1. Updates
Week 12
Hello Urbanists! The biggest news this week, of course, is Oxford's plan to become the UK's first city to install so-called 'bouncenators' - effectively trampoline-like devices designed to generate electricity through use. If you'd like to read more about these symbols of 'naïve urbanism', scroll down to the news section below.
Read on for news on self-healing concrete, opportunities to attend conferences and a summer course on global leadership for the future of cities, events happening from Oxford to Singapore… and much much more.
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This week, we're giving a warm welcome to the newest member of our team, Mahak Agrawal, who is our new South Asia Coordinator. An urban planner and researcher from India, Mahak is currently working on the issue of sanitation deprivation and climate change response across coastal districts of India, and has served as an expert reviewer to the Second Order Draft of the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land. Welcome, Mahak!
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As always, please do send in your pictures and work - we'd love to feature them in our newsletter. Head over to Facebook, Twitter, and our website pages for more updates.
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2. Urbanist News around the World
- China's 'Silk Road urbanism' is changing cities from London to Kampala – can locals keep control? (The Conversation)
- 'Silk road' because of its description of the growth of infrastructural corridors, but also because of this article's overwhelming focus on China - an interesting, if slightly finger-pointing, piece
- Next Up in Amsterdam's War on Cars: Kill 1,500 Parking Spaces a Year (CityLab)
- Toronto by public transportation - from Point A to anywhere (Medium)
- On the Toronto Transit Explorer, giving Dora a run for her money
- The smart cities of the future are already taking off (Singularity Hub)
- 'self-healing concrete' and 'self-charging windows' - need I say more?
- Intimate infrastructures: (dis)connected cities and violence against women (King's College London)
- On a research project exploring the link between infrastructure and violence through a focus on women in Indian cities, and their connections and disconnections with various infrastructures - an easy and enlightening read.
- Why the world's recycling system stopped working (Financial Times)
- Perhaps a little grandiose to suggest that there was previously a 'system' in place, but this is a very informative article on what China's refusal of refuse reveals about flows of waste worldwide
- Paul Cheshire on urban economics (The Unassuming Economist)
- On why “land is making a comeback”, reasons for the dramatic turnaround in the value of land, the “key tools in the urban policy box”, and other things I previously hadn't a clue about
- Naïve urbanism 'springs' into action in UK city (Lirpa Digest)
- Really? Trampolines on every street corner in Oxford? Happy April Fools' Day.
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3. Urbanist Events
Events in Oxford
Tuesday 14 May
Single in the City: Women, Migration and Domestic Work in India
- Speakers: To be announced.
- Details: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road. 14:00.
Monday 20 May
City region food systems: potential for impacting planetary boundaries and food security
- Speaker: Dr Mike Hamm
- Details: Oxford Martin School, Corner of Catte and Holywell Streets. 17:00.
Evens in the UK
16 April
Designing Change – Confidence, Liberalism, and Urban Planning in the 21st Century
- Speakers: Please see link for full list of speakers.
- Details: AECOM offices at Aldgate. 18:30 - 20:15. Registration required.
16 May
Cities Imaginaries Lecture 2019 (UCL)
- Speaker: Sonjah Stanley Niaah
- Details: Gustav Tuck Lecture Theatre, 005: Wilkins Main Building, Gower Street, London. 18:30 - 20:00.
30 May
Constructing Realities Summer Special (UCL)
- Speaker: Mitchell Joachim
- Details: UCL at Here East, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London. 18:30 - 20:30.
4 June
BSP Expo 2019 (UCLL)
- Details: South Cloisters, Wilkins Building, Gower Street, London. 17:00.
Friday 5 - Sunday 7 July
SPACE International Conference 2019 on City Planning and Urban Design
- Speakers: Please see link for full list of speakers
- Details: Antoinette Hotel, The Broadway, Wimbledon, London, SW19 1SD
Events around the World
Friday 5 April
Citizen-Led Pedestrian Enablers in São Paulo: Actuating and Symbolic Infrastructures
- Speakers: Denver Nixon & Tim Schwanen
- Details: Blue Room, Omni, East, Washington. 8:00.
Friday 5 April
Knowing and Governing through Urban Experimentation
- Speakers: Dr Debbie Hopkins
- Details: 8222, Park Tower Suites, Marriott, Lobby Level, Washington. 8:00.
Friday 5 April
Social infrastructures of care and the everyday mobilities of new parents in the austere city
- Speakers: Jennie Middleton
- Details: Blue Room, Omni, East, Washington. 9:55.
2 - 5 April (conference)
13th AESOP Young Academics conference
Planning inclusive spaces: An inter- and trans-disciplinary approach
- Speakers: please see link for full list of speakers
- Details: Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
25 April (conference)
Urban Challenge Conference 2019
- Speakers: please see link for full list of speakers
- Details: Copenhagen Business School, Ovnhallen, Porcelænshaven 24A, 2000 Frederiksberg. 9:45 - 16:00.
13-15 May (conference)
Smart Cities New York
- Speakers: please see link for full list of speakers
- Details: Cornell Tech and Pier 36. Multiple locations. Please follow link and download guide.
24-26 June (conference)
12th conference of the International Forum on Urbanism (IFOU)
Beyond Resilience
- Speakers: please see link for full list of speakers
- Details: Department of Architecture and Planning, Universitas Tarumanagara, Jakarta.
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4. Opportunities for Urbanists
Oxford Urbanists Team - Work with us in a number of roles!
Call for citizens
Citizen science - Greco project
GRECO are looking for citizens to actively participate in a citizen science project which will see researchers seek citizens' opinions and include them in the photovoltaics process. All you have to do is fill in the form (and find more information) here.
Call for Papers
SPACE International Conference 2019 on City Planning and Urban Design, 5 -7 July 2019
The conference will act as a platform to discuss the recent advances and research results in the fields of City Planning and Urban Design and all related areas such as architecture, planning, policy studies, education, interior architecture, urban studies, social sciences, engineering, arts, and so on.
The Abstract submission deadline is 20 March.
Find more information here.
Summer course
2019 Global Leadership for the Future of Cities Summer Course
The Future of Cities Summer Course describes itself as "designed to provide talented and advanced university students and young professionals from a variety of disciplines and fields aspiring to pursue high-level research or management careers with the exposure to the key areas involved in making urban development sustainable, flexible, dynamic, resilient and vibrant in response to evolving challenges and circumstances. These areas include governance and policy; design and planning; technology and innovation; economics, business and finance; and social and cultural development". The course will take place between 18–31 August 2019 in Christ Church college, Oxford. The deadline for applications is 31 May.
Find more information here.
Call for Papers
Urb-Iot
The goal of the conference is to solicit original and inspiring research contributions from technology experts, designers, researchers, urban planners, and architects in academia and industry. Bringing together practitioners and researchers to share knowledge, experiences, and best practices, Urb-IoT 2019 seeks multi-disciplinary contributions in the areas of Citizen Engagement, Urban Analytics, and IoT Applications and Services in Urban Context. Find 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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