The real cost of Dubai's dream:
http://www.newleftreview.org/?view=2635
Tuesday 23 December 2008
Saturday 29 November 2008
Tuesday 25 November 2008
Friday 21 November 2008
Wednesday 19 November 2008
Tuesday 4 November 2008
Thursday 30 October 2008
David Harvey on Capital (Marx)
The Marxist Urban Geographer David Harvey is on the Reading List, key article being "From managerialism to entrepreneurialism ..."
You can watch David Harvey's Lectures that explain Marx's classic work on Capital here:
http://davidharvey.org/
You can watch David Harvey's Lectures that explain Marx's classic work on Capital here:
http://davidharvey.org/
Tuesday 28 October 2008
Paul Krugman Nobel Prize 2008 - GLOBAL CITIES
The nobel prize for economics for 2008 has gone to an economic geographer who has worked on global cities:
http://econ.ucalgary.ca/node/288
http://econ.ucalgary.ca/node/288
Sunday 26 October 2008
World Cities Dissertation?
Are you thinking of doing a world cities dissertation in your final year?
One place to start is by exploring the resources on this website:
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/in_teach.html
One place to start is by exploring the resources on this website:
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/in_teach.html
GaWC Website - MAIN RESOURCE
You must write your coursework essay, citing and referencing (only) a selection from the 280+ research bulletins posted on the GaWC site:
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/
Saskia Sassen on Wikipedia
Some further info. from links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskia_Sassen
Note: Please don't trust Wikipedia! For example, Sassen did not coin the term global city as this webpage incorrectly claims!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskia_Sassen
Note: Please don't trust Wikipedia! For example, Sassen did not coin the term global city as this webpage incorrectly claims!
Gentrification in New York - Williamsburg, Brooklyn
You will be touring Williamsburg on the 'Gentrification Field Day' in New York. This video gives you a flavour of the area before we go:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=lfyycHoqDRA
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=lfyycHoqDRA
Promotional Video - Birmingham 'Global City'
Urban entrepreneurialism, urban marketing lecture; Birmingham 'wannabe' global city:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3SMNPGZVkkk
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3SMNPGZVkkk
Tuesday 21 October 2008
Urban MultiplCITIES Programme
urban multipliCITIES
Exploring multiple urbanisms and challenging conventional representations
6-7 November 2008 Queen Mary University of London
A two day conference and open discussion
organised by the RGS-IBG Urban Geography Research Group
THURSDAY 6 November 2008
12.30 -2.00 Registration and Lunch
2.00 – 3.30 Keynotes:
Police, politics and the city
Mustafa Dikec, Royal Holloway University of London
Urban Interventions: art, politics and pedagogy
David Pinder, Queen Mary University of London
3.30 – 4.00 Tea/Coffee Break
4.00 – 5.30 Paper Session:
Artefact/artifice: a student’s guide to fabrication
Charles Walker, Auckland University of Technology
Mapping Urban Experience in Contemporary Art: Mark Bradford and Julie Mehretu
Kathryn Brown, University of Kent, Canterbury
Meaningful Materialities: ‘getting at’ urban multiplicities through Laclau and Mouffe’s discourse theory
Sophie Bond, University of Glasgow
From the Screen to the City: cinema and the fluid archive of the Bronx andNaples
Alessandro Buffa, State University of New York at Stony Brook
DINNER
FRIDAY 7 November 2008
10.00 – 11.30 Paper Session:
Parkour, Cities and the Event
Oli Mould, University of the Arts, London
Historicising the ‘Happy Habitat’: young people and the public domain in a Victorian city
Simon Sleight, Monash University, Melbourne
Urban Nature from the Inside Out
Russell Hitchings, University College London
Stories of ‘Home’: intergenerational femininity in Maidstone
Alex Fanghanel, University of Leeds
11.30 – 12.00 Tea/Coffee
12.00 – 12.45 Keynote:
Experiencing urban space: some methodological considerations from Bedford and Milton Keynes
Gillian Rose, Monica Degen & Begum Basdas,
Open University & Brunel University
12.45 – 2.00 Postgraduate Poster Session and Lunch
2.00 – 3.30 Paper Session :
Provincialising Gay Space: ordinary cities, ordinary sexualities
Gavin Brown, University of Leicester
Tracing Transnational Space in London
Mark Donnarumma, Birkbeck University of London
Squatting in Camps: how refugees challenge the understanding of housing poverty
Romola Sanyal, Rice University
Community Representation: lessons from a Johannesburg township
Dave Vanderhoven, University of Sheffield
3.30 – 3.45 Tea/ Coffee Break
3.35 – 4.30 Keynote:
Rights to the City
Engin Isin, Open University
Plenary Discussion and close
Registration Forms, information about accommodation and location maps can be downloaded from the UGRG website: www.urban-geography.org.uk
Costs: £50 waged
£25 unwaged/students
Dinner: £15
Registration Payments can be by cheque made out to Urban Geography Research Group and posted with Registration Form, or made at the Conference Registration Desk by cheque or cash.
