. Many of my colleagues (his students) including Abidin Kusno and Greig Chrysler shared a similar meeting point with him. Complementing each other, we met at a common point: the social production of space. I was an architect and urban planner, and advocate for social justice, interested in the social dimensions of buildings and cities. Tony (his preferred address) and I came from opposite directions: He was a sociologist and historian interested in the social production of buildings and the built environment. ![]()
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