At the Frontiers of the Urban Conference

At the frontiers of the urban: thinking concepts and practises globally was a UCL Urban Lab conference which was supported by the Making Africa Urban project. This international conference explored emerging themes and critical methodologies at the frontiers of urban theory and practice.This conference sought to stimulate new conceptualisations of the urban by convening cutting-edge scholarship and dialogue resonant with distinctive urban experiences, especially those beyond the conventional euro-american heartlands of urban studies, but with scope to reach across different contexts.

The conference aimed to better understand: how land, investment, finance, law and the state are reshaping urban spaces; or how processes of reproducing everyday life, identity politics, popular mobilization and contestation are remaking urban experiences; or how challenges of urbanisation, such as climate change, data, health, housing and poverty are redefining urban futures.

Follow the links below to access the conference programme, conference web listing and to watch the video of Plenary 1 (Urban Coordinates), introduced by Jennifer Robinson.