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Imagining infrastructures

Posted on 6 March 2017 | by Louise

The modern usage of the term infrastructure has gone through a series of permutations from early emphasis on logistics, organization, and the expanding scope of technological networks to more recent interest in the intersections with landscape, ecology, and alternative theorisations of urban materiality. In this event we will explore questions relating to the meaning and conceptualisation of urban infrastructures.

Date and time
6 March 2017
6.00-7.30 p.m. (GMT)

Location
Centre Building Room CBG.1.06
London School of Economics and Political Science
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE

Vertical: The City from Satellites to Tunnels

Posted on 28 February 2017 | by Louise

Urban Salon hosts the book launch of Vertical: The City from Satellites to Tunnels (Verso, 2017), the new publication by Professor Stephen Graham (Newcastle University).

Date and time
28 February 2017
6.00-7.30 p.m.

Location
King’s College London, Strand Campus, Pyramid Room, King’s Building, London WC2R 2LS (View map)

#haters

Posted on 11 February 2017 | by Louise

In collaboration with the UCL Urban Laboratory, and hosted at the Bloomsbury Theatre Studio, we present a production of #haters, a spoken-word narrative-theatre play by Odd Eyes Theatre, looking at how "gentrification" in the name of urban regeneration is changing the cultural landscape of the UK.

Date and time
11 February 2017
5.00-7.00 p.m. (GMT)

Location
Bloomsbury Theatre Studio, 15 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AH

Timescapes of Urban Change: : London – Barcelona, a regeneration comparison

Posted on 29 November 2016 | by Louise

Focusing on two cities that are exemplars of their urban regeneration in recent years: Barcelona and London, this event will bring together urban professionals and academics to reflect, from a long-term perspective, on the role of time in the construction and experience of these two cities. By doing this, we hope to situate questions around temporality at the forefront of the research agenda on urban change.

Date and time
Tuesday 29 November 2016
6.30-8.15 PM (GMT)

Location
UCL Harrie Massey Lecture Theatre, 25 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AY

Cities in the BRICS: What are we comparing?

Posted on 11 November 2016 | by Louise

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

In Defense of Housing

Posted on 25 October 2016 | by Louise

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

Posted on 8 June 2016 | by Louise

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

Posted on 2 June 2016 | by Louise

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

Posted on 21 April 2016 | by Louise

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

Posted on 16 March 2016 | by Louise

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)