1. Updates
Week 7
Hello Urbanists! For those of you in Oxford - congratulations, the end of term is in sight! Wondering how to fill the void in your life once term is over? Whether you have been involved with our work in the past or not, the role of Editor-in-Chief of Oxford Urbanists is open for applications. Scroll down to the 'opportunities' section of the newsletter for more information. We're a lovely bunch, and would love for you to join us!
Read on for news on the lost Benin City, opportunities to become editor-in-chief or become a speaker at a conference in Colombia, as well as attending conferences and summer courses, events happening from Oxford to Singapore… and much much more.
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After the 'Big Green Day Out', an event partly intended to boost climate change awareness was (ironically?) cancelled on Saturday due to strong winds, we wanted to draw more attention to Oxford Green Week, which will see a variety of events taking place across the week in the city of Oxford. Find more information here.
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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
- Story of cities #5: Benin City, the mighty medieval capital now lost without trace (The Guardian)
- Walls four times longer than the Great Wall of China, an intricate fractal design, now gone - why?
- Transit and Scale Variance Part 2: Soviet Triangles (Pedestrian Observations)
- On subways and other urban transport systems as a mathematical dance of shapes, flows, and connections
- The Largest Co-Housing Building in the World Is Coming to San Jose (CityLab)
- Does your accommodation have Bob Ross painting nights?
- Migrants with Irregular Status: Guidance for Cities (Cities of Migration)
- Seeing migrants as moving through cities, not only across borders, this article features a fab mini-documentary - great for those of you looking for some audio-visual relief from incessant reading.
- 10 Ways to Change How You Interact With Your City (Next City)
- 'Deep attention is good for the soul' - and also good for avoiding stepping in unpleasant substances on your way to Tesco, as I learned this week. A great guide to urban mindfulness.
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3. Events
Events in Oxford
Tuesday 11 June
From emergency shelters to dwellings: on the role of refugees as architects and the construction of dwellings in Zaatari Camp, Jordan
- Speaker: Ayham Dalal
- Details: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road. 13:00.
Tuesday 11 June
Tanushree Goyal, "Do Gender Quotas Improve Political Participation? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Delhi"
- Speaker: Tanushree Goyal
- Details: Venue to be announced. 13:30.
Tuesday 11 June
Income Growth and the Distributional Effects of Urban Spatial Sorting
- Speakers: Cecile Gaubert (with Victor Couture, Jessie Handbury and Erik Hurst)
- Details: Manor Road Building, Manor Road. 14:30.
Wednesday 12 June
- Speakers: Charlie Luxton in conversation with Transition by Design
- Details: Open House, 36 Little Clarendon Street. 19:00.
Thursday 13 June
Street Sense: Capturing How Cities Make Us Feel
- Speaker: Dr Ben Chrisinger
- Details: Violet Butler Room, 32-42 Wellington Square (Barnett House). 10:00.
Thursday 13 June
Future landscapes
- Speakers: various speakers
- Details: St Luke's Chapel, Woodstock Road. 18:00.
Thursday 13 June
Housing Matters #8 - Who owns England
- Speakers: Guy Shrubsole in conversation with Cat Hobbs
- Details: Open House Oxford, 36 Little Clarendon Street. 19:30 - 21:00.
Friday 14 June
BRICS: unpacking land-use transformations
- Speakers: Various. Keynote address by Prof. Ruth Hall.
- Details: Seminar Room 2, Queen Elizabeth House, Mansfield Road. 9:30 - 18:00.
- Please note this is an all-day workshop featuring multiple speakers. The workshop will feature 3 main topics of discussion: 'urban spaces' (9:45-11:15), 'infrastructure spaces' (11:30 - 13:30), and 'rural spaces' (14:30 - 15:45).
Monday 17 June
Voluntary apartheid in fast-growing settler cities: New Orleans and Odessa (1803-1856)
- Speaker: Olivia Durand
- Details: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road. 12:00.
17 & 18 June
digital | visual | cultural 3 — models, volume, and digital 3D visualisation
- Speaker: Clancy Wilmott.
- Details: St John's Auditorium, Oxford
- Booking required
Tuesday 18 June
The Welfare Consequences of Formalizing Developing Country Cities: Evidence from the Mumbai Mills Redevelopment
- Speakers: Mike Gechter
- Details: Room 2, Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road, 13:00.
Thursday 20 June
Urban segregation in behaviours: A data-driven approach
- Speaker: Dr Xiaowen Dong
- Details: 66 Banbury Road (Wolsey Hall). 14:00.
Thursday 20 June
Creating healthy, sustainable, city food environments
- Speaker: Please see link for full list of speakers.
- Details: 75 George Street (Hayes House). 17:30.
Thursday 20 June
Cities and the global agendas
- Speaker: William Cobbett
- Details: Lecture theatre, Rewley House, 1-7 Wellington Square. 17:45.
Wednesday 26 June
Urban and rural landscapes in the medieval Mediterranean
- Speakers: various speakers
- Details: St John's College, St Giles. 9:00,
Wednesday 26 June
Beyond the Gap : How Countries Can Afford the Infrastructure They Need while Protecting the Planet
- Speaker: Julie Rozenberg
- Details: Gottman A, Dyson Perrins Building
off South Parks Road
Events in the UK
Wednesday 12 June
Personhood in motion: the moral landscape of mobility in Kampala, Uganda
- Speaker: Dr Jaob Doherty
- Details: Seminar Room 6, University of Edinburgh. 8:45.
Thursday 13 June
Measuring community in an urban age
- Please see link for details
- Please RSVP to lse.cities@lse.ac.uk
Thursday 27 June
Urban identities: past and present
- Speakers: Various speakers
- Details: Humanities Building, University of Warwick. 9:30.
- Booking required. Limited places available.
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
Thursday 11 - Friday 12 July
The Pursuit of Global Urban History
- Speakers: Various speakers.
- Details: John Foster Hall, Oadby Conference Centre, University of Leicester, Leicester.
- Pre-registration required.
Events around the World
11 June (webinar)
Carsharing's Place in the Future of Mobility
- Speaker: Time Papandreou
- Details: Webinar. 18:00 - 19:00 USA Eastern time
12 June (webinar)
How Technology Can Improve Urban Design Engagement
- Speaker: Lou Huang
- Details: Webinar. 13:00 - 14:00 USA Eastern time
21-22 June (conference)
International Conference on Affordable And Sustainable Housing
- Speakers: Please see link
- Details: Faculty of Architecture, Czech Technical, Prague, Czechia.
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.
27 June
2019 Global Walking Tour
- On 27 June, you can join a tour happening in your city, or follow along on Twitter or Instagram using #CTBUHWalks.
2-4 October
CIVITAS Forum 2019
- Please see link for full list of speakers and further details
- Graz, Austria
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4. Opportunities
Oxford Urbanists Team - Work with us in a number of roles!
Call for papers (speakers and workshops)
Festival 'no conocí el Palma’ 2019
Speakers and workshops are being sought for the fourth edition of the festival, which will be held from 31st August to 28th September, 2019 in Barranquilla, Colombia.
The festival is concerned with projects and ideas concerning the multiple ways in which heritage, city and memory are connected --- design, architecture, photography, gastronomy, and music are all areas that will be explored.
Deadline for proposals is 14 June
Find more information here and here.
Call for submissions
Civil Society Review Journal, Oxford
The journal is currently looking for peer-reviewers and article submissions for their first issue. They provide independent research and original data on the contribution of civil society to humanitarian assistance, food security, education, human rights and the nexus of international relations & development.
If you are interested, please email bertie@oxfordomnia.org, and do pass this on to anyone else who may be interested.
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
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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