Events

Book launch: The Fabric of Space: Water, Modernity, and the Urban Imagination

To celebrate the launch of Matthew Gandy's new book, The Fabric of Space: Water, Modernity, and the Urban Imagination (MIT Press, 2014), join us on the evening of Thursday 29 January for a special launch event in the Wilkins Haldane Room of UCL.

Date and time
Thursday 29 January 2015
6.30-9 pm (GMT)

Location
Wilkins Haldane Room, Gower Street, University College London, London WC1E 6BT (www.ucl.ac.uk/maps)

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South(Africa)-South(America): Segregation and Housing in São Paulo and Johannesburg

The final event of the Urban Salon year, 2-5pm on Monday 23 June, will be a South(Africa)-South(America) encounter, with a Johannesburg-São Paulo comparative exchange between Marie Huchzermeyer (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) and Eduardo Marques (University of São Paulo, Brazil).

Date and time
Monday 23rd June

2pm-5pm (GMT)

Location
Exhibition Room, PBG07, Pearson Building, Gower Street, UCL (see www.ucl.ac.uk/maps for directions)

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Imaging Collapse: the Aesthetics of Economic Downfall

Join Mireille Rodier (University of Michigan) for a paper drawing on her book project, Imaging Collapse: the Aesthetics of Economic Downfall, on Detroit and the ramifications of the ways in which extreme instances of urban blight and fiscal ill-being are portrayed.

Date and time
Tuesday 3rd June 2014

6pm (BST)

Location

UCL Pearson Building, Exhibition Room GO07, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT (see www.ucl.ac.uk/maps)

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