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Experimenting with Urban Living Labs (ULLs) beyond Smart City-Regions

Delegation of the Basque Country to the EU, 27, Rue des Deux Eglises. , Brussels, Brussels, Belgium

Bridging European Urban Transformations To register for this free event, please visit here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/experimenting-with-urban-living-labs-ulls-beyond-smart-city-regions-tickets-30193233775 Workshop Series in Brussels 2016-2017 Co-organised in partnership by the University of Oxford – Urban Transformations & VUB – Brussels Centre for Urban Studies Programme This one-day…

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The making of a permanent city for temporary residents

64 Banbury Road, Oxford, United Kingdom

This seminar, part of a series on 'Space and place' organised by Professor Elisabeth Hsu and Dr Carlos Vargas-Silva, is presented by Andreza de Souza Santos. Andreza is a Post-doctoral Research Associate within the Urban Transformations…

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Smart Cities & Communities: Achieving Smart Urban Growth

The Studio 51 Lever Street, Manchester, United Kingdom

At Smart Cities and Communities: Achieving Smart Urban Growth you will have the opportunity to learn how International city projects are using frontier technology to tackle some of the biggest problems and use existing resources smarter.

Metro Mayors: next steps for devolution in England

Royal Geographical Society 1 Kensington Gore, London, United Kingdom

Will metro mayors trigger wider public engagement and renewal by providing more accountable, transparent and inclusive local politics?

Urban Living Labs for public space – a new generation of planning?

KU Leuven, Faculty of Architecture Campus Sint-Lucas, Paleizenstraat 65-67 , Brussels, Belgium

While participatory planning is widely hailed as a prerequisite for well-managed urban development and sustainability, this ideal can be difficult to implement in practice, due to the complexity of interactions between stakeholders and the difficulty of…

140Euros

New London Vernacular/Urban Qualities

The Bartlet 22 Gordon Street, London , United Kingdom

Public Lecture and workshop Wednesday 26 April 2017 G12 - 22 Gordon Street One of the challenges of London's real-estate led urban development model is to build new urban places with good qualities within the current…

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Cities and the Political Imagination

Manchester Museum Oxford Road, Manchester, United Kingdom

The Sociological Review is pleased to announce that the 2017 Annual Lecture will be given by Rivke Jaffe, University of Amsterdam

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Oxford Spring School UK City Futures

Vincents Club 1A King Edwards St, Oxford, United Kingdom

The “cities agenda” in the UK has undergone major changes of late. The new government’s priorities for restructuring the British model of growth will foreground the roles of cities in shaping the UK’s economic future in…

Shaping Data Standards for Future Cities

Still Room, IET Glasgow Teacher Building 14 Saint Enoch Square, , Glasgow, United Kingdom

Friday 19th May 2017, 09:30 – 16:00 BST Still Room, IET Glasgow: Teacher Building, 14 Saint Enoch Square, Glasgow, G1 4DB The Urban Big Data Centre (UBDC) and SASNet, in collaboration with BSI, invite you to…

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The Great Regional Awakening: New Directions

Trinity College Dublin College Green, Dublin, Ireland

A ‘Great Regional Awakening’ is underway. There is a growing realisation that regional inequalities have both contributed to, and amplified, the ‘Great Recession’ that shook advanced and emerging economies alike. It is also becoming apparent that…

Beyond Smart & Data-Driven City-Regions? Rethinking Stakeholder-Helixes Strategies

Trinity College Dublin College Green, Dublin, Ireland

Smart City-Regions and Smart Specialisation Strategies (S3) are now driving significant policy development in city regions in Europe. However, the ‘smartness’ in these strategies is dominated by a technological hegemonic understanding of the city region. The…

Research workshop: the economic evolution of Birmingham

Birmingham city centre Birmingham

The City Evolutions research has selected five different cities for an in-depth exploration of the role of institutional arrangements and policy initiatives in dealing with economic change over the past 5 decades, including Birmingham. Economic change has…

Research workshop: the economic evolution of Bristol

Bristol city centre Bristol, United Kingdom

The City Evolutions research has selected five different cities for an in-depth exploration of the role of institutional arrangements and policy initiatives in dealing with economic change over the past 5 decades, including Bristol. The workshop…

Globalisation in Crisis? The Urban and Regional Challenges of the Great Instability

St Catherine's College Trumpington St, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

The Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society will be running its fourth conference, ‘Globalisation in Crisis? The Urban and Regional Challenges of the Great Instability’ on 13-14 July 2017. As well as being a chance…

£150 – £260

5th RC21-IJURR-FURS Summer School in Comparative Urban Studies

London & Leeds, United Kingdom

The Research Committee 21 (RC21) of the International Sociology Association, the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR), the Foundation for Urban and Regional Studies (FURS) in collaboration with scholars from University College London (UCL) and Leeds University invite applications for 25 places on our 5th Summer School.

