Join the Urban Salon and Yan Yang and Philip Harrison on a seminar on the comparative work on cities in the BRICS.
Date and time
Friday 11 November 2016
2-4 PM (GMT)
Location
UCL Pearson Building, Room G07, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT
Events
In Defense of Housing
In this event marking the publication of their book In Defense of Housing, Peter Marcuse and David Madden explore the causes and consequences of the housing problem and detail the need for progressive alternatives
Date and time
25 October 2016
6.30-8 PM GMT
Location
PAR.2.03, Parish Building, London School of Economics, London WC2A 2AE
Book launch: Moth
Please join the Urban Salon in celebrating the launch of Matthew Gandy's latest book, Moth.
Date and time
8 June 2016
6.30-8 PM GMT
Location
Stoke Newington Bookshop, 159 Stoke Newington High St, London N16 0NY
Manufacturing Gesellschaft: Urbanized Nature and the Green Screen
This talk, by Hillary Angelo, offers a sociological account of urban greening: the normative practice of using nature to fix problems with urbanism.
Date and time
Thursday 2 June 2016
2.30-4 PM GMT
Location
G07, Pearson Building, UCL Department of Geography, London, WC1E 6BT
Theorising urban studies on/from China/Asia
This seminar is associated with the beginning of a new ESRC Urban Transformations funded comparative study of large scale urban development projects in London, Johannesburg and Shanghai - Governing the Future City.
Date and time
21 April 2016
5.30-7.30 PM GMT
Location
Room G07, UCL Pearson Building, London WC1E 6BT (See UCL Maps)
Planetary Gentrification
To celebrate the launch of a new book Planetary Gentrification (2016, Polity Press) by Loretta Lees, Hyun Bang Shin and Ernesto Lopez-Morales, join us on the evening of Wednesday 16 March for a special launch event at LSE.
Date and time
16 March 2016
5.30-8 PM GMT
Location
Room PAR.LG.03, Parish Building, LSE (see LSE Maps)
Differentiated Mobilities in Contested Cities: Towards Comparative Approaches
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
2 February 2016
1.30-6 PM GMT
Location
IAS Common Ground, South Wing, Wilkins Building, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT (see UCL Maps)
The Engineer and the Plumber: Mediating Mumbai’s conflicting infrastructural imaginaries
The Urban Salon is pleased to host a paper by Lisa Björkman on water infrastructure and hypothetical property rights in contemporary Mumbai.
Date and time
20 January 2016
6 PM
Location
UCL Pearson Building, Exhibition Room GO07, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT
Learning from China and Questioning China Exceptionalism: An interdisciplinary debate
The next Urban Salon seminar is going to take place at the LSE as a half-day workshop to provide a space for academics working in various disciplines to reflect on their own research and share their thoughts on how studying China has added value to each disciplinary understanding.
Date and time
Wednesday 20th May 2015
2.30-6 pm (GMT+1)
Location
Room 32L.LG.04, 32 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London School of Economics and Political Science (Maps and Directions)
An anatomy of resistance: the popular committees of the World Cup in Brazil
TThis talk will explore the formation, composition and political actions of the Comitês Populares da Copa (CPC), Popular Committees of the World Cup, that formed in twelve Brazilian cities in anticipation of the 2014 World Cup.
Date and time
Monday 23 March 2015
5-7 pm (GMT)
Location
Graham Wallace Room, 5th Floor, Old Building, LSE (See Maps and Directions)
