THE FUTURE OF SINGLE-FAMILY DETACHED HOUSING Journal of Urbanism http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/rjou Deadline: 1 June, 2012 What is the role of single-family detached housing in sustainable cities? Many are now predicting that single-family housing, especially at the periphery of major cities, is destined to become the future slum. But should we give up on single-family housing as …
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CfP: Rethinking Urban Inclusion: Spaces, Mobilisations, Interventions Coimbra Portugal 28.-30.06.12, Deadline: 04.02.12
Call for Papers (submission deadline 4 February 2012) Rethinking Urban Inclusion: Spaces, Mobilisations, Interventions to be held in Coimbra, Portugal, 28-30 June 2012 Conference held under the initiative “Cities Are Us” With almost half the world’s population living in cities, questioning the urban dimension of social inclusion and exclusion is imperative. Urban inclusion is increasingly …
CfP: Emerging Boundaries of Praxis – 9th AHRA Research Student Conference 19.-20.05.12 Aberdeen
Emerging Boundaries of Praxis 9th AHRA Research Student Conference. 19-20 May 2012. Aberdeen Scott Sutherland School of Architecture, Robert Gordon University With IDEAS Research Institute; Environment for People Call for papers New Urban Conditions are transforming the way we perceive urban issues and recognize new research strands. Shifting socio-economic and political conditions and the urban …
STUDY PROGRAM: Urban Studies MSc at University College London
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/urbanstudies Cities are now a critical focus for research, policy-making and public debate. More than half the global population now lives in cities and according to the United Nations this number is set to rise to three-quarters by the year 2050. The scale and complexity of these developments necessitate the development of innovative and interdisciplinary …
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SEMINAR: Dialogues in Development: African perspectives on urban development planning, 21.2.12, London
Dialogues in Development: African perspectives on urban development planning. A three part seminar series run by the Development Planning Unit, UCL. In the next decade two-thirds of Africa’s population growth will be urban. Although Africa has the lowest proportion of continental urbanization, with about 38% of its population living in urban areas, after Asia, it …
SEMINAR: Constructs of place: what makes cities tick? 20.02.12. London
Constructs of place: what makes cities tick? What shapes a city’s identity? Who defines it? Is New York about individualism or community? Is Jerusalem about religion, conflict or cafés? This session looks at cities as diverse as these, plus Hong Kong, Berlin and Tel Aviv & at their DNA, and how it changes through migration, …
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CONFERENCE: Second London Citizen Cyberscience Summit, 16.-18.02.12 London
On your marks! The London Citizen Cyberscience Summit in 2010 brought together for the first time volunteers and scientists from a wide range of Web-based science projects, ranging from volunteer computing (SETI@home, ClimatePrediction.net) to volunteer thinking (GalaxyZoo, Herbaria@home) to volunteer sensing (EpiCollect, NoiseTube) and much more. Historians, journalists, teachers and businessmen all brought their angle …
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Urban Migration Film Festival 15. Feb. 2012, UCL
Urban Migration Film Festival February 15th 09:30-17:00 Readers of this list may wish to sign up for the free UCL Urban Migration Film Festival, which will take place on Wednesday 15th February 09:30-17:00. We will explore questions regarding urban migration today through the prism of clips from seminal films of the past century. You are …
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CONFERENCE: Nationalism and the City 10.-11.02.12, University of Cambridge
Nationalism and the City Friday 10 February – Saturday 11 February 2012 Location: CRASSH, 7 West Road, University of Cambridge This conference is about the possibilities and interdictions of cities, the formation of political horizons, and the dynamics of identity. The object is to address an intersection: to consider histories and trajectories of nationalism as …
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SYMPOSIUM: Informal City: Design as Political Engagement Architectural Association Symposium, 09. February 2012, London
The AA has been very central to the evolution of ideas about the informal city and the formulation of strategies to deal with it. The AA Research Cluster on Urbanism and the Informal City seeks to give continuity to that work while focusing more specifically on architecture and urbanism as tools of political engagement in …