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Mar 23

TS Eliot’s The Waste Land in the Anthropocene

Pushpa Arabindoo, Miranda Miller and Pavan Manogaran reflect on an Urban Lab roundtable held in December 2022, re-reading this embodiment of poetic modernism in the present as a foreshadowing of the Anthropocene. 2022 was the centenary anniversary of not only TS Eliot’s poem The Waste Land, an ur-modern poem that…

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TS Eliot’s The Waste Land in the Anthropocene
TS Eliot’s The Waste Land in the Anthropocene

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Oct 12, 2022

CLIMATE CRISIS | James Ephraim Lovelock (1919–2022): on cities as world-changing powers

by Guy Mannes-Abbott, PhD candidate based at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London James Lovelock died at his home overlooking Dorset’s Chesil Beach on July 26th of this year. It was his 103rd birthday. From the vantage of 2022, it’s clear that the core ideas of Lovelock’s Gaia…

James Lovelock

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CLIMATE CRISIS | James Ephraim Lovelock (1919–2022): on cities as world-changing powers
CLIMATE CRISIS | James Ephraim Lovelock (1919–2022): on cities as world-changing powers
James Lovelock

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Oct 11, 2022

Lessons from London’s ‘Olympic Regeneration’ and beyond: comments on the State of the Legacy conference from a Global South perspective

by Eduardo Nobre, Associate Professor in the School of Architecture and Urbanism, University of São Paulo, Brazil. The rationale for organising urban sporting mega-events has been defended by international urban planning consultants as a way for cities to promote urban regeneration, achieving economic and spatial development in the ‘highly competitive…

Olympics

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Lessons from London’s ‘Olympic Regeneration’ and beyond: comments on the State of the Legacy…
Lessons from London’s ‘Olympic Regeneration’ and beyond: comments on the State of the Legacy…
Olympics

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Sep 21, 2022

CLIMATE CRISIS | Monitoring urban sustainability in Berlin and London: reconsidering the role of data and indicators

By Florian Koch, Professor for smart cities and urban development at HTW Berlin, University of Applied Sciences; Visiting Researcher, UCL Urban Laboratory, May — August 2022 “Data is the new oil”. This famous quote by British mathematician and entrepreneur Clive Humby from 2006 sounds nowadays almost absurd, as we are…

Urbanism

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CLIMATE CRISIS | Monitoring urban sustainability in Berlin and London: reconsidering the role of…
CLIMATE CRISIS | Monitoring urban sustainability in Berlin and London: reconsidering the role of…
Urbanism

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Jul 11, 2022

Lebanese Yawmiyat (diaries): Archiving unfinished stories of spatial violence

Hanadi Samhan and Camillo Boano Over the past three years multiple simultaneous and interconnected crises have unfolded in Lebanon. This ‘polycrisis’ manifests in the country’s entrenched socio-political dysfunctionality and more evidently in the everyday life of Lebanese citizens/denizens. Alienating and troubling, living in Lebanon, and particularly in the capital Beirut…

Lebanon

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Lebanese Yawmiyat (diaries): Archiving unfinished stories of spatial violence
Lebanese Yawmiyat (diaries): Archiving unfinished stories of spatial violence
Lebanon

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May 27, 2022

Urban Lab Walk: Hackney — Aftermath of Regeneration

During the Spring of 2022 UCL Urban Lab curated a series of walks across East London, as a means of exploring London once more following the Covid-19 ‘lockdowns’ which had enforced the cancellation of so many in-person events, and linked to its annual theme Emergency. One of these walks, through…

Urbanism

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Urban Lab Walk: Hackney — Aftermath of Regeneration
Urban Lab Walk: Hackney — Aftermath of Regeneration
Urbanism

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May 17, 2022

Workshop Report — PhD Life | Postgrad Urbanists

PhD Life: The following gives an account of the online workshop “PhD Life”, organised by UCL Postgrad Urbanists — an interdisciplinary academic forum organised by students associated with the UCL Urban Laboratory — on 29th March 2022, for PhD researchers at UCL and beyond. …

Presentation Skills

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Workshop Report — PhD Life | Postgrad Urbanists
Workshop Report — PhD Life | Postgrad Urbanists
Presentation Skills

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May 17, 2022

In conversation with Giada Peterle | Postgrad Urbanists

Dr Giada Peterle joined Postgrad Urbanists’ PhD Life Workshop in March for a conversation with PGU Chair Sidra Ahmed about Giada’s research and illustrations, PhD experience, and Narrative Geographies blog. This piece recaps the conversation and is written by PGU committee members Sidra Ahmed and Lu Mirza, PhD Researchers based…

Comics

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In conversation with Giada Peterle | Postgrad Urbanists
In conversation with Giada Peterle | Postgrad Urbanists
Comics

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Apr 19, 2022

Urban Lab Walk: The GreenWay — Green & Blue Infrastructure

During the Spring of 2022 UCL Urban Lab curated a series of walks across East London, as a means of exploring London once more following the Covid-19 ‘lockdowns’ which had enforced the cancellation of so many in-person events, and linked to its annual theme Emergency. Running between UCL’s Bloomsbury Campus…

Urbanism

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Urban Lab Walk: The GreenWay — Green & Blue Infrastructure
Urban Lab Walk: The GreenWay — Green & Blue Infrastructure
Urbanism

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Apr 13, 2022

Urban Lab Walk: London at Night

During the Spring of 2022 UCL Urban Lab curated a series of walks across East London, as a means of exploring London once more following the Covid-19 ‘lockdowns’ which had enforced the cancellation of so many in-person events, and linked to its annual theme Emergency. Running between UCL’s Bloomsbury Campus…

Urbanism

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Urban Lab Walk: London at Night
Urban Lab Walk: London at Night
Urbanism

6 min read

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