Events

Roundtable: Comparative Urbanism for Southeast Asia

Posted on | by Louise
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

Read more

A dog’s life: canine geographies of the city

Posted on | by Louise
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

Read more

London National Park City: a panel discussion

Posted on | by Corinna
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

Read more

Theorising urban studies on/from China/Asia

Posted on | 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

Read more

The post-covid city?

Posted on | 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

Read more

Glissant and Black Urbanism

Posted on | 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

Read more

Living Through Uncertain Times

Posted on | 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

Read more

Urban green space: reflections on ecological design

Posted on | 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

Read more

Urban green space: reflections on ecological design

Posted on | by Louise
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
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
Read more