The Urban Salon is delighted to host the launch of Matthew Gandy's new book, Natura Urbana: Ecological Constellations in Urban Space (MIT, 2022).
Date and time
Tuesday 3rd May 2022
6-7.30 pm (British Summer Time)
Location
via Zoom
Events
Book launch: Defensible Space on the Move – Loretta Lees and Elanor Warwick
Please join us in our next event for the launch of the latest book in the RGS-IBG Book Series: Defensible Space on the Move, by Loretta Lees and Elanor Warwick.
Date and time
Tuesday 19th May 2022
7-9 pm (British Summer Time)
Location
Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), 1 Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2AR, United Kingdom
Roundtable: Living heritage and urban informalities: perspectives from Southeast Asian cities
The Urban Salon is delighted to host a roundtable discussion together with the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre (LSE SEAC) at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Bartlett Development Planning Unit at the UCL on community practice and heritage featuring the voices of researchers working on Southeast Asia.
Date and time
Monday 6th December 2021
12.30 – 2 pm (GMT); 7.30 – 9 pm (Bangkok)
Location
Online
Roundtable: Comparative Urbanism for Southeast Asia
The renewed and sustained interest of urban theorists in comparative methodologies has generated a wealth of comparative urban research over the past two decades. However, this scholarship remains dominated by research on African and European cities, with Southeast Asia cities not especially well represented.
Date and time
Tuesday 26th October 2021
12 pm (BST)
Location
Online
Informality and housing precarity: Urban perspectives across North-South
The Urban Salon is delighted to host a discussion together with the Center for Metropolitan Studies of the TU Berlin on of informality and housing precarity, on the occasion of the launch of a new book from Hanna Hilbrandt (University of Zurich).
Date and time
Wednesday 16th June 2021
5pm (BST)
Location
Online
A dog’s life: canine geographies of the city
Urban Salon (London) and the Urban Futures group, King's College, present a discussion of the place of dogs in the contemporary city, addressing questions of canine agency, the way this is harnessed as labour, and the forms of violence enacted against dogs as they are divided into categories such as the dangerous stray, the working animal and the domestic pet.
Date and time
Thursday, 29th April 2021
3-4.30 pm BST
Location
Online event
London National Park City: a panel discussion
Join us for a panel discussion on London becoming the word's first National Park City with Cara Clancy (University of Plymouth), Matthew Gandy (University of Cambridge), Daniel Raven-Ellison (Guerrilla Geographer and National Park City campaigner), Meredith Whitten (London School of Economics), and Judy Ling Wong (Black Environment Network and National Park City Foundation)
Date and time
Monday 15th March 2021
17.00 to 18.30
Location
Online event
Theorising urban studies on/from China/Asia
One of the major on-going debates and challenges in critical urban scholarship is related to the call for de-centring knowledge production, especially the emphasis on the need of ‘theorising’ from outside the Global North. What can we learn from this endeavour to re-assert the importance of southern cities, and are there any limitations in our existing practices? Does the focus on a select number of southern cities result in replicating the extant shortfalls of urban studies from the Global North?
Date and time
25 February 2021
2-3.30 PM GMT
Location
Online event
The post-covid city?
In this first Urban Salon since covid hit we consider the post-covid future of cities in London and beyond, critically evaluating Florida’s proclamation by zooming in on 3 themes – urban public space, tourism, and young people.
Date and time
Thursday 21st January 2021
17:00-18:30 (GMT)
Location
Online event
Glissant and Black Urbanism
The poems, essays and novels of the late Edouard Glissant rely on both a keen spatiality and a postcolonial sense of relationality. Glissant’s work is often difficult to decipher or contradictory, and engagement with his work in geography is still rare - albeit increasing in works tied to the study of Black Geographies and Black urbanism. I see many opportunities for urban geographers to engage with his thinking productively.
Date and time
Thursday 27 February 2020
17.00 – 18.30
Location
Centre Building Room CBG.1.06
London School of Economics and Political Science
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE
