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(re:)Thinking the Street – Urban Encounters Conference 2015

Tate Britain Clore Auditorium, Millbank, London, United Kingdom

Urban Encounters is pleased to announce its eighth annual conference focusing on street-based urban photographic practices. As part of a wider programme of events around London exploring critical ideas addressing how ‘the street’ might be experienced,…

£20 – £30

Research Impact and Parliament

Houses of Parliament Attlee Suite,Portcullis House, Houses of Parliament, Westminster, London, United Kingdom

Research is one type of evidence that can strengthen Parliament‘s important democratic functions - debating the issues of the day, creating and revising laws, and examining and critiquing the actions of government. However, we know little…

Free

The city as a commons

Unnamed Venue Bologna , Italy

THE CITY AS A COMMONS reconceiving urban space, common goods and city governance #cocities Inspired by the recently implemented Bologna Regulation on Collaboration for the Care and Regeneration of the Urban Commons, as well as by…

Disrupting Mobility Summit

Massachussetts Institute of Technology E14 - 674, Media Lab Building,75 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

Disrupting Mobility Summit A Global Summit Investigating Sustainable Futures Conference hosted by LSE Cities This high-level international conference investigates the role of rapidly changing transport technologies to enable more sustainable global futures. It will offer a…

550$

Bankside – Whatever happened to enterprise development?

15 Hatfields Chadwick Court, London, United Kingdom

Chair: Nicholas Falk Keynote Speaker: John Burton, Urban Space Management (Further speakers to be announced shortly) URBED’s roots lie in the relationship between small scale enterprise and the built environment. To this end we were involved…

Free

Get the most out of your data – A Workshop for Local Authorities

Kibble Suite, Hilton Glasgow Grosvenor Glasgow, United Kingdom

This workshop aims to increase local authorities’ understanding of how best to interrogate complex urban data to inform the development of effective programmes and policies. The workshop will explore: Why big data is important for urban…

Free

On Urban Failure – APL Annual Public 2015-16

With the dangers of risk society escalating by the day, cities find themselves especially vulnerable to the challenges of climate change, economic instability, ontological complexity, and social fracture. They face and suffer devastation, but also survive.…

Free

Festival of the Future City: Bristol Festival of Ideas

Watershed Bristol

Cities are the future, as the majority of the population move to live and work in them. Cities offer opportunities for local action, as well as partnership action with other cities coordinated through mayors and city…

Politicising the City

De Montfort University , United Kingdom

De Montfort University is pleased to announce a new Centre for Urban Research on Austerity.  The centre will be launched formally at a workshop on 18th and 19th November 2015, with a keynote lecture by Professor…

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Launch of the Centre for Urban Research on Austerity, De Montfort University

De Montfort University , United Kingdom

De Montfort University has established a new ‘Centre for Urban Research on Austerity’, which aims to develop networks and research projects focussing on Austerity in Urban contexts – including modalities of governance, forms of resistance and…

Free

Tips, Techniques and Tactics for Impactful Urban Research

St Hugh's College St Margaret's Road, Oxford, United Kingdom

We are holding the first Urban Transformations portfolio event on 23 November in Oxford. We will be beginning at around 12pm with refreshments before a short introduction from the Coordinator of the Urban Transformations portfolio, Michael…

Free

Urban Age Global Debates

LSE LSE Cities, 8th floor of Tower 2, St Clements Inn, London, United Kingdom

LSE Cities and Deutsche Bank’s Alfred Herrhausen Society, in association with Guardian Cities, is holding a series of public Global Debates to celebrate ten years of the Urban Age programme. The debates will discuss five core…

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Urban Mobilities in the Smart City – ‘Technical Efficiency, Social Deficiency?’

J Gottmann Room School of Geography and the Environment,, Oxford, United Kingdom

Professor Michael Batty, Bartlett Professor of Planning, University College London Professor Geoff Vigar, Professor of Urban Planning and Director of Research, Newcastle University Chair: Dr Jennie Middleton, TSU Senior Research Fellow in Mobilities and Human Geography…

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The Making of Global Urban Policy

Senate House Malet Street, London, United Kingdom

The Institute of Commonwealth Studies’ Emeka Anyaoku Visiting Chair, Professor Susan Parnell, will explore the origins and process of the new global policy commitments associated with the Sustainable Development Goals. She will reflect on what the…

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Big Data in the City: Exploring Notions of Design and Agency

Royal College of Art Studio 1, Kensington Gore, London, United Kingdom

Smart cities are increasingly under scrutiny for their top-down controlling and monitoring mechanisms, and are criticised for serving neoliberal agendas. This is a consequence of ‘smart’ systems using algorithms to help inform decision-making aimed at increasing…

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Inheriting the City: Advancing Understandings of Urban Heritage

March 31 – April 4, 2016, Taipei, Taiwan Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage, University of Birmingham, is pleased to announce our next international conference. We invite academics, policy makers and practitioners to consider the ways…

ESRC Strategic Network Data and Cities as Complex Adaptive Systems (DACAS) Launch Event: Cities as Complex Systems

Manchester School of Architecture, 4th Floor Lecture Theatre Chatham Building, Cavendish St,, Manchester, United Kingdom

Manchester School of Architecture, 4th Floor Lecture Theatre 2 February 2016, 18.00 - 19.30 Join a panel of world leading thinkers, policy makers and academics for an evening of debate and discussion on data, intelligence and…

