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UCL Urban Laboratory
critical and creative urban thinking, teaching, research, practice
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UCL Urban Laboratory
exploring new methods of urban research across disciplinary boundaries
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UCL Urban Laboratory
critical, independent, rigorous and original scholarship on cities
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UCL Urban Laboratory
leading urban debate and the design and planning
of contemporary cities
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UCL Urban Laboratory
engaging with London and its communities
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UCL Urban Laboratory
developing international networks and
comparisons in urban research and action
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UCL Urban Laboratory
drawing on UCL’s heritage of pioneering
urbanism
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UCL Urban Laboratory
critical and creative urban thinking, teaching, research, practice
Events
Urban Lab+ London Symposium 2015
Start:
Sep 16, 2015 9:00:00 AM
End:
Sep 17, 2015 8:00:00 PM
UCL Urban Laboratory will host a major international symposium on global
approaches to urban higher education on 16 and 17 September 2015.
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Reactivating the Social Condenser: Architecture against Privation
Start:
May 18, 2015 10:00:00 AM
End:
May 18, 2015 7:00:00 PM
'In the habits and attitudes of the mass population,
low-voltage activity and a weak consciousness would be focused through
the circuits of these ‘social condensers’ into high-voltage catalysts of
change.' (Moisei Ginzburg, 1927)
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Stadtkolloquium 6th Annual Workshop
Start:
Mar 30, 2015 12:00:00 AM
End:
Mar 31, 2015 12:00:00 AM
Stadtkolloquium's 6th Annual Workshop will take place over Monday 30 - Tuesday 31 March 2015 at UCL.
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Situating Architecture: term 2 lecture series
Start:
Mar 28, 2015 1:00:00 PM
End:
Mar 28, 2015 2:00:00 PM
The Bartlett School of Architecture's new architectural history lecture programme, drawing on academics from the institution, continues during the second academic term of 2014/15.
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Nightwalking
Start:
Mar 26, 2015 6:15:00 PM
End:
Mar 26, 2015 7:30:00 PM
Part of The Nocturnal City series. Dr Matthew Beaumont (Co-director, UCL Urban Laboratory and Senior Lecturer, UCL English) discusses nightwalking in London in a public lecture complementing the release of his new book
Night Walking: A Nocturnal History of London (Verso, 2015)
, a captivating literary portrait of writers who explored the city at night, and the people they met.
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Writing across diverse urban contexts: Informality in Tallinn, Bafatá & Berlin
Start:
Mar 18, 2015 6:00:00 PM
End:
Mar 18, 2015 8:00:00 PM
Urban research has long related informality to a lack of state capacity
or a failure of formal institutions. This assumption not only lacks
attention to the heterogeneous logics and relations through which
informality is produced by multiple actors in- and outside of the state,
it has also created a dividing line between states. Whereas some states
are understood to manage urban development through a coherently
functioning state apparatus, others presumably fail to regulate. To
unmake and reframe such understandings this paper offers both a
theoretical discussion and an empirical exploration of the ways in which
informality is infused in processes of governance in cities across the
globe.
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Open Source Housing Crisis workshop
Start:
Mar 13, 2015 9:30:00 AM
End:
Mar 13, 2015 6:00:00 PM
Invited participants only.
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Regeneration: Imaginaries of Decline and Renewal
Start:
Mar 12, 2015 6:30:00 PM
End:
Mar 12, 2015 8:00:00 PM
In this talk Dr. Ben Campkin (Director, UCL Urban Laboratory) will consider how the
definition, discourse and practice of regeneration in London have shifted from the
1920s to the present. He will focus, in particular, on housing, with an example
from the 1920s, an historical evaluation of the architectural, political and cultural representation of the Aylesbury Estate, and a coda linked
to the Olympic-led redevelopment of East London. Using exemplars of particular types of urban image taken from related
contexts internationally, he will examine the wider imaginaries of social, material and spatial disorder encircling each
London site.
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Un-Learning from Lynch: Cinema and
Architecture in the Alley Behind the Marketplace
Start:
Mar 11, 2015 2:00:00 PM
End:
Mar 11, 2015 4:00:00 PM
Part of The Nocturnal City series. How might the work of the American film
director David Lynch speak to contemporary urban and architectural concerns?
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Beyond incommensurability, methodological regionalism and the Global North/South divide: the challenges of thinking Naples as an ordinary city
Start:
Mar 5, 2015 6:00:00 PM
End:
Mar 5, 2015 8:00:00 PM
For centuries
Naples has been been viewed by foreigners, Italians and Neapolitans
themselves to be something of an urban exception. Especially since
Italian Unification, the city has been persistently diagnosed as a
backward and undeveloped metropolis that lacks the accoutrements of
urban modernity and civility. The image of an aberrant city has not
always been seen in a negative light: Walter Benjamin and Asja Lacis,
for example, identified in Naples a primordial and ‘porous’ urbanism
that offered a seductive alternative to the northern European urban
life.
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