Bartlett Review 2018
Explore the 2018 edition of the Bartlett Review.
Short stories
An interview with Dr Edward Denison on a little-known period in Modernist history: 1930s Manchuria.
A study by Professor Alexi Marmot and colleagues reveals ways to combat unhealthy trends in office design and culture that keep people in their seats.
Dr Michael Walls, Senior Lecturer at The Bartlett Development Planning Unit, talks about the election monitoring mission he co-ordinated in Somaliland in November 2017.
Will energy majors ramp up production and revenues ahead of a meaningful global tax on carbon? Professor Paul Ekins doesn't think so.
Associate Professor Joanna Williams is using a new network to test how models of the resource-conscious city might work in practice.
Dr Zhifu Mi, Research Fellow at The Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management, says cities are a trade-off between economic development and climate change mitigation.
Professor Andrew Burns’ EPSRC-funded project to create a digital archive of traditional play culture aims to use the past to invent the future of urban play spaces.
Professor Jian Kang hopes to create a system for measuring soundscapes in terms of human wellbeing.
Long stories
You might not think skateboarding would be the subject of scholarly study, but a growing number of academics believe it has a lot to teach about how to make cities better for citizens
How do you create pathways to prosperity in an age of mass displacement?
Completed just months before the Carillion collapse, Castles in the Air?, Professor Hedley Smyth’s analysis of British main contractors, reads like a premonition.
The race is on to decarbonise the international shipping industry and the UCL Energy Institute's scenario-based modelling is giving policy-makers the data they need to put the pressure on.
The UK is on the verge of a major expansion in housebuilding, yet new research by the Place Alliance has revealed a chronic lack of urban design expertise in local authorities.
The wicked problems of the 21st century are too complex and systemic to be solved by one sector alone.
Faculty news
Professor Alan Penn, in his last letter as Dean of The Bartlett, says that the built environment professions’ primary responsibility must be to the public at large and to future generations.
A short history of The Bartlett Materialisation Grant.
Since its inception in 2005, the UCL Urban Lab's transdisciplinary approach has challenged the discourse on how we think about and intervene in the city.
A little over a year ago, The Bartlett announced its arrival in east London with a new building and four pioneering architecture courses. we paid a visit to see how students and staff are settling in.
Infographic: Dynamic state (pdf)
The Bartlett’s growth story is about bringing together people, technology and disciplines, creating the conditions for students to imagine the radically different futures society will need to solve the challenges of this century.
Essays
Mobility as a Service is ushering in the demise of car ownership and the rise of the new urban traveller.
Tackling unequal access to scientific culture means taking science communication out of its usual venues.
The case for rethinking capitalism
Western capitalism is in crisis and new approaches to economics and policy that challenge conventional thinking are needed to reform it.
What can the cities of tomorrow learn from the evolution of Venice with its millennia-long reputation for innovation and enduring stability?
PhDs supported by the service sector are opportunities to drive research and development in built environment organisations operating outside the physical sciences.
Why the capacity for rejuvenation is the lifeblood of the entrepreneurial state.
Creating the space for tomorrow's professionals means tearing down the barriers between disciplines and opening dialogue on the beliefs that guide our design processes.
Over the next 4 years, Knowledge in Action for Urban Equality aims to deliver transformative research & capacity for innovation in policy & planning in 12 cities across Latin America, Asia and Africa.