Alan Turing Summit: Future Cities

Royal Institute of British Architects 66 Portland Place, London, United Kingdom

How can data science address the challenges and opportunities that accelerated urbanisation pose for our cities and the people who live in them? The Future Cities event is coordinated by The Bartlett, UCL’s Faculty of the…

Free

Urban Governance and its discontents

Unnamed Venue Oxford

The annual conference on “Urban Governance and its Discontents” will be held on 18-19 February 2016 at the University of Oxford. A cornerstone initiative of the Oxford Programme for the Future of Cities, the conference will…

Smart Cities & Communities: Shaping the Future

Manchester Conference Centre

At Smart Cities & Communities: Shaping the Future conference you will get the opportunity to hear from leading speakers from across the globe from both Barcelona (designated “Smartest City of the World” in 2015 by Juniper…

Inheriting the City: Advancing Understandings of Urban Heritage

Unnamed Venue Taipei, Taiwan

Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage, University of Birmingham, is hosting an international conference from March 31 - April 4 2016 in Taipei, Taiwan. Academics, policy makers and practitioners are invited to consider the ways that…

Workshop: Urban research – beyond disciplinarity

Delft University of Technology Delft, Netherlands

Many aspects of urban research are concerned with messy, complex or ‘wicked’ problems (i.e. problems which are difficult to manage or resolve because of a diversity of actors and interests involved, different perceptions of the problems,…

Community Buildings, Heating and Spaces: Drawing on Experiences

This is the fourth seminar in the ESRC-funded Seminar Series Neighbourhood Ways of Knowing and Working co-organised by the Universities of Bristol, Sheffield, Leeds, Newcastle and Oxford Brookes as well as the Department for Communities and…

Cities and Regions: Managing Growth and Change

Georgia Institute of Technology, Historic Academy of Medicine Atlanta, GA, United States

RSA 2nd North America Conference, Atlanta, USA In the wake of the global financial crisis, cities have searched for new policies and practices capable of addressing major shifts in socio-economic relations at the urban and regional…

The Sociology of Contemporary Urban Life

The Lakehouse, Heslington East campus / K/133, Kings Manor University of York, York, United Kingdom

Thursday 16 June The Lakehouse, Heslington East campus, University of York 10:30 Registration and Coffee 10:45-11:00 Welcome 11:00-12:00 Phil Hubbard (Kent) Hipsters on the High Street: Local Shopping Streets as the New Urban Frontier 12:00-13:00 Panel…

£10 – £40

Joint DACAS/ICTP-SAIFR Workshop on Modelling Urban Systems in São Paulo, Brazil

ICTP-South-American Institute for Fundamental Research R. Dr. Bento Teobaldo Ferraz 271, bloco IFT 01140-070, Sao Paolo, Brazil

20-24 June 2016, São Paulo, Brazil The aim of the ESRC Strategic Network: Data and Cities as Complex Adaptive Systems (DACAS) is to promote an interdisciplinary complexity science approach to the study of urban data and…

7th ESRC Research Methods Festival (5-7 July 2016)

Chancellors' Building, University of Bath Claverton Down, Bath, United Kingdom

National Centre for Research Methods is organising the 7th ESRC Research Methods Festival at the University of Bath. The draft programme is now available Booking open until 13th June! Book your place here. Festival themes International…

£70 – £95

Urban Marginality Researcher Links Workshop

Universidad La Salle Mexico City, Mexico

12 to 5 July 2016 Universidad La Salle, Mexico City, Mexico In Mexico City, as in many other large cities worldwide, contemporary modes of urban governance have overwhelmingly benefited affluent populations and widened social inequalities. Disinvestment…

Cities in Transformation: Processes, Problems and Policies

14-15 July 2016, St. Catharine's College, Cambridge There is little doubt that cities are navigating a turbulent and uncertain context, and face an unprecedented and intense set of economic, social and environmental challenges. There is mounting…

Summer School: Understanding Urban Transformations through Data

An ESRC Strategic Network: Data and Cities as Complex Adaptive Systems (DACAS) Organisers: Deljana Iossifova (University of Manchester), Ulysses Sengupta (Manchester Metropolitan University) Dates: 12 – 16 September 2016 Location: Manchester School of Architecture, University of…

Habitat III

Unnamed Venue Quito, Ecuador

Habitat III is the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development to take place in Quito, Ecuador, from 17 – 20 October 2016. In Resolution 66/207 and in line with the bi-decennial cycle (1976,…

Urban Life

Future of Cities Seminar Series, Michaelmas 2016 Wednesdays 16.30-18.00 - Hovenden Room, All Souls College, Oxford 19 October - The Border and the City: Spatialities of the European Crisis Dimitris Dalakoglou, Chair in Social Anthropology, VU University…

Designing Respect Exhibition

Museum of Tomorrow Praça Mauá 1, Centro, , Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

4th – 23rd October 2016 Venue: Museum of Tomorrow, Rio de Janeiro Theatrum Mundi, People’s Palace Projects and Museum of Tomorroware proud to present the 2016 edition of the global ideas competition Designing Politics, set this…

Free – R$10

Bridging European Urban Transformations

Boulevard de la Plaine 9, 1050 Etterbeek, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Brussels, Belgium

Workshop Series in Brussels 2016-2017: Funded by the ESRC (Un)Plugging Data in Smart City-Regions Co-organised in partnership by the University of Oxford – Urban Transformations and VUB – Brussels Centre for Urban Studies Date: 14th November 2016 Duration: 9:00-16:00 Venue: SMIT (www.smit.vub.ac.be)…

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.