People
Director
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University-led urban regeneration; Modern Movement architectural heritage and social identity; domestic
space and cultures; ethnography of architectural design practice; curating the city. |
Past Directors
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Urban decline and 'regeneration' in London; housing, including early twentieth century slum clearances, and the representation and redevelopment of modernist mass housing; LGBTQI nightlife space; and the uses of images in urban change. |
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Cyborg urbanization; urban metabolism; cinematic landscapes; infrastructure; bio-diversity; epidemiology. |
Co-Directors
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Urbanization, public space and political activism in India; cities and climate change. |
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Night-time city; utopia in fiction writing; urban representations; thinking the city. |
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Urban development, contested urbanism, socio-spatial dialectics, design and urban transformations, and shelter and housing reconstruction in geographies of the global south. |
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Urban decline and 'regeneration' in London; housing, including early twentieth century slum clearances, and the representation and redevelopment of modernist mass housing; LGBTQI nightlife space; and the uses of images in urban change. |
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Urban and local governance; city leadership; engineering design; smart cities; sustainable urban environments; choreographing the city. |
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Art, space and the city; creative cities; gentrification; urban infrastructure; vertical urbanism. |
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South Africa, including studies of segregation and state power; the politics of urban development; comparative urbanism; city strategies and the circulation of urban policy. |
Centre Manager
Steering Committee
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Territorialisation of certain spaces as ethnic; community engagement in decision-making; and exploration of the creation of inequalities both within historical and contemporary debates about nationhood, colonialism, and postcolonial society in post-war Britain and North America |
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Sustainability of urban water systems, particularly social and policy factors as they relate to engineering; community engagement with engineering and infrastructure provision |
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Urban governance, policies and politics, European spatial planning, and urban sociology |
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Culture, materials and design |
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Design, architectural history & theory, urbanism, and cultural studies |
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Housing and squatter settlement upgrading; participatory approaches to research, planning and design; social movements and right to the city; urban regeneration and well-being; human development and the capability approach |
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Intellectual and cultural property, indigenous rights, new forms of cultural representation, the anthropology of art, critical museology and the South Pacific |
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Museology, cultural heritage, anthropology, reception studies, heritage management and public archaeology |
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Urban governance, participatory governance and planning through co-production; circulation and localisation of public policy; anti-poverty strategies; inclusive cities and the 'right to the city', sustainable cities, resilient cities; housing policy, slum upgrading practices, urban regeneration |
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Sustainable urban development processes and practices; Relational geographies of urban (and suburban) development and built form |
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Architecture and planning of Eastern European communism; social condensers; Warsaw and Moscow; curatorial and art practice methodologies |
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Contemporary Art & Architecture, Situated Practices, Critical Spatial Practice, Narrative Spaces, Urban Memory, Contested Space |
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Sculpture, performance, installation, public art, culture-led regeneration |
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Independent public art; street art and graffiti; visual culture; vernacular art; popular politics; public sphere; anthropology of art; material culture |
Artist in Residence
Tom Wolseley (2015/16)
Max Colson (2014/15)
Rab Harling (2013/14)
B.J. Nilsen (2012)
Carolyn Deby (2011/12)
International Advisory Board
- Professor Michele Acuto (University of Melbourne)
- Dr İpek Akpınar (Istanbul Technical University)
- Professor Karen Bakker (University of British Columbia)
- Professor Stephen Barber (Kingston University)
- Professor Neil Brenner (Harvard University)
- Professor Mustafa Dikec (École d’urbanisme de Paris)
- Dr Paul Dobraszczyk (Researcher and author)
- Mr Michael Edwards (University College London)
- Professor Adrian Forty (University College London)
- Professor Susanne Frank (TU Dortmund University)
- Professor Stephen Graham (Newcastle University)
- Professor Jane M. Jacobs (Yale-NUS College)
- Professor Roger Keil (York University, Toronto)
- Professor Patrick LeGales (Sciences Po Paris)
- Professor Jorge Francisco Liernur (Torcuato Di Tella University)
- Professor Julia Lossau (University of Bremen)
- Mr Jeremy Melvin (World Architecture Festival, Visiting Professor - University College London)
- Professor Ayodeji Olukoju (Caleb University, Lagos)
- Dr Vyjayanthi Venuturupalli Rao (Terreform Centre for Advanced Urban Research)
- Dr Rebecca Ross (Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design)
- Professor AbdouMaliq Simone (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity)
- Professor Erik Swyngedouw (Manchester University)
- Dr Karen Till (National University of Ireland Maynooth)
Visiting Researchers
Current researchers
Past visiting researchers
Students
Current Urban Laboratory affiliated PhDs:
- Sabina Andron
- Nicola Antaki
- Sigi Atteneder
- Mohammed Bakkali
- Jae-Sung Chon
- Killian Doherty
- Carole Enahoro
- Raffaella Fryer-Moreira
- Pooya Ghoddousi
- Kristen Hartmann
- Charlotte Jones
- Fani Kostourou
- Leah Lovett
- Laura Marshall
- Aaron Mo
- Braulio Morera
- Ana Maria Muñoz Boudet
- ThienVinh Nguyen
- Giles Omezi
- Enora Robin
- Vicente Sandoval
- Alexia Sawyer
- Justinien Tribillon
- Claire Malaika Tunnacliffe
- Adam Walls
- Saffron Woodcraft
Recently completed PhDs
- Dr Johan Andersson
- Dr Tom Bolton
- Dr Katy Beinart
- Dr John Bingham-Hall
- Dr Brent Carnell
- Dr Pei Sze Chow
- Dr David Gissen
- Dr Mohamad Hafeda
- Dr Sophie Handler
- Dr Clare Herrick
- Dr Joseph Hillier
- Dr Sandra Jasper
- Dr Karolina Kendall-Bush
- Dr Regan Koch
- Dr Torsten Lange
- Dr Lucrezia Lennert
- Dr Samuel Merrill
- Dr Leandro Minuchin
- Dr Louis Moreno
- Dr Hiroaki Ohashi
- Dr Alexandra Parsons
- Dr Alex Pavey
- Dr Regner Ramos
- Dr David Roberts
- Dr Melanie Brickman Stynes
- Dr Myfanwy Taylor
- Dr Tse-Hui Teh
- Dr
Ophelie Véron
- Dr Valerie Viehoff
- Dr Astrid Wood
- Dr Stamatis Zografos
