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Jun 8

A Place in the City: How the right to the city is fought today in Latin American cities

Earlier this year, UCL Urban Lab hosted a screening of the feature-length documentary ‘A Place in the City’ as part of its 20th anniversary…

A Place in the City: How the right to the city is fought today in Latin American cities

UCL Urban Laboratory

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Jul 8, 2025

Reflecting on urban forms, their politics and possibilities

Shapes and the City Symposium | Held on 09 June 2025 at UCL

Reflecting on urban forms, their politics and possibilities

UCL Urban Laboratory

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Oct 16, 2024

The duality of damage (hasar) in a post-earthquake Antioch

In this blog, Erkan Gürsel discusses the continued efforts by the Turkish government to usurp survivors’ lands and assets in Antakya…

The duality of damage (hasar) in a post-earthquake Antioch

UCL Urban Laboratory

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Sep 19, 2024

Urban Lab Walk: Ruth Glass’ 1964 London Route in 2024

Documented by Postgrad Urbanists, Sidra Ahmed (PhD, UCL Geography) and Yichang Sun (PhD, The Bartlett School of Architecture)

Urban Lab Walk: Ruth Glass’ 1964 London Route in 2024

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Jul 24, 2024

A Waiter in Paris — Book walk and ‘in conversation’ with Edward Chisholm

On a sunny Spring afternoon, UCL Postgrad Urbanists went on a book walk through Regent’s Park discussing Edward Chisholm’s A Waiter in…

A Waiter in Paris — Book walk and ‘in conversation’ with Edward Chisholm

UCL Urban Laboratory

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Jul 11, 2024

‘Do you have a special uniform?!’

Helen Simms joined an international workshop bringing together insights from around the world into how natural and cultural heritage policy…

‘Do you have a special uniform?!’

UCL Urban Laboratory

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Sep 15, 2023

Reflections: The Shard Decade

On 5 July 2022, UCL Urban Lab hosted an event marking ten years to the day since The Shard was formally inaugurated. The event was held at…

Reflections: The Shard Decade

UCL Urban Laboratory

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Mar 23, 2023

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…

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

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

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Oct 11, 2022

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

by Eduardo Nobre, Associate Professor in the School of Architecture and Urbanism, University of São Paulo, Brazil.

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

UCL Urban Laboratory

UCL Urban Laboratory

Crossdisciplinary centre for critical and creative urban thinking, teaching, research and practice at UCL | www.ucl.ac.uk/urban-lab

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