28 November 2013
Ricky Burdett was interviewed on BBC Radio 3’s Nightwaves on 27 November, on the topic of ‘Happy Cities’.
You can see further details and listen to the programme here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03j9ngr
26 November 2013
LSE Cities’ Jonathan Silver highlights the limited, compromised and hopelessly flawed carbon financing mechanisms that is heaping pressure on an African continent at the forefront of climate change. Read the full post here.
This is a cross post with the Situated Urban Political Ecology (SUPE) platform.
22 November 2013
You can read Theatrum Mundi’s latest blog post, ‘Rhythm-Studies’ by Laura Marcus, Professor of English Literature New College Oxford and Goldsmiths University of London here.
20 November 2013
UN-Habitat launches new publication ‘Streets as Public Spaces and Drivers of Urban Prosperity’.
This UN-Habitat’s publication, authored by Dr. Gora Mboup, makes a first attempt to integrate streets into the five dimensions of prosperity measured by the City Prosperity Index (CPI). These five dimensions – productivity, infrastructure development, environmental sustainability, quality of life, and equity/social inclusion – are all strongly linked to the quality of the street pattern.
On 15-16 November 2013 at ‘New Urban Formations: A Conference on Comparative Urbanization’, the Stanford Center at Peking University in Beijing, Austin Zeiderman gave two lectures. The conference was focused on putting Chinese urbanisation in comparative perspective and bringing insights from Latin America, Africa, South Asia, and Europe. Austin’s first talk looked at the history of Latin American urbanisation and contemporary challenges to urban governance in the region. The second was on land, dispossession, and urbanisation in Colombia.
18 November 2013
Joining the experimental university ‘Learning From Kilburn’ initiated by Tom Keeley from Space Makers, Suzanne Hall is running a two part exercise with local interest groups and individuals on understanding Kilburn’s street economy. The first week involved a lecture and discussion, and this week participants have a chance to report back on their own research findings.
For more information follow the link: http://learningfromkilburn.com/tagged/Classes
14 November 2013
You can read a review of our recent Urban Age conference in Rio da Janeiro: City Transformations, by Julia Michaels here:
http://riorealblog.com/2013/11/01/international-conference-affords-a-rich-exchange/
11 November 2013
You can now read reflections from ‘The Pandemic City: Governing Urban Health and Disease’ workshop, part of the LSE Cities Urban Uncertainty Workshop Series on
London, June 26, 2013: https://lsecities.net/media/objects/events/the-pandemic-city-governing-urban-health-and-disease
8 November 2013
Light is a material through which we organise social space; it is the infrastructure of everyday life, entering into the ways in which social life and interaction is staged and enacted in specific social worlds.
Configuring Light/ Staging the Social is a multidisciplinary research programme that forges an integral dialogue between social sciences, design, architecture and urban planning focused on light as one of the most fundamental features of social life. It is coordinated by Dr. Don Slater and Mona Sloane of the Department of Sociology in the London School of Economics and Political Science in collaboration with Dr. Joanne Entwistle of King’s College London.
The project has recently launched an international seminar series funded by the ESRC. The seminar series will begin in Spring 2014 and will develop a platform for practitioners and academics to cross boundaries between social sciences, humanities, architecture and technology and develop new concepts, methods and information to understand light as material culture. Confirmed speakers of the seminar series include professionals and academics from Qatar, New Zealand, USA, Denmark, Germany and the United Kingdom.
For more information, please visit https://lsecities.net/objects/research-projects/configuring-light-staging-the-social
LSE Cities Director Ricky Burdett has joined Carlo Ratti and Geoff Mulgan on the Bloomberg 2013-2014 Mayors Challenge selection committee.
The full selection committee is comprised of:
For full details, visit http://mayorschallenge.bloomberg.org/