People
Director
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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. |
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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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 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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University-led urban regeneration; Modern Movement architectural heritage and social identity; domestic space and cultures; ethnography of architectural design practice |
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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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Global city politics; the use of STS methods in international relations and urbanism; the intersection between city networks, urbanisation and global governance |
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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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Large-scale architectural and urban spaces in cities worldwide; cities, film and mobility |
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Architecture, domesticity, the archaeology of the recent past, critical understandings of materiality and new technologies and the anthropology of sustainability and design |
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Ubiquitous computing. Specific topics include: crowd-sourcing and crowd-sensing, urban computing, location-based services, recommender systems, data mining for development |
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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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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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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
International Advisory Board
İpek Akpınar (Istanbul Technical University)
Karen Bakker (University of British Columbia)
Stephen Barber (Kingston University)
Neil Brenner (Harvard University)
Dominic Church (German Sustainable Building Council DGNB)
Mustafa Dikec (École d’urbanisme de Paris)
Michael Edwards (University College London)
Adrian Forty (University College London)
Susanne Frank (TU Dortmund University)
David Gissen (California College of the Arts)
Stephen Graham (Durham University)
Jane M. Jacobs (Yale-NUS College)
Gareth Jones (London School of Economics)
Roger Keil (York University, Toronto)
Jorge Francisco Liernur (Torcuato Di Tella University)
Patrick LeGales (Sciences Po Paris)
Julia Lossau (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Iain Low (University of Cape Town, African Centre for Cities)
Jeremy Melvin (Royal Academy)
Ayodeji Olukoju (Caleb University, Lagos)
Kate Orff (Columbia University)
Vyjayanthi Rao (Terreform Center for Advanced Urban Research)
Rebecca Ross (Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design)
AbdouMaliq Simone (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity)
Erik Swyngedouw (Manchester University)
Karen Till (National University of Ireland Maynooth)
Visiting Researchers
Current researchers
Past visiting researchers
Students
Current Urban Laboratory affiliated PhDs:
- Laura Marshall
- Alex Pavey
- ThienVinh Nguyen
- Claire Malaika Tunnacliffe
- Alexia Sawyer
- Killian Doherty
- Hiroaki Ohashi
- Alexandra Parsons
- Kristen Hartmann
- Sigi Atteneder
- Pooya Ghoddousi
- Sabina Andron
- Nicola Antaki
- Mohammed Bakkali
- John Bingham-Hall
- Jae-Sung Chon
- Carole Enahoro
- Charlotte Jones
- Leah Lovett
- Aaron Mo
- Braulio Morera
- Ana Maria Muñoz Boudet
- Giles Omezi
- Vicente Sandoval
- Myfanwy Taylor
- Saffron Woodcraft
Recently completed PhDs
- Dr Pei Sze Chow
- Dr Mohamad Hafeda
- Dr Sandra Jasper
- Dr Torsten Lange
- Lucrezia Lennert
- Dr Sameul Merrill
- Dr Louis Moreno
- Dr Regner Ramos
- Dr David Roberts
- Dr Ophelie Véron
- Dr Katy Beinart
- Dr Johan Andersson
- Dr Melanie Brickman Stynes
- Dr David Gissen
- Sophie Handler
- Dr Clare Herrick
- Dr Joseph Hillier
- Dr Karolina Kendall-Bush
- Dr Regan Koch
- Dr Leandro Minuchin
- Dr Brent Carnell
- Valerie Viehoff
- Dr Tse-Hui Teh
- Dr Astrid Wood
- Dr Stamatis Zografos