Events – Page 6 – The Urban Salon

Beyond incommensurability, methodological regionalism and the Global North/South divide: the challenges of thinking Naples as an ordinary city

Posted on 18 March 2015 | by Louise

Join Nick Dines for this presentation on an examination of Naples in relation to assumptions about the 'place' of postcoloniality and Eurocentrism in urban-theory debates.

Date and time
Thursday 5th March 2015
6-8 pm (GMT)

Location
Exhibition Room, G07 Pearson Building, Gower Street, University College London (see www.ucl.ac.uk/maps)

Book launch: Urban Revolution Now

Posted on 24 February 2015 | by Louise

To celebrate the new book, Urban Revolution Now: Henri Lefebvre in Urban Research and Architecture (Edited by Łukasz Stanek, Christian Schmid, and Ákos Moravánszky), join a panel discussion on the possibilities and challenges of applying Lefebvre's theory in international urban research and practice.

Date and time
Thursday 24 February 2015
6.30-8.30 pm (GMT)

Location
Room 108 and G07, Pearson Building, University College London, WC1E 6BT (www.ucl.ac.uk/maps)

Re-gentrification and Urban Core Revival of Tokyo: A Survey of Chuo Ward and Condominium Residents

Posted on 19 February 2015 | by Louise

Asato Saito (Yokohama National University) will be discussing re-gentrification in Chuo Ward in Tokyo in this paper. Comments will be by Antoine Paccoud (LSE).

Date and time
Thursday 19 February 2015
5-7 pm (GMT)

Location
Room EAS.E168, 1st Floor, East Building, LSE (See Maps and Directions)

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

Posted on 29 January 2015 | by Louise

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)

The challenge of comparative urbanism: what is lost in translation when looking at gentrifying neighbourhoods in Rome and Brooklyn, NYC

Posted on 19 January 2015 | by Louise

Join Sandra Annuziata for a discussion on the limits of comparative urbanism between Brooklyn, NYC and Rome.

Date and time
Monday 19th January 2015
6 pm (GMT)

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

Sustainable London? The Future of a Global City

Posted on 24 November 2014 | by Louise

How is London responding to social and economic crises, and to the challenges of sustaining its population, economy and global status?

Date and time
Monday 24 November

5.30pm-8pm (GMT)

Location
The Centre for Creative Collaboration, Kings Cross

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

Posted on 23 June 2014 | by Louise

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)

Debating High-rise Urbanism

Posted on 9 June 2014 | by Louise

Join a panel discussion of academics and practitioners on the challenges and opportunities in high-rise urbanism in London.

Date and time
Monday 9 June

6-8pm (BST)

Location
G07, Pearson Building, Gower Street, University College London, London WC1E 6BT (www.ucl.ac.uk/maps)

Urban comparativism: some reflections and challenges on how to actually do it

Posted on 3 June 2014 | by Louise

Join Sarah Gonzalez (Leeds University) for this presentation reflecting on the practice of comparative research.

Date and time
Tuesday 3 June 2014
6pm

Location
UCL Pearson Building, Exhibition Room G07, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT

Imaging Collapse: the Aesthetics of Economic Downfall

Posted on 3 June 2014 | by Louise

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)