Publications

Al Faruq, U. (in-review). From Cold War rationality to the smartness mandate? Political imaginaries of urban d/Development in Indonesia.

Al Faruq, U. (2025). Nusantara as Spectacular Fix: Urbanism, Power, and Exemplary Exception. Antipode, n/a(n/a), 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70039

Akhter, M., & Al Faruq, U. (2025). Authoritarian urbanism in Pakistan and Indonesia: A conjunctural comparison of two new cities. Urban Geography, 46(5), 1281–1302. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2024.2409560

Al Faruq, U. (2022). New Asian Capital: Spectacular Developmentalist Urbanisms in Action [Review of The Geopolitics of Spectacle: Space, Synecdoche, and the New Capitals of Asia by Natalie Koch; Cities for Profit: The Real Estate Turn in Asia’s Urban Politics by Gavin Shatkin; Predatory Urbanism: The Metabolism of Megaprojects in Asia by Agatino Rizzo and Anindita Mandal]. Antipode. https://antipodeonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Book-review_Al-Faruq-on-Koch-Rizzo-and-Mandal-and-Shatkin.pdf

Al Faruq, U. (2019). Intellectual labor and the capitalist production of nature: forest fires, documents, and socioecological fixes by experts in Indonesia [Master’s thesis, University of Oslo]. DUO Research Archive. http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-76541

Sagala, S., Alberdi, H. A., & Al Faruq, U. (2017). Increasing Energy Security through Institution Adaptive Capacity, Case Study: Palembang City, Indonesia. 旭硝子財団助成研究成果報告 Reports of Research Assisted by the Asahi Glass Foundation 2017, 1–14. http://id.ndl.go.jp/bib/028581855

Al Faruq, U., Rianawati, E., Sagala, S., & Currie, E. (2016). Resilience in Sumba Island: How Can Renewable Energy Contribute? Chapter 11 in “Masyarakat Tangguh Bencana: Membangun dan Menguatkan”. Bandung: Penerbit Halima & Pusat Penelitian Geoteknologi LIPI.

Al Faruq, U., Rianawati, E., Sagala, S., Currie, E., (2016). Assessment of Renewable Energy Impact to Community Resilience in Sumba Island. RDI Working Paper Series No. 9. https://www.preventionweb.net/publications/view/51505

Sagala, S. A., Adhitama, P., Sianturi, D. G., & Al Faruq, U. (2016). Mitigation Scenarios for Residential Fires in Densely Populated Urban Settlements in Sukahaji Village, Bandung City. Geoplanning: Journal of Geomatics and Planning, 3(2), 147. https://doi.org/10.14710/geoplanning.3.2.147-160