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Ebru Soytemel at the seminar ‘Is Britain pulling apart?'

Submitted by Esther Vicente on Sun, 19/05/2013 - 20:16

Ebru Soytemel gave a talk on 13 May 2013 at the seminar ‘Is Britain pulling apart?' . The seminar, which took place at the Royal Statistical Society in London, aimed at exploring methods for studying social distance and social relations. The seminar is organised by the Sociology Department of  the University of Stirling  within the scope of an ESRC research project on social distance. Presentations and discussions focused on three themes : Social connections and social distance; The past, and future, of social connectivity; Tools for measuring social distance.

Michele Acuto on Mayors in The Atlantic

Submitted by Esther Vicente on Mon, 29/04/2013 - 12:05

"Around the World Mayors Take Charge", co-authored by Research Fellow Michele Acuto and Parag Khanna has just been featured in The Atlantic.

Michele Acuto at the International Studies Association 3-6 April

Submitted by Esther Vicente on Wed, 27/03/2013 - 18:15

Stephen Barter Fellow Michele Acuto will be chairing a roundtable at the next International Studies Association annual meeting in San Francisco on “assemblage thinking” in international theory, and deliver two papers drawing on his project “the new climate leaders.”

Details of the roundtable:

Global City and Geography of Garbage panels at AAG

Submitted by Esther Vicente on Wed, 27/03/2013 - 17:57

Stephen Barter Fellow Michele Acuto will be chairing two roundtables at the next Association of American Geographers annual meeting in Los Angeles, one on the state of the art of “discard studies”, linking in his current research on waste and global cities, and one gathering several contributors from the “Global City Challenges” volume emerging from the “Global City in Theory and Practice”

Steve Rayner at the Economist Technology Frontiers 2013

Submitted by Esther Vicente on Sun, 03/03/2013 - 13:55

Prof Steve Rayner will be speaking at this year's Technology Frontiers conference organized by the Economist (5-6 March 2013) with over 250 business leaders gathered to look beyond new technologies themselves and to examine them in a broader context in their interactions with the way we live.

The Flexible City Photo Competition Winners

Submitted by Esther Vicente on Fri, 22/02/2013 - 16:14

Thank you very much to everyone who entered “The Flexible City” Photo Competition. The Flexible City Photo Competition looked for images which represents the city as a flexible and dynamic space that better responds to evolving circumstances. The competition focussed on images that represents different dimensions of the Flexible City- architectural, infrastructural, social, economic, political, environmental or symbolic.

2013 Distinguished Lecture Series: 'De-centering Urbanism'

Submitted by Esther Vicente on Wed, 13/02/2013 - 12:50

Research being conducted under the Oxford Programme for the Future of Cities seeks to understand how to make cities flexible enough to cope with the emerging challenges of environmental and societal change. Paramount to this task is a theorisation of the city that steps beyond traditional canons and disciplinary divides.

Michele Acuto's "The Urban Link" published by Routledge

Submitted by Esther Vicente on Thu, 07/02/2013 - 19:07

The volume Global Cities, Governance and Diplomacy: The Urban Link, written by Research Fellow Michele Acuto, has been published as part of the Routledge New Diplomacy Studies series, and it gathers insight from Acuto's "The New Climate Leaders?" research project carried out in Oxford as well as at the University of Southern California and at the Australian

Steve Rayner keynote at ULI Europe Annual Conference in Paris on Wed 6 February

Submitted by Esther Vicente on Mon, 04/02/2013 - 22:40

Steve Rayner will deliver the Keynote session "the Flexible City" at the Urban Land Institute's 2013 Annual Conference in Paris on the 6 February 2013 at the The Westin Paris - Vendôme (3 rue de Castiglione, 75001 Paris, France). More information here.