All Urban Lab Publications

This open-access book examines the emancipatory potential of knowledge co-production for more equal cities, drawing on experiences from Africa, Asia and Latin America. Published by UCL Press.

Book chapter by Professor Ben Campkin in 'Urban Nightlife and Contested Spaces: Cultural Encounters After Dusk' (Amsterdam University Press, 2025), part of the Cities and Cultures Series.

Explore everyday life in multi-storey social housing across London and Paris.

What graffiti says about contemporary society, and why it demands our urgent attention as a form of civic expression.

How a grassroots campaign defended social housing and public assets from redevelopment that would have raised rents and risked social cleansing.

Dr Joe Penny's report challenges the notion of London being in a

The contributors to this volume address spatial boundaries as places where social and political conditions are intensified and where new spatial practices of architectural resistance arise.

This report covers the activities of the UCL Urban Laboratory from 2021 to 2023 and marks the end of Professor Clare Melhuish’s directorship from 2018–2024.

Reviewing a decade of writing on the promises of London 2012.

This four-part podcast series from UCL Urban Laboratory explores what the term ‘Black Urbanisms’ can offer us as we think about cities and urban experience.

Compendium of papers presented at the UCL Urban Laboratory conference,

Commissioned by Camden Council and UCL Public Policy, this report highlights LGBTQ+ day-time and night-spaces in the borough, and documents findings from a roundtable held to discuss future support.

Report on a series of two participatory mapping workshops conducted to explore people’s relationship with the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, funded by the UCL East Engagement Seed Fund.

Scoping study featuring recommendations on how London can improve safety in public spaces for women and girls.