Category Archives: urban/urbanisation

Andy Merrifield, What We Talk About When We Talk About Cities (And Love)

Posted on April 27, 2018 by

Andy Merrifield, What We Talk About When We Talk About Cities (And Love) – out in June from OR books. In often dreamlike peregrinations around his home towns of Liverpool, London and New York Andy Merrifield reflects on what cities … Continue reading →

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Big Cities – Small Changes: Thinking Creatively Through Urban Infrastructure – British Academy, 20 Feb 2018

Posted on February 13, 2018 by

Big Cities – Small Changes: Thinking Creatively Through Urban Infrastructure Tuesday 20 February 2018, 9.00am – 4.30pm The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, SW1Y 5AH Full details available here – Big Cities – Small Changes 20 Feb (pdf) If you’d … Continue reading →

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My favourite academic books of 2017

Posted on December 20, 2017 by

  I don’t think I read as many new books this year as previous years, and the ‘to read’ piles get ever higher… But these are the academic books published in 2017 which I particularly liked: Update: the lists for … Continue reading →

Posted in Arlette Farge, Bruno Latour, Caren Kaplan, China Mieville, David Harvey, Ernst Kantorowicz, Eyal Weizman, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Neil Brenner, Politics, Setha Low, Sigmund Freud, Theory, Uncategorized, urban/urbanisation, William E Connolly, Writing | 3 Comments

The Right to the City: A Verso Report – free ebook

Posted on November 8, 2017 by

The Right to the City: A Verso Report – free ebook Special eBook collection on the most urgent question of our times: who is the city for? In 1968, the French Marxist philosopher Henri Lefebvre wrote “Le Droite a la Ville” … Continue reading →

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CFP: Urban Planning and the Spatial Ideas of Henri Lefebvre

Posted on October 31, 2017 by

Details of a theme issue devoted to Lefebvre’s work. Do check the journal’s open access policy and article processing charges (see also here). CFP: Urban Planning and the Spatial Ideas of Henri LefebvreEditor: Michael Leary-Owhin (London South Bank University, UK) Deadline … Continue reading →

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Shannon Mattern, Code and Clay, Data and Dirt: Five Thousand Years of Urban Media – now out with UMP

Posted on October 29, 2017 by

Shannon Mattern, Code and Clay, Data and Dirt: Five Thousand Years of Urban Media – now out with University of Minnesota Press. A breathtaking tour through thousands of years of urban life and its attendant technologies, rewriting the history of … Continue reading →

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Roger Keil, Suburban Planet: Making the World Urban from the Outside In – now out with Polity

Posted on October 29, 2017 by

Roger Keil, Suburban Planet: Making the World Urban from the Outside In – now out with Polity. The urban century manifests itself at the peripheries. While the massive growth in urbanization is often referred to as an ‘urban revolution’, most of the twenty-first century’s … Continue reading →

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Gordon Douglas, The Help-Yourself City: Legitimacy and Inequality in DIY Urbanism, forthcoming from OUP

Posted on October 23, 2017 by

Gordon Douglas, The Help-Yourself City: Legitimacy and Inequality in DIY Urbanism – forthcoming from OUP in early 2018. When cash-strapped local governments fail to provide adequate services, and planning policies prioritize economic development over community needs, how do concerned citizens … Continue reading →

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Building Ruptures, Architectural History Symposium and Exhibition, UCL 27 Oct 2017

Posted on October 18, 2017 by

Later this month I’ll be speaking at Building Ruptures, an Architectural History Symposium and Exhibition, at the Bartlett School of University College London, 27 October 2017. Please join the MA Architectural History 2016/17 cohort for Building Ruptures, a symposium, exhibition … Continue reading →

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Mustafa Dikeç, Urban Rage: The Revolt of the Excluded forthcoming with Yale University Press.

Posted on October 4, 2017 by

Mustafa Dikeç, Urban Rage: The Revolt of the Excluded forthcoming with Yale University Press. A timely and incisive examination of contemporary urban unrest that explains why riots will continue until citizens are equally treated and politically included In the past few … Continue reading →

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