Below is the full schedule of the forthcoming Cities, Space and Development seminar series in the Lent Term 2014. For any enquiries, please contact the seminar coordinator Dr Claire Mercer.


The Research Seminar in Cities, Space and Development 2013-14

Tuesdays 5-6.30pm East Building EAS.E168

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Download: Seminar Programme in PDF

All welcome.


Jan 14

New ‘objectivity’? Parties, Weberian demonology, and the political
Dr Murray Low, Department of Geography and Environment, LSE

Chair: Professor Ian Gordon

Jan 21

Home and inhabitation: a biography of the Aylesbury Estate
Dr Richard Baxter, Department of Geography, QMUL

Chair: Dr Claire Mercer

Jan 28

Belated mobilities: the here and there of transport planning in Mumbai
Dr Andrew Harris, Department of Geography, UCL

Chair: Dr Romola Sanyal

Feb 4

Grieving for Lost Homes: Territorial Stigmatisation, the Rent Gap, and Displacement
Dr Tom Slater, School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh

Chair: Dr Hyun Bang Shin

Feb 11

For the elections, we want women!’ Closing the gender gap in Zambian politics’
Dr Alice Evans, Department of Geography and Environment, LSE

The changing nature of green space in London: how growing populations and slowing resources affect decisions about urban green spaces
Meredith Whitten, PhD candidate, Department of Geography and Environment, LSE

Chair: Dr Claire Mercer

Feb 18

Producing ‘decent’ cities: gender and urban upgrading
Dr Paula Meth, Department of Town and Regional Planning, University of Sheffield

Chair: Dr Gareth A. Jones

Feb 25

On the trail of the policy: methodological considerations of relational comparative urbanism
Professor Kevin Ward, University of Manchester

Chair: Dr Ryan Centner

Mar 4

Housing as citizenship: notes on refugees and the urban poor
Dr Romola Sanyal, Department of Geography and Environment, LSE

Mar 11

Refugees in a space of agency: asserting citizenship despite control
Janna Miletzki, PhD candidate, Department of Geography and Environment, LSE

Toil, property and propriety: social and political dynamics of rural female labour relations in Tamil Nadu
Taneesha Mohan, PhD candidate, Department of Geography and Environment, LSE

Chair: Dr Murray Low

Mar 11

PhD Upgrade Seminar

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