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Urban Pamphleteer #11

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

22 Oct 2024

Monumental Graffiti: Tracing Public Art and Resistance in the City

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

01 Oct 2024

Disrupting the Speculative City: Property, Power and Community Resistance in London

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

24 Sep 2024

The promise of cross-subsidy: Why estate demolition cannot solve London’s housing emergency

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

23 Sep 2024

Architectures of Resistance: Negotiating Borders Through Spatial Practices

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.

21 Aug 2024

Urban Lab Activity Report 2021–2023

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.

17 Jun 2024

State of the Legacy: a decade of Olympic 'regeneration'

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

12 Dec 2022

Black Urbanisms podcast series

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.

01 Oct 2021

'At the frontiers of the urban' conference: compendium of papers

Compendium of papers presented at the UCL Urban Laboratory conference,

10 Sep 2021

LGBTQ+ spaces in Camden, 1986-present

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.

30 Apr 2020

Groundbreakers: Community Mapping Workshops on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park

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.

22 Apr 2020

London’s participation in UN Women’s Safer Cities and Safe Public Spaces Programme

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

06 Mar 2020

Re-Centring the City: Global Mutations of Socialist Modernity

How can we empirically understand the continued and powerful influence of centrality on the formerly socialist and late-capitalist cities of today?

29 Jan 2020

The Palace Complex: A Stalinist Skyscraper, Capitalist Warsaw, and a City Transfixed

Tracing the powerful impact of the Palace of Culture and Science on 21st century Warsaw

22 Mar 2019

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