Category Archives: urban/urbanisation

Allen Scott – A World in Emergence

Posted on January 24, 2013 by stuartelden

Allen Scott’s book A World in Emergence: Cities and Regions in the 21st Century is now out. Beginning with the recent history of capitalism and urbanization and moving into a thorough and complex discussion of the modern city, this book … Continue reading →

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Kano attacks – one year on

Posted on January 20, 2013 by stuartelden

On the 20th January 2012, a series of attacks were launched by the Boko Haram group against the northern Nigerian city of Kano (the second biggest city in the country). A number of government buildings including passport offices and immigration centres, several police … Continue reading →

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Chris Harker on Thinking Urban Worlds

Posted on December 20, 2012 by stuartelden

At his Families and Cities blog, my colleague Chris Harker reflects on the Thinking Urban Worlds workshop from a couple of weeks back.

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BLDGBLOG recommends books of 2012

Posted on December 20, 2012 by stuartelden

As a balance to Crooked Timber’s fiction suggestions reblogged yesterday, BLDGBLOG has a number of suggestions for good books to read on mapping, architecture, landscape, urban planning and the like.

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Area E1 in the West Bank

Posted on December 14, 2012 by stuartelden

Since the UN vote on giving Palestine non-member observer status, Israel has retaliated in a range of ways. One of them is through suggesting that the moratorium on settlement building in the area known as E1, or East 1, is no … Continue reading →

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Thnking Urban Worlds workshop – recordings and reflections

Posted on December 13, 2012 by stuartelden

The recordings from the Thinking Urban Worlds workshop in Durham last week are now available – Andy Merrifield, Stuart Elden, Simon Marvin, with an introduction by Colin McFarlane and discussant comments by Gordon MacLeod. There are also written reflections from Colin and Rob … Continue reading →

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Andy Merrifield – The Politics of the Encounter

Posted on December 12, 2012 by stuartelden

University of Georgia Press have a page up for Andy Merrifield’s forthcoming book The Politics of the Encounter: Urban Theory and Protest under Planetary Urbanization. It’s part of their ever interesting Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation series.

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Measuring the world

Posted on December 12, 2012 by stuartelden

Phil Steinberg put me onto BldgBlog a while back, a great site on architecture, urban planning and the like. They have an interesting post up on measurement, the city of Manhattan, GPS and Ecuador, and the south pole.

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Andy Merrifield – ‘Whither Urban Studies?’

Posted on December 11, 2012 by stuartelden

Andy Merrifield has a substantial piece at the cities@manchester blog on the question of ‘Whither Urban Studies’. Some elements are close to the talk he gave at Durham last week at the Thinking Urban Worlds workshop (see here for notes on … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers – ‘Urban Theory: States of the Art’

Posted on December 9, 2012 by stuartelden

Urban — New Series, 6 Call for Papers — ‘Urban Theory: States of the Art’ There will never be good urban planning without a consistent urban theory. This controversial aphorism could serve to open the debate proposed by the journal … Continue reading →

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