Events – Page 2 – The Urban Salon

Theorising urban studies on/from China/Asia

Posted on 9 February 2021 | by Corinna

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?

Posted on 21 January 2021 | by Louise

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

Posted on 27 February 2020 | by Corinna

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

Living Through Uncertain Times

Posted on 19 February 2020 | by Corinna

Across the world, cities are facing crisis on multiple fronts, putting the conditions for everyday life under tremendous pressure. Urban inhabitants are forced to recon with abstract processes of change in part by establishing informal networks of care and social infrastructures of support. Exploring the emergence of such improvisatory practices, networks, collectives and gatherings, this seminar asks: How can critical urban scholarship develop more rigorous approaches to conceptualise, question and contribute to improving the conditions for urban life to flourish in times of uncertainty?

Date and time
Wednesday 19 February 2020
17.30 – 19.30

Location
Queen Mary University of London
2.22 Graduate Centre
Mile End Campus
London E1 4DH

Urban green space: reflections on ecological design

Posted on 18 February 2020 | by Corinna

In this panel event with some of Europe's leading experts on urban nature we explore some of the latest developments and challenges for enhancing urban nature in contemporary landscape design.

Date and time
18 February 2020
6 – 7.30 pm

Location
Bartlett School of Planning UCL
Room G01 – Central House
14 Upper Woburn Place
London, WC1H 0NN

Urban green space: reflections on ecological design

Posted on 18 February 2020 | by Louise

Date and time
Tuesday 18th February 2020
18.00-19.30

Location

Bartlett School of Planning UCL

Room G01 – Central House

14 Upper Woburn Place

London WC1H 0N

Butterflies, Moths, and Urban Bio-diversity

Posted on 30 June 2019 | by Corinna

Geographer, urban ecologist and Urban Salon member Prof Matthew Gandy will lead a walk through one of London's most interesting biodiversity hotspots, focusing in particular on butterflies, moths, and other insects.

Date and time
Sunday, 30 June 2019
11:00 – 12:00

Location
Abney Park
215 Stoke Newington High Street
London N16 0LH

Revisiting Displacement in Urban Studies

Posted on 18 February 2019 | by Corinna

The Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre, in collaboration with the Urban Salon, will be hosting a roundtable discussion on displacement, incorporating Southeast Asia and beyond. Displacement has been at the core of a number of critical studies that address problems associated with gentrification, infrastructure development, armed conflicts, and so on, which result in socio-spatial restructuring of existing inhabitants.

Date and time
Thursday 28 February 2019
17.00 – 20.00

Location
Room CLM.7.02, Clement House, 7th Floor
London School of Economics and Political Science
265 Strand
London WC2R 1DH
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Planetary Improvement: Cleantech Entrepreneurship and the Contradictions of Green Capitalism

Posted on 30 January 2019 | by Corinna

In his recent MIT Press book, 'Planetary Improvement: Cleantech Entrepreneurship and the Contradictions of Green Capitalism', author Jesse Goldstein explores the role that clean technologies, in particular those associated with renewable energy generation, play within mainstream environmentalism, and specifically calls for a Green New Deal. With a focus on strategies that he terms planetary improvement, the unfolding climate crisis is often framed as first and foremost an energy crisis, to be solved by the rapid deployment of renewable energy systems that will help “save the planet” without fundamentally altering prevailing patterns of sociotechnical life and material culture.

Date and time
Wednesday, 30 January 2019
18.00 – 20.00

Location
UCL Pearson Building
Room G07
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
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Why Detroit Matters: Decline, Renewal and Hope in a Divided City

Posted on 9 January 2019 | by Corinna

Detroit has come to symbolise deindustrialization and the challenges, and opportunities, it presents. As many cities struggle with urban decline, racial and ethnic tensions and the consequences of neoliberal governance and political fragmentation, Detroit’s relevance grows stronger. In this talk, Brian Doucet bridges academic and non-academic responses to this extreme example of a fractured and divided, post-industrial city.

Date and time
Wednesday 9 January 2019
16.00 – 18.00

Location
Graham Wallas Room, 5th Floor, Old Building
London School of Economics and Political Science
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE