Category Archives: urban/urbanisation

New Geographies 5 – The Mediterranean

Posted on March 4, 2013 by stuartelden

New Geographies, Vol 5, is out shortly. There is a launch event at the Graduate School of Design later this month. Most literature on the Mediterranean regarding architecture and urbanism has focused on the idea of the Mediterranean city and … Continue reading →

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Speculative Geographies

Posted on February 26, 2013 by stuartelden

This looks interesting – issue 2 of The State, on Speculative Geographies. Some pieces are available online, and you can buy the complete issue as a pdf for $5, but the material object looks interesting in itself, aside from the … Continue reading →

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Mark Purcell, The Down-Deep Delight of Democracy

Posted on February 24, 2013 by stuartelden

Mark Purcell’s new book, The Down-Deep Delight of Democracy, is now available to pre-order. It has very positive endorsements from Peter Marcuse and Susan Fainstein. The book uses Lefebvre, among others, to think about politics, the urban and democracy. Mark … Continue reading →

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Boko Haram, Shakespeare and Territory – talks at L.S.E. and Aberystwyth

Posted on February 18, 2013 by stuartelden

I’m giving three talks this coming week – at the London School of Economics and Aberystwyth University. At the L.S.E. I’ll be giving the first version on a paper under the working title of “Nigeria’s ‘War on Terror’: The Geopolitics … Continue reading →

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Cities in Conflict

Posted on February 16, 2013 by stuartelden

The news site openDemocracy.net has launched a special series on “Cities and Conflict” – thanks to Territorial Masquerades for the link.

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Boko Haram – An Annotated Bibliography

Posted on February 14, 2013 by stuartelden

  Update 27 March 2013 – an updated version of this bibliography is available here. This is an incomplete bibliography, but includes the pieces I’ve read while writing a piece on questions of territory in relation to Boko Haram (see … Continue reading →

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Conflict in Cities project

Posted on February 4, 2013 by stuartelden

I was down in Cambridge last week to examine a very good PhD thesis by Konstantin Kastrissianakis in the Department of Architecture. The PhD was part of the Conflict in Cities programme, and looked at public space in Beirut. While … Continue reading →

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AAG draft program available

Posted on February 2, 2013 by stuartelden

The draft program for the Association of American Geographers meeting in Los Angeles in early April is now available online. I’m speaking in a panel on Sloterdijk, a panel on the future of publishing, and giving a paper on ‘Urban … Continue reading →

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Paris 1900 in colour

Posted on January 29, 2013 by stuartelden

Some remarkable images of Paris in 1900, via Urban Cultural Studies.

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Israeli Settlement Bus Routes and other infographics

Posted on January 28, 2013 by stuartelden

At Territorial Masquerades, Teo Ballvé discusses this remarkable graphic of bus routes between West Jerusalem and Israeli West Bank settlements. I took the bus from Kiryat Arba on the outskirts of Hebron back to Jerusalem quite late one evening to the … Continue reading →

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