Urbanisation, Planning and Development
‘How stubborn “nail houses” take a stand against China’s rapid urbanisation’ is a new blog piece by Dr. Hyun Bang Shin of the UPD Cluster written for The Conversation in March 2017. ‘A single house balancing precariously in the middle of a construction site may seem like a doomed and fragile structure. But in China, these residences…
Art and the City: Worlding the Discussion through a Critical Artscape (Routledge, 2017) edited by UPD Fellow in Human Geography Julie Ren and Jason Luger is currently available for pre-order online and hard copies will be available in May. It is part of the series The Routledge Critical Studies in Urbanism and the City. Partial…
The School runs Partnership PhD Mobility Bursaries programmes that allow a small number of research students to visit overseas partner institutions as part of doctoral training and field research. In this blog, Do Young, a final year PhD student in the Department of Geography and Environment, spent visited the National University of Singapore for his doctoral…
Janetta Deppa (MSc UD, 2016-17) and Programme Director, Professor Sylvia Chant both had photographs exhibited at LSE’s 2016 Research Festival. Sylvia Chant’s photograph ‘Most Treasured Posessions’ was Highly Commended. Janetta’s photo, entitled ‘Sehitler Ölümsüzdür’ (translated: The Immortal Martyrs) of our Generation: Migrants Living on the Margin, was taken while conducting field work in Istanbul, in…
The Urbanisation, Planning and Development (UPD) Seminar Series, ‘Urban Crises’, for 2017 Lent Term begins on 11th January. These expert-led discussions are free and open to all. Confirmed topics and speakers for the series can be seen below. If you have any queries please contact Dr Romola Sanyal and Dr Austin Zeiderman. Unless otherwise noted, the seminars take place…
At this year’s AAG (American Association of Geographers) annual meeting, many members of the Cities Research Cluster are presenting their work and actively taking part as organisers, chairs, discussants and panelists. The annual meeting will take place between 29 March and 2 April 2016 in San Francisco, USA. You can find detailed information about sessions by clicking the links…
SAGE has just announced that to celebrate the 25th anniversary and the 50th issue of the journal Environment and Urbanization, all contents of the journal are given free access. This is for a limited period only until 9th December 2013. The following are articles by Cities@Geography staff, available during this period: Chant, S. (2013) ‘Cities…
Events Summary Planetary Urbanisation: Towards A New Epistemology of the Urban by Professor Ian Gordon The new series of Cities Space and Development seminars got off to a high- flying start, with Christian Schmid’s presentation on ‘planetary urbanisation’ and its epistemological challenges, which attracted an over-full house, and stimulated vigorous discussion. Christian’s talk drew both on a transdisciplinary background…
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