Research

Cities, space and society

Metropolitan Melancholia

Cities, Space and Society

Metropolitan Melancholia maps a series of contemporary cityscape in terms that attempt to spatialise melancholy's feelings of loss, abjection and implacability.

Experiencing Density

Cities, Space and Society

Experiencing Density is a joint project between LSE Cities and LSE London exploring how residents experience life in different forms of high-density housing in London.

Incremental Infrastructure

Cities, Space and Society

Incremental Infrastructure is a research project to identify, design, and prototype sanitation interventions in the context of marginalised and peripheral communities in Delhi. It is funded by the Royal Commission of 1851.

Seed funded: Measuring community in an urban age

Cities, Space and Society

This LSE Cities’ seed fund project covers the initial phases of a planned multi-year empirical investigation into the social and material dimensions of community belonging.

Seed funded: The groundwork of airborne Africa

Cities, Space and Society

This LSE Cities’ seed fund project covers initial phases of a multi-year investigation into the impact of air transport growth in Africa on urban infrastructure.

Seed funded: What do digital technologies mean for African urban development?

Cities, Space and Society

This LSE Cities’ seed fund project covers a pilot study into the impact Uber has on transport provision, job creation and labour informalisation in Lagos and Nairobi.

Seen and Heard

Cities, Space and Society

Seen and Heard is a research and engagement project with Brent Youth Parliament and the Blueprint Collective commissioned by Brent London Borough of Culture.

Ordinary Streets

Cities, Space and Society

Ordinary Streets was an ethnographic and visual exploration of the spaces, economies and cultures of ‘street’, and engages with issues of immigration, adaptation and urban multiculture.

Theatrum Mundi

Cities, Space and Society

Theatrum Mundi is a professional network of urbanists and artists that offers a forum for cross-disciplinary discussion about practices relating to cultural and public space in the city. It is now an independent charity based at Somerset House.

Super-diverse Streets

Cities, Space and Society

The Super-diverse streets project was an ESRC-funded research exploration of the intersections between city streets, social diversity and economic adaptations in the context of accelerated migration.

Precarious Homes

Cities, Space and Society

Precarious Homes is an Urban Age research project examining current approaches to housing in Addis Ababa, Nairobi and Lagos and whether they are fostering or constraining the achievement of better and more just urban futures.

Urban Lightscapes/Social Nightscapes

Cities, Space and Society

Urban Lightscapes/Social Nightscapes was led by the Configuring Light / Staging the Social Programme and explored how social research could be better used to help designers understand the social spaces and users they are designing for.

Urban Age city survey (Mumbai)

Cities, Space and Society

This research extended two representative city surveys previously conducted in São Paulo and Istanbul to Mumbai. The surveys analysed how residents are responding to the challenges of social inclusion, the environment, transport, security and urban governance.

Next urban economy

Cities, Space and Society

In collaboration with the Brookings Institution, Washington D.C, this research project analysed new urban and metropolitan economies emerging after the 2008 financial crisis.

Urban intelligences, subjects and subjectivities

Cities, Space and Society

Urban intelligences, subjects and subjectivities, led by Senior Urban Fellow from 2013-2014 Adam Greenfield, sought to develop a richer account of the affective and experiential dimensions of everyday urban life in the presence of networked informatic systems.

The Mellon Fellowship: Urban Memoryscapes

Cities, Space and Society

The Urban Memoryscapes project, led by Mellon Research Fellow for 2014-2015 Naomi Roux, examined the means by which collective and public memory in inscribed and contested in urban space.

Measuring impact beyond financial return

Cities, Space and Society

This research project, which was funded by the European Investment Bank University Research Sponsorship programme (EIBURS), reviewed and developed theory, policy and practice on better assessments of wider outcomes from impact investment.

Cities, health and well-being

Cities, Space and Society

The 2011 Urban Age conference in Hong Kong provided a platform from which to continue the Centre's research and collaborations on urban health and well-being. Building on this, LSE Cities hosted a dedicated Lecture Series on "Cities, health and well-being" during 2012/13.

Access to the City

Cities, Space and Society

This research project looked at the linkages between accessibility, mobility and activity participation in the developing world.

European Metromonitor

Cities, Space and Society

The European Metromonitor project drew on LSE Cities' research on the economic resilience of European Cities in order to establish an interactive exchange platform for the dissemination of key findings and case studies relating to metro-level responses to the economic crisis.

The Mellon Fellowship: Metropolitan Melancholia

Cities, Space and Society

The Metropolitan Melancholia project, led by Mellon Research Fellow for 2015-2016 Ed Charlton, sought to map the contemporary cityscape in terms that spatialise the condition’s associated feelings of loss, abjection and implacability.

The Mellon Fellowship: New Citizens

Cities, Space and Society

The New Citizens project, led by Mellon Research Fellow for 2015-2016 Ninad Pandit, scrutinised the ways in which political and economic uncertainties of the postcolonial moment enabled the emergence of new violent forms of politics led by urban literary intellectuals in western India.

Cities, environment and climate change

Urban Mobility Transitions