Events – Page 7 – The Urban Salon

De-centring global urban studies: learning from small cities in Africa

Posted on 21 November 2013 | by Louise

Mathieu Hilgers presents a paper on de-centring global urban studies by focusing on small cities on the African continent.

Date and time
Thursday 21 November

6pm (GMT)

Location

LSE Houghton St., Old Building RoomOLD.3.21

(Maps and Directions: http://www.lse.ac.uk/mapsAndDirections/findingYourWayAroundLSE.aspx)

Learning from International Urban Planning Practice

Posted on 17 October 2013 | by Louise

Join Rosanna Law for a presentation on the challenges faced by emerging Gulf nation states in modernizing their cities.

Date and time
Thurs 17 October 2013
6pm (GMT)

Location

UCL Gower St., Pearson Building Exhibition Room, G07

Smart Cities and Speculative Urbanisms

Posted on 21 May 2013 | by Louise

Join Jennifer Gabrys (Goldsmiths) and Nerea Calvillo (Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid) for a discussion of smart cities in speculative urbanism.

Date and time
Tuesday 21 May 2013
6pm (BST)

Location
UCL Geography

Transnational Soup: Translating Local Integration Policies Across Borders

Posted on 20 March 2013 | by Louise

Join Hannah Jones (Open University) and Ben Gidley (Oxford) who will be presenting on how European cities develop and innovate in policies for migrant integration, and how these policies might be researched transnationally.

Date and time
Wednesday 20 March 2013
6pm (GMT)

Location
UCL Geography (Exhibition Room, G07, the Pearson Building, Gower Street, see www.ucl.ac.uk/maps)

Materialities and urban politics

Posted on 15 January 2013 | by Louise

Join a session with two papers on materialities and urban politics.

Date and time
15 January 2013
6-8 pm (GMT)

Location
UCL Geography Exhibition Room, Pearson Building, Gower Street, WC1E 6BT (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/find-us/)

Urban cultural capital: a research agenda

Posted on 5 December 2012 | by Louise

Mike Savage (LSE) will be speaking on the potential in analysing the growing significance of urban cultural capital

Date and time
Wednesday 5th December 2012
6-8 pm (GMT)

Location
LSE Geography and Environment, Room OLD.3.21, Old Building (see http://www2.lse.ac.uk/mapsanddirections/findingyourwayaroundlse.aspx)

Creative City Limits: Urban Cultural Economy in a New Era of Austerity

Posted on 19 November 2012 | by Louise

eflecting on and developing ideas and discussions from a cross-disciplinary research network run last year, Andrew Harris and Louis Moreno will suggest and explore several ways that the creative city might begin to be challenged and reformulated.

Date and time
Monday 19th November 2012
5.30-7.30 pm (GMT)

Location
Room G07, Pearson Building, Gower Street, UCL.

Neoliberal gentrification in Santiago de Chile

Posted on 31 October 2012 | by Louise

In his paper, Ernesto López-Morales analyses several politico-economic aspects of the Chilean market of large-scale, high-rise urban renewal and its effects in terms of land economics and gentrification.

Date and time
Wednesday 31st October 2012
6pm (GMT)

Location
LSE Geography and Environment, Room STC.S221, St. Clement’s Building

The crisis in urban studies

Posted on 31 May 2012 | by Louise

Sue Parnell (University of Cape Town and UCL) joins the Urban Salon to set a way forward in the construction of an alternative practice of urban theorization based on the interrelated practices of revolution, reform and reconstruction.

Date and time
Thursday 31st May 2021
6 pm (BST)

Location
Pearson Lecture Theatre, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT

Landscapes of Postmodernity

Posted on 15 May 2012 | by Louise

Date and time
Tuesday 15 May 2012
1 pm (BST)

Location
UCL Geography Bedford Way BW113 (see www.ucl.ac.uk/locations/ucl-maps)