Category Archives: urban/urbanisation

Five videos about urbanization in Africa

Posted on May 31, 2014 by stuartelden

All at the Urban Africa site – here’s the first one:

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Bradley Garrett receives conditional discharge – ‘a qualified victory for academic freedom’

Posted on May 22, 2014 by stuartelden

Bradley Garrett, whose work I’ve praised on this site before, was yesterday given a ‘conditional discharge’ in relation to charges of ‘conspiring to commit criminal damage’. I exchanged some emails with Brad yesterday so knew about it, but there were … Continue reading →

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Will Viney, Waste: A Philosophy of Things – forthcoming in July

Posted on May 22, 2014 by stuartelden

Will Viney, Waste: A Philosophy of Things – out now in July with Bloomsbury. 35% discount with code GLR D3D. Will kindly gave me a proof copy. It provides a very interesting approach to the topic, including an intriguing reading of King Lear, substantial discussion of … Continue reading →

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Tom Scott, The City-State in Europe, 1000-1600 – now in paperback

Posted on May 21, 2014 by stuartelden

Tom Scott, The City-State in Europe, 1000-1600: Hinterland, Territory, Region is now available in paperback. No detailed comparison of the city-state in medieval Europe has been undertaken over the last century. Research has concentrated on the role of city-states and … Continue reading →

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London’s development over time – short film

Posted on May 20, 2014 by stuartelden

This is interesting – a seven minute film showing London’s development over time. It relies on a rather-container model of what the city is today, and shows development within that bounded space, rather than wider networks, but it is nicely … Continue reading →

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Talking about Publishing, Urban Territory, and lots else

Posted on May 16, 2014 by stuartelden

I was involved in three events this week. The first was the most wide-ranging – a filmed conversation with Babette Babich at Fordham University, that ranged from contemporary territorial issues to Kant, Leibniz, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault and Lefebvre; Greek geography to … Continue reading →

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Cambridge city seminar – audio and video recordings

Posted on May 12, 2014 by stuartelden

This looks a valuable resource – audio and video recordings from the University of Cambridge city seminar. Thanks to dmfant for the link.

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Crisis-Scapes: Athens and Beyond – open access publication

Posted on May 5, 2014 by stuartelden

Crisis-Scapes: Athens and Beyond – a conference publication, which includes interventions by critical geographers, anthropologists and others interested in Athens’ crisis condition. This is available online under a CC license.  Four years and four days. The exact amount of time, that … Continue reading →

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Łukasz Stanek interviews Mario Gaviria about Henri Lefebvre’s Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment

Posted on May 5, 2014 by stuartelden

With Henri Lefebvre’s Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment about to be published, editor Łukasz Stanek interviews Mario Gaviria – who originally commissioned the book from Lefebvre. He also edited Lefebvre’s collection Du rural à l’urbain. You can watch the interview about Gaviria’s own “research, … Continue reading →

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Benjamin Fraser (ed.), Marxism and Urban Culture

Posted on May 5, 2014 by stuartelden

Interesting collection of essays on Marxism and Urban Culture, edited by Benjamin Fraser (author of Henri Lefebvre and the Spanish Urban Experience, and editor of the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, with a preface by Andy Merrifield. Thanks to Adam David Morton for the … Continue reading →

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