Forthcoming Events

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Past Events

'City as commodity – crucible of revolt' Prof. Neil Smith (City University of New York)

Date: 
Tue, 24/04/2012 - 17:00

The Oxford Programme for the Future of Cities, University of Oxford, presents a series of three lectures with distinguished academics whose inspirational work has contributed significantly to our understanding of contemporary cities and societies. This event is organised in collaboration with the Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford. 

Urban Feast: Future of Cities Potluck Seminar - Ben Gidley

Date: 
Wed, 28/03/2012 - 11:30

This month’s Urban Feast presenter will be Ben Gidley, a Senior Researcher at COMPAS. Ben will be talking about his on-going research on “Global Migration and the Future of the Right to the City: On the Changing Face of the European Metropolis".

Future of Cities Distinguished Lecture Series 2011-2012 : Hilary Term

Date: 
Wed, 07/03/2012 - 17:00
'Low Carbon Nation: Making new market opportunities'
Speaker: Simon Marvin, Durham Energy Institute, University of Durham
Chair: Steve Rayner, InSIS, University of Oxford
 

Distinguished Lecture Series 2011-2012: Michaelmas Term

Date: 
Tue, 08/11/2011 - 17:00

'Traces of elsewhere in making city futures: Cities in a world of cities'
Edmond Safra Lecture Theatre, Saïd Business School

Speaker: Jennifer Robinson, Department of Geography, University College London

Flexibility and Urban Governance: Experience from African and Latin American cities

Date: 
Mon, 28/03/2011 - 16:30

As the pace of urbanisation accelerates around the world, cities in the global South offer today the richest range of experiences in the urban condition. Two internationally renowned scholars, AbdouMaliq Simone and Diane Davies, will discuss the governance challenges of cities in Africa and Latin America – the provisionality, informality, promise and violence that characterise the organisation of urban life in much of the world today.

This double lecture marks the conclusion of the first phase of the project ‘Understanding the Dynamics of Urban Flexibility and Reconstruction’, sponsored by the Oxford Programme for the Future of Cities.

The Future of Cities 2011

Date: 
Mon, 28/02/2011 (All day)

Cities face many challenges - economic, climate, resources, infrastructure and demographic.

As centres of innovation, can cities produce the solutions they need to tackle them?

As the bulk of the world's population will be in fast-growing large urban areas by 2050, do the powers that cities have need to be re-thought?

This two day conference (28th Feb - 1st March) will address these questions, among others, at Chatham House in London. Registration is essential for this event.

Resilience and adaptation in complex city systems

Date: 
Wed, 01/12/2010 - 16:30

Speaker: James Simmie, Department of Planning, Oxford Brookes University
Commentator: Javier Lezaun, James Martin Lecturer in Science and Technology Governance
Presentation title: Resilience and adaptation in complex city systems (download presentation)

Sustainable development and crime in the urban Caribbean

Date: 
Tue, 23/11/2010 - 16:30

Speaker: David Howard, University Lecturer in Sustainable Urban Development, University of Oxford
Presentation: Sustainable development and crime in the urban Caribbean (download presentation)

Global migration and the future of le droit à la ville

Date: 
Tue, 16/11/2010 - 16:30

Speaker: Michael Keith, Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, University of Oxford
Commentator: Jimin Zhao, Director, China Environment and Energy Programme, Environment Change Institute, University of Oxford
Presentation: Global migration and the future of le droit à la ville (download presentation)

New business models for low-carbon cities

Date: 
Tue, 09/11/2010 - 16:30

Speaker: Mark Hinnells, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford
Presentation: New business models for low-carbon cities (download presentation)