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Urban transformation – roundtable discussion (RGS-IBG Annual Conference)

Royal Geographical Society 1 Kensington Gore, London, United Kingdom

This seminar is part of the 2017 RGS-IBG annual conference, running from 30 August to 1 September 2017, and will take place on 30 August. More information on the seminar is available here. A roundtable discussion…

Scaling Migration Through the European City-Regions

Co-organised in partnership by the University of Oxford – Urban Transformations (www.urbantransformations.ox.ac.uk) and VUB – Brussels Centre for Urban Studies (www.urbanstudies.brussels) To register at the event, please visit https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scaling-migration-through-european-city-regions-tickets-35661064203 Venue: Maison des Cultures et de la…

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European Week of Regions and Cities

Brussels

The European Week of Regions and Cities is hosting its annual series of events, workshops and knowledge sharing sessions in Brussels between 9 and 12 October. Bringing together a wide variety of policy makers, practitioners and…

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UT Panel at European Week of Regions and Cities

Urban Transformations (UT) have become increasingly interested in the institutional form that urban experimentation might take, the role of research in this process and how democratic and citizenship concerns may be balanced with policy and industrial…

Festival of the Future City

Bristol Bristol, United Kingdom

The second Festival of the Future City will take place 18-20 October 2017. Set over three days the festival – which aims to be the largest public debate about the future of cities – brings together politicians,…

Birmingham Policy Lab: Financing Local Public Services

University of Birmingham Birmingham, United Kingdom

The University of Birmingham and City-REDI is hosting a Birmingham Policy Lab workshop to explore the theme of the financing local public services. As demands on public services grow and austerity looks set to continue, the need to reform and look afresh at…

Research and Metropolitan Health in Unequal Cities

Rio de Janeiro , Brazil

Rio de Janeiro 22-24 Nov 2017 Key theme: urban health and wellbeing Sub-themes: Public health, city life, re-thinking urban wellbeing The full programme can be downloaded here. An edited volume of contributions, based on the presentations around…

Brutalist Architecture and Creative Activism

School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford University School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford, South Parks Road,, Oxford, United Kingdom

School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QY 23 January 2018, 16.00 - 17.30 Christoph Lindner is Professor and Dean of the College of Design at the University of Oregon and…

Cities in transition: unequal innovation in African cities

Cape Town, South Africa

Urban Transformations Workshop Cape Town, 31st January 2018 Download the full programme here. An edited volume of contributions, based on the presentations around the event, is forthcoming: for more information, please contact Andreza de Souza Santos at andreza.desouzasantos@compas.ox.ac.uk. …

Rethinking the Urban Commons in European City-Regions

Visit Brussels Koningsstraat 2-4 (Agora Room), Brussels 1000, Belgium

Bridging European Urban Transformations Workshop Series in Brussels 2016-2018 Co-organised in partnership by the University of Oxford – Urban Transformations  and  VUB – Brussels Centre for Urban Studies Monday 12 February 2018, 10:00-15:45, Visit Brussels, Zinneke Room, Koningsplein 10-11 Place Royale – 1000 Brussels, Belgium. To…

The Good City: Urban Transformation, Comparison and Value

University of Oxford

From 18-20 April, the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Urban Transformations (UT) network hosted an international conference in Oxford offering a gathering space for researchers focusing on issues of comparative urbanism across Global, European and…

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Cities and mental health: Interdisciplinary experiments

Lausanne , Switzerland

During the last 15 years, a flowering literature has investigated in different disciplines across the social and the life sciences the relations between urban living and mental health. One of the important research foci has been…

50 eyes on a scene

St. John’s College Auditorium St. Giles St.,, Oxford, United Kingdom

St John's College, Oxford, OX1 3JP Shannon Mattern from the New School (NYC) will be delivering an exciting talk, titled Fifty Eyes on a Scene. This talk replays a single urban scene from the perspective of…

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Creating Diverse Coalitions for Equality in Neoliberal Times : Locating the Emancipatory City

De Montfort University, Leicester, UK  , United Kingdom

Panel: Professor Chrissie Rogers (Bradford), Francis Ryan (The Guardian), Professor Kathleen Richardson (DMU) and Kitt Bolton (DPAC) – other speakers tba https://www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-bsa-events/creating-diverse-coalitions-for-equality-in-neoliberal-times-locating-the-emancipatory-city/ Call for Abstracts We are seeking abstracts for paper presentations that fit with the…

Urban Transformation and ‘New Style’ Urbanisation in China

University of Glasgow Glasgow, United Kingdom

9 - 12 July 2018, University of Glasgow The 2018 International Conference on Urban Development will bring together researchers from urban studies, geography, sociology, political science, urban planning, urban management and public policy as well as…

£60 – £150

City Futures and contemporary urban research

Beijing

Beijing 11-12 July 2018 This workshop will bring together senior researchers from the UK and China whose work focuses on thinking about city futures. The globe is increasingly urban. The future of China and the future…

New Horizons for Cities and Regions in a Changing World

Abstract submission deadline has been extended: 3rd September 2018 We are living through a period of profound change. Fundamental shifts occurring economically (increasing leadership in Asia, new opportunities in Africa, raising connectivity through global investment flows), demographically…

