We’re going to assemble a list of urban theory events and discussions. First up, two active series, one based at London universities and the other at Berkeley and Stanford, and an online, global research network, of “world cities” based at Loughborough University, UK:
Urban Salon, London. Recent talk of note: Illegal’ Geographies of the City: Everyday [...]
Comments from Salman Rushdie on freedom, religion, growing up in Bombay and England, and the theme of fear and happiness in the modern world and how it is anticipated in earlier imperial moments, such as the mid 1400s which saw the discovery of America, the flowering of Venice and Florence and, far to the east, [...]
Tagged , CBC, Festival of Ideas, Rushdie, University of Alberta Photo: Praga Anca Moanta, in bifurcaciones 7
bifurcaciones, an online review of urban cultural studies, has released its much anticipated issue 7.
This project of Ricardo Greene, LorenaPérez, Diego Campos and Tomas Errazuriz synthesizes the atmospheres of Santiago-Sao Paulo-Buenos Aires-London-New York. We have already remarked ont he quality and significance of Spanish language urban and cultural [...]
RADIATOR – CALL FOR ARTISTS
Festival | Symposium
Nottingham 13 -18 Jan 2009
EXPLOITS IN THE WIRELESS CITY
OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – Deadline 25th Nov 2008
Since the abundant proliferation of digital communication technology, our (living) space has been expanded, transformed, reshaped. In our everyday lives we increasingly connect to mediated interfaces, be it consciously or without [...]
The Chinese Dream Neville Mars, Adrian Hornsby, and Saskia Vendel (project management) 010 Publishers, Rotterdam 2008 . 704pp+79pp magazine. ISBN 97864506529 [Amazon.ca]
The Chinese Dream surveys scenarios of possible Chinese urban development over the dozen years to 2020. Using graphics and text, the book explores the urban implications of current plans, population [...]
Tagged China, chinese city, consumerism, urbanization