Monthly Archives: May 2014

LSE Cities Sobia Kaker presented at (CRASSH), Cambridge University

28 May 2014

Sobia Kaker presented her research on the relational politics of enclavisation in Karachi at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH) at Cambridge University. The event was part of the 2013-2014 City Seminar series which introduced a range of interdisciplinary works examining the mobilising of cities. The theme aims to open discussions into assemblages of power in cities, and also address the suffusion and diffusion of knowledge in and about cities.

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LSE Cities’ Ricky Burdett to give lecture on London Olympics to Tokyo 2020 delegation

27 May 2014

On Thursday 29 May 2014 Ricky Burdett will give a lecture at LSE Cities about the London 2012 Olympics to a visiting delegation of people who are working on the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

LSE Cities’ Suzi Hall in conversation with Anna Minton Mon 2nd June 2014

On Monday 2nd June 7.00pm, LSE Cities’ Suzanne Hall will be in conversation with Anna Minton (author of Ground Control) at Sutton House, London.

For more information and to book tickets, click here.

LSE Cities’ Austin Zeiderman to give lecture at Humboldt University, Berlin

23 May 2014

On Monday 26 May Austin Zeiderman will give a lecture to the Department of Urban and Regional Sociology and the Georg Simmel Centre for Metropolitan Studies at Humboldt University, Berlin.

For more information visit the event page here.

LSE Cities’ Ricky Burdett to give lecture on ‘London and Barcelona: Two extraordinary post-Olympic legacies’, organised by the Area Metropolitana de Barcelona

22 May 2014

On 27 May 2014 Ricky Burdett will give a lecture on ‘London and Barcelona: Two extraordinary post-Olympic legacies’, organised by the Area Metropolitana de Barcelona followed by a keynote on 28 May. For more information visit the website here.

LSE Cities’ Philipp Rode writes for Guardian Cities

21 May 2014

The article ‘Want cheap energy bills? Move to a city’ published on 21 May in Guardian Cities, looks at new research which shows that the compact, taller buildings typical of inner-city areas are often the most heat-energy efficient.

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LSE Cities’ Ricky Burdett and Richard Sennett presented at The Decent City, The Social Science Research Council, Brooklyn, New York

20 May 2014

On 19 May 2014 LSE Cities’ Ricky Burdett presented at ‘The Decent City’, The Social Science Research Council, Brooklyn, New York in a discussion on Rio de Janeiro. Other panel members were Teresa Caldeira, University of California, Berkeley and José Castillo, arquitectura 911 and Harvard University.

Richard Sennett opened the conference examining the conference theme ‘What is a decency city?’ with Diane Davis, Harvard University and Ira Katznelson, Columbia University and the SSRC.

This conference aimed to probe a deceptively simple question: What is a decent city? Clear that such a city is not quiet, orderly or predictable, each of which is alien to robust urban life. In inviting considerations in a zone between more utopian reflections on the one side, and highly-focused instrumental policy considerations on the other, the conference aims to deploy a spatial imagination to interrogate design, toleration, and inequality as key concepts and sites as we search for thresholds of urban decency and means to achieve them.

LSE Cities’ Adam Greenfield featured in LSE research highlight

19 May 2014

Adam Greenfield, Senior Urban Fellow at LSE Cities discusses the growing public scepticism around claims that intelligent operating systems and data analytics are the key to our future.

Watch the interview and read the full feature here.

British Sociological Association Early Career Theory Symposium

14 May 2014

The British Sociological Association is hosting an Early Career Theory Symposium at the London School of Economics and Political Science on 6 June 2014. We have selected eleven papers for discussion within three sessions, with Professor Fran Tonkiss (London School of Economics and Political Science), Professor Claire Alexander (University of Manchester) and Professor Patrick Baert (University of Cambridge) providing comment on the papers.
We welcome up to ten additional early career scholars to join the forum for discussion. Lunch and tea are provided, and there is no entry cost.

To book your place, click here.