The Economic Implications of Brexit on European Regions

European Committee of the Regions 101, rue Belliard/Belliardstraat, Brussels,, Belgium

Brussels: 22nd February 2019, 09.30 – 17:00 (registration begins at 9h) City-REDI, supported by ESRC and The UK in a Changing EU, are hosting a Brexit Workshop at the European Committee of the Regions. The workshop…

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Security on the Move: Exhibition and Panel Discussion

The Arch, the African Centre 66 Great Suffolk Street, London

Summary/description Large scale migration and forced displacement are among the most dramatic consequences of war and political instability. In the research project ‘Security on the Move’, forty people who have been displaced to cities took pictures…

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EU Research and Innovation for Cities of the Future

European Parliament Brussels, Belgium

This joint event will show how EU funded Research and Innovation actions are driving Sustainable Urban Development to address major urban challenges. The event aims to: Inform Members of the European Parliament, City Leaders, policy makers,…

Urbanisation, Infrastructures and Everyday Life in East Asia

University of Manchester Barnes Wallis Buiding, Manchester

University of Manchester, 1-3 May 2019. The conference invites contributions concerned with the design, planning, implementation, maintenance and use of urban infrastructures (including, but not limited to, sanitation, transportation, health care and education); the social meanings…

Housing for asylum seekers and refugees in Europe

Chrystal Macmillan Building, The University of Edinburgh 15a George Square, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

How can new arrivals contribute to the revival and regeneration of urban areas, thus making them more inclusive, vibrant and accessible? A part of Refugee Festival Scotland, a team from the Governance and the Local Integration…

Urban Informality: An International Workshop

This workshop will seek to trace the possible relationships between dynamics of informality that cut across governance, work and ordinary life. It will explore relations between longstanding community practices of survival beyond (but without excluding) the…

An Evening with Jam and Justice

Ziferblat Edge Street 23 Edge Street Manchester M4 1HW 23 Edge Street, Manchester, United Kingdom

The Jam & Justice Action Research Collective are getting to ready to share findings and wider lessons, and celebrate the outcomes of our projects in Greater Manchester. Places are limited, so register now to reserve a…

Short-Term Lets: Evidence and Experiences from Scotland, Ireland and Australia

The Lighthouse 11 Mitchell Lane, Glasgow, United Kingdom

The rapid growth of the collaborative economy has connected individuals and communities via online platforms and enabled the sharing or provision of goods and services, assets and resources without the need for ownership. These developments have…

Creating a Movement for Change: Transforming Construction Network Plus

The Royal Society 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London, United Kingdom

The Transforming Construction Network Plus (N+) is hosting its 2019 Annual Conference, 'Creating a Movement for Change', on Thursday 19 September at the Royal Society in London. This one-day conference seeks to stimulate new perspectives, new ideas…

Making Cities Work

Brussels , Belgium

Cities of Making has partnered with Cosmopolis and Building Brussels to host ‘Making Cities Work’, a series of events, from 6-11 September 2019, aimed at contributing to new ways of thinking about the urban economy. How…

2019 Realising Just Cities Conference: Lessons, Impacts and Outcomes

Cutlers Hall Church Street, Sheffield, United Kingdom

The rapidly growing number of people moving into cities all over the world presents a challenge of unprecedented size. It is crucial to find ways to make urbanisation a source for wealth, health and sustainability –…

The Northern Housing Summit 2019

Renaissance Manchester City Centre Hotel Blackfriars Street, Manchester, United Kingdom

This year the Northern Housing Consortium launched #OurNorth, a celebration of the role local authorities and housing associations play in creating the communities in which 15 million people live. But #OurNorth is not just about highlighting…

The politics of memory: Urban cultural heritage in Brazil

Latin American Centre St Anthony's College, 2 Church Walk, Oxford

Book launch: The Politics of Memory in Brazil Venue: Latin American Centre Author: Andreza de Souza Santos in conversation with Sandra Jovchelovitch (LSE) and Katerina Chatzikidi (Graduate Institute Geneva) Chair: Elizabeth Ewart, Head of School of…

Borderland Urbanism: Infrastructure for Fragmented Cities

ETH Zurich UNO B 11, Universitätstrasse 41  , Zurich, Switzerland

Urban transformations in many countries of the Global South produce fragmented cities. These are characterised by the coexistence of fortified enclaves on the one hand, and informal settlements on the other. Everyday life is often radically…

Wales Housing Research Conference 2020

Glamorgan Building, Cardiff University King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Co-hosted by the WISERD Wales Housing Research Network, the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence, Shelter Cymru and Welsh Government. This conference is sponsored by Pobl. About the conference Housing and homelessness are high on the…

ISULabaNtu end of project event

University of Westminster First Floor (Board Room), 309 Regent Street, London

The ISULabaNtu project is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (UK) and the National Research Foundation (South Africa) under the Newton Fund Urban Transformations Programme. The project explores community-led upgrading processes in environmental management…

Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN)

Brighton

The Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) Third Biennial Conference will be held in Brighton, United Kingdom on 24-26 June 2020 on the theme of Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, Prefiguration. Submission deadline: All proposals must be submitted via online…