1. Updates
(Remember Remember) 5th of November
Beat the Week 5 blues with our pioneering New Literacies Lecture! Dr Neave O'Clery will be talking on 'What drives the success of cities?' this Thursday! Leave that pesky formative essay at home and come along to what is set to be a fascinating lecture. Find more details below and on the event's Facebook page.
If you're just joining the Oxford Urbanists, find us on Facebook, Twitter, and on our Website.
We still have a lot of opportunities to work with us - all of which are suitable for Freshers and continuers alike - get involved! If you are have been on fieldwork or travelling, feel free to send in your pictures and work, and have it featured in our newsletter.
Spotlight on work by the Urbanist team
Thanks to everyone who came along to Will Conroy's talk last week on ' The Operative Commons'. It was great to hear some of Will's ideas and to be able to discuss and unpack many of them in greater detail.
The talk formed part of our Working Paper Series, which provides an environment for discussion and feedback on papers and research featuring urban issues, particularly those which are still being worked upon. It's a great opportunity for those of you who want to learn about or discuss urban issues, or if you have a paper in the works that you'd like to bounce off a friendly (and very interested!) crowd. Please get in touch if you'd be interested in sharing your work at a Working Paper Series event
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2. Urbanist News around the World
- What is green cake and why did this woman invent it? (BBC)
- Possibly my favourite piece of urban news this week. Two Palestinian women have invented a new type of concrete block made, in large part, from ash and rubble. I also recommend articles from AlJazeera and other platforms on this story, but this is a video, and I thought we could all do with a video in Week 5.
- Brewing up an urban revival in Porto Alegre (Americas Quarterly)
- India is building a high-tech sustainable city from scratch (World Economic Forum)
- ...and it sounds great. The city will be built n Andhra Pradesh to serve as the province's new capital city.
- 9 Great Urban Ideas from Latin American Cities (Americas Quarterly)
- Just nine great ideas for making cities safer, greener, happier places.
- How cities, not states, can solve the world's biggest problems (World Economic Forum)
- Despite its slightly alarmist claims about cities offering "humanity's most realistic hope of collective survival", this article features some interesting ideas on how cities can help to build a better future
- New Vancouver condo tower on Robson Street will have separate lobby for social housing (Straight)
- Segregation and stigmatisation of social housing residents in Vancouver
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3. Urbanist Events
Events in Oxford
Tuesday 6 November
Love thy neighbour as thyself? The 'neighbour' and right-wing identity politics in the West
- Speaker: Prof. Alenka Zupancic
- Details: St Anthony's College, 62 Woodstock Road. 17:00.
Wednesday 7 November
Beyond Bread: Stick rice, millet porridge, and grain wines in the definition of a civilizational area
- Speaker: Prof. Dorian Fuller
- Details: Institute of Human Sciences (The Pauling Centre), 58a Banbury Road. 17:00.
Thursday 8 November
What drives the success of cities? - Urbanists' New Literacies lecture series
- Speaker: Dr Neave O'Clery
- Details: University College Lecture Theatre, 10 Merton Street (Level 2). 4 - 6pm.
- Facebook event page
Thursday 22 November
From identity and inequality to aggregation and transfer discourses of social differentiation
- Speaker: Prof. Gillian Rose
- Details: Oxford Internet Institute, 1 St Giles. 17:15 - 19:00
Events in the UK
7 November
Dialogues in Urban Equality: Extreme Poverty (UCL lecture)
- Speakers: Please find the panel of speakers via the link above or on its Facebook page
- Details: Gustave Tuck lecture theatre, Wilkins Building, Gower St, London, WC1E 6BT 17:30 - 19:00
14 November
Unlocking sustainable cities (RGS lecture)
- Speaker: Prof. Paul Chatterton
- Details: Bootham School, York. 7:15-8:30pm
Urban Faming Futures (RGS lecture)
- Speaker: Dr Laura Vickers
- Details: The Birmingham and Midland Institute, Margaret Street. 6:30-8:00pm
Events around the World
13 - 15 November 2018
Smart City: Expo World Congress
Smart City Expo World Congress (SCEWC) has been an unmissable event combining the latest solutions and technologies, and inspirational keynotes on improving life in cities. In 2018, the event intends to reflect on what makes a city livable, what happens when "gentrification" changes the whole social character of a neighborhood, and how sharing can transform the way it operates so that it can become more sustainable, resilient, inclusive and, of course, smarter with a focus on people.
29 - 30th November 2018
Urban Age 'Developing Urban Futures' Conference
- Speakers: LSE Cities at the London School of Economics, and the Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft.
- Details: Addis Ababa
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4. Opportunities for Urbanists
Oxford Urbanists Team - Work with us in a number of roles!
Call for Papers
Local and Urban Governance: Trends, Challenges, and Innovations in a Globalising World
The IGU Commission on Geography of Governance and the University of Cape Verde will be hosting this international conference between 4-7 September 2019 at the University of Cape Verde. The deadline for Abstract submission is the 31 January 2019. More details can be found here.
Call for Video Entries
Urban Audiovisual Festival, June 29-30 June - 2019
Theme: Urban Mobilities. Deadline, 15th February 2019
More Information here
PhD Scholarship
Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne
More information here
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As always, don't hesitate to reach out with ideas and opportunities to share with the greater Urbanist community. Have a great week!
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