Facilitating informal design interventions creates livelier public urban spaces

Richard Timmerman finds how customisation affects perception and use of public spaces

Revealing politics in Valparaiso’s regeneration

Rodrigo Caimanque explores how multiscalar governance is produced to understand urban changes in a Chilean case study

Reclaiming the ‘Leftover City’

Dr Christos Papastergiou asks whether leftover sites can act as a resource for urban life by hosting temporary or alternative uses.

Does Urban Design Make a Difference in Public Transport Planning?

Brian Garcia’s recently completed PhD research synthesises field work from Berlin, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles and Medellin to connect transport station context with ridership.

Jane Jacobs reloaded: developing a computational approach to urban vitality

Patrizia Sulis integrates data science and urbanism theory to measure urban qualities and life in cities

Hydropower is key to fight climate change

Pablo Carvajal assesses the challenges for hydropower to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Ecuador

Appraising Operational Failure in the Construction Industry

Diyana Razak asks what is the cost of failure at the post-operations stage?

It’s time to promote the use of shared bikes and cars

Weibo Li suggests tactics for making shared transport more popular, as a way to reduce car dependence in daily trips.

Rethinking national art collections as visualisations of identity

Sandro Debono shares insights on detecting, acknowledging and fostering liminality within national art collections.

Examining urban politics through the lens of flagship culture-led regeneration

Yixiang Sun investigates how city power relations in post-reform China have been transformed with a case study of flagship culture-led regeneration project.

Doctoral students from The Bartlett compete in Three Minute Theses

Doctoral students from The Bartlett presented their research topic during the Three Minute Theses (3MT) competition.

Workshops address doctoral mental health at the Bartlett

Creating space for conversations on mental health can help researchers through the PhD journey.

The Bartlett publishes new Doctoral Review to showcase PhD student research

The first ever Bartlett Doctoral Review has been published online, showcasing a diverse range of research from across the Bartlett Faculty.

PhD student at The Bartlett's IGP investigates ecosystem services and wellbeing in public spaces

Nikolett Puskás from the Insitute of Global Prosperity gives an account of ongoing fieldwork in Budapest around questions of wellbeing in public space.

Towards skater-led academia: The Bartlett hosts first international conference on skateboarding

Co-hosted by House of Vans and The Bartlett School of Architecture, the 'Pushing Boarders' conference took place in London on 1–3 June 2018.

Bartlett PhD student recounts Ghana field trip to study gender roles and language

Read Fanny Froehlich's account of her six months spent in Ghana, West Africa, conducting qualitative fieldwork for her PhD at The Bartlett's Development Planning Unit.

Bartlett PhD student’s film premieres at the Pompidou Centre in Paris

Killian Doherty’s collaborative film ‘Uppland’, made with director Edward Lawrenson, is about a Swedish ‘new-town’ in Northern Liberia.

School of Architecture students collaborate with the Royal Academy for Time | Making | Space event

This varied event explored the role of time in making space, with Carol Mavor giving an enchanting critical performance and architect-composer Duo revealing a new interdisciplinary architecture.

DPU PhD candidate successfully defends thesis on spatial change in Amman and Tel Aviv-Jaffa

Congratulations to Sigi Attender, who has successfully defended his thesis titled 'Urban Borderlands: Spatial change in Amman and Tel Aviv-Jaffa'.

Will the Machines be Building our Future?

Tehreem Husain considers what automation means for the UK construction industry.

Acumen share pioneering investment philosophy with Bartlett PhD students

Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management PhD Candidate Imad Ahmed reports on a talk from Mr Farrukh Kahn of Acumen.

Sensing Digitally Gets Us Closer to Reality

Sharon Richardson estimates the local active population from digitised interactions.

Open Day stimulates new questions

Duncan Grassie reflects on research motivations, at the recent UCL Graduate Open Day 

Making spaces meaningful through architectural storytelling

The Narrative/Making/Space team reports on their Bartlett doctoral curated event at the Royal Academy of Arts.

How different things work together to create different places

Jihyun Kim introduces an affordance-ANT framework to capture the fluid and heterogeneous aspect of urban public space.

Bartlett film-makers on top of the world

Ollie Palmer and Anna Ulrikke Andersen recently screened their doctoral work at the Arctic Moving Image and Film Festival 

Democratising Art through the ‘Museum Without Walls’

Dr Foteini Valeonti reports on USEUM, her crowd-sourced art platform that offers unprecedented access to art online.

Grappling with Chinese architectural modernity

Edward Denison reflects on the remarkable fruition of his doctoral research – in three books.