Spatial Cultures workshop [UCL Sept. 19th, 2013]

A one-day workshop exploring the relationship of urban and architectural built form to movement, rest, encounter and social interaction past and present

more information available here.

The Future of Cities [Early Career Workshop] 23 Oct. 2013

Call for Papers: THE FUTURE OF CITIES Early Career Workshop, 23 October 2013, University of Oxford [deadline 31 August 2013-reposted from URB-GEOG-FORUM]

The Oxford Programme for the Future of Cities invites submissions for this year’s Future of Cities Early Career Scholars workshop. The workshop will take place on the 23 October as part of the international symposium The Flexible City that will gather more than 35 key scholars and practitioners.

 

The workshop is aimed at a selected number of early career academics working in the field of urban studies, especially at postdoc and junior faculty levels. The Programme will also consider abstracts from outstanding PhD students in their final year. Papers should match one or more of the four core research themes of the Programme’s ‘Flexible City’ agenda (see below), engage with original research geared towards discussing the future of cities and the contemporary challenges faced by urban