UCL Urban Laboratory

New Potsdamer Platz has been the flagship urban development project of post-Wall Berlin. Throughout the 1990s, Potsdamer Platz evolved from an abandoned no-man’s-land, delineated by the Berlin Wall, into Europe’s largest construction site and, finally, into the much-vaunted new centre of the once and future capital of reunified Germany. While the piecewise sale of Potsdamer Platz to international enterprises such as DaimlerChrysler and the Sony Corporation provoked controversial discussions in the early 1990s, the fact that several monuments and other relics from the conflictual history of Potsdamer Platz were part of the sales has hardly caught attention. 

Join us for the launch of Future Cities: Architecture and the Imagination (Reaktion, 2019) by Paul Dobraszczyk.

UCL Urban Laboratory hosts the 2019 Cities Imaginaries lecture with Sonjah Stanley Niaah, head of the Institute of Caribbean Studies at the University of the West Indies, on the evolution of dancehall performance within and beyond Kingston, Jamaica.

UCL Urban Laboratory and the Bloomsbury Theatre host a new drama by award-winning playwright Nicola Baldwin and director Cat Robey set in 1930’s East End London that considers the participation of women and young people in far-right politics.