Category Archives: urban/urbanisation

Dallas Rogers on the Sydney Metropolitan Zoning Strategy

Some online pieces and links related to an article on Australian urban planning in Society and Space – with the article open access for one month.

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David Harvey and Andy Merrifield, London, 3 April 2014 – sold out

“Contradictions of capitalism and the new urban question” – David Harvey and Andy Merrifield in conversation, Birkbeck, London, 3 April 2014. More details here. Unfortunately the website now says that there are no tickets available.

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The Birth of Territory – audio recording of lecture at RMIT

The audio recording of my lecture on The Birth of Territory in February at RMIT is available here. I gave a version of the same talk at Monash University the day before but didn’t manage to record it. I say … Continue reading

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Books received (2 of 4)

Henry Reynolds, The Law of the Land (a gift from Jean Hillier – a good starting point for the issue of indigenous land rights in Australia, read on the plane home) Nikos Papastergiadis, Ambient Perspectives Nikos Papastergiadis, Cornelius Castoriadis – this and the … Continue reading

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Bradley Garrett interview on writing and publishing his book Explore Everything

Very interesting interview with Bradley Garrett on writing and publishing his book Explore Everything: Place-Hacking the City.

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URBAN QUESTIONS: Personal and Political Interrogations

Andy Merrifield discusses Castells’s The Urban Question and his own new book, The New Urban Question.

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Monash seminar on the City 2014

Announcing an exciting new series of seminars and discussions designed to share, stretch and challenge our thinking about cities and urbanisation!  It is the result of a genuine cross-Faculty initiative to stimulate discussion of all things urban.  The seminar takes … Continue reading

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Urban History Group Conference at Warwick – Urban Poverty: Wealth, Inequality and Experience 1600-2014

The 2014 Urban History Group Conference programme is now available on the Urban History Group website. This year’s conference, to be held on 27-28 March 2014 at Warwick, promises much and contains keynotes by Professor Mike Savage from LSE and Dr … Continue reading

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Urban Theory Lab at Harvard’s GSD – new website

Neil Brenner’s Urban Theory Lab at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design has a really good new website. Among other things there is “Introducing the Urban Theory Lab” – a kind of manifesto and mission statement; links to various projects and … Continue reading

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Eyal Weizman – The Architecture of Ariel Sharon

Eyal Weizman discusses Sharon’s architectural and spatial legacy at Al Jazeera. Whether in military uniform or in politics, Ariel Sharon’s time in power was characterised by construction and destruction frenzies that decisively shaped the physical realities in which both Israelis and … Continue reading

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