Registration Deadline: Friday 24 October
For further information, contact: Margo Huxley: M.Huxley@sheffield.ac.uk
Richard Smith: R.G.Smith@swansea.ac.uk
Exploring multiple urbanisms and challenging conventional representations
6-7 November 2008 Queen Mary University of London
A two day conference and open discussion
organised by the RGS-IBG Urban Geography Research Group
THURSDAY 6 November 2008
12.30 -2.00 Registration and Lunch
2.00 – 3.30 Keynotes:
Police, politics and the city
Mustafa Dikec, Royal Holloway University of London
Urban Interventions: art, politics and pedagogy
David Pinder, Queen Mary University of London
3.30 – 4.00 Tea/Coffee Break
4.00 – 5.30 Paper Session:
Artefact/artifice: a student’s guide to fabrication
Charles Walker, Auckland University of Technology
Mapping Urban Experience in Contemporary Art: Mark Bradford and Julie Mehretu
Kathryn Brown, University of Kent, Canterbury
Meaningful Materialities: ‘getting at’ urban multiplicities through Laclau and Mouffe’s discourse theory
Sophie Bond, University of Glasgow
From the Screen to the City: cinema and the fluid archive of the Bronx andNaples
Alessandro Buffa, State University of New York at Stony Brook
DINNER
FRIDAY 7 November 2008
10.00 – 11.30 Paper Session:
Parkour, Cities and the Event
Oli Mould, University of the Arts, London
Historicising the ‘Happy Habitat’: young people and the public domain in a Victorian city
Simon Sleight, Monash University, Melbourne
Urban Nature from the Inside Out
Russell Hitchings, University College London
Stories of ‘Home’: intergenerational femininity in Maidstone
Alex Fanghanel, University of Leeds
11.30 – 12.00 Tea/Coffee
12.00 – 12.45 Keynote:
Experiencing urban space: some methodological considerations from Bedford and Milton Keynes
Gillian Rose, Monica Degen & Begum Basdas,
Open University & Brunel University
12.45 – 2.00 Postgraduate Poster Session and Lunch
2.00 – 3.30 Paper Session :
Provincialising Gay Space: ordinary cities, ordinary sexualities
Gavin Brown, University of Leicester
Tracing Transnational Space in London
Mark Donnarumma, Birkbeck University of London
Squatting in Camps: how refugees challenge the understanding of housing poverty
Romola Sanyal, Rice University
Community Representation: lessons from a Johannesburg township
Dave Vanderhoven, University of Sheffield
3.30 – 3.45 Tea/ Coffee Break
3.35 – 4.30 Keynote:
Rights to the City
Engin Isin, Open University
Plenary Discussion and close
Registration Forms, information about accommodation and location maps can be downloaded from the UGRG website: www.urban-geography.org.uk
Costs: £50 waged
£25 unwaged/students
Dinner: £15
Registration Payments can be by cheque made out to Urban Geography Research Group and posted with Registration Form, or made at the Conference Registration Desk by cheque or cash.
Registration Deadline: Friday 24 October
For further information, contact: Margo Huxley: M.Huxley@sheffield.ac.uk
Richard Smith: R.G.Smith@swansea.ac.uk
Thursday 16 October 2008
Cities and Climate Change
UrbanMultiplicities Conference Details (6-7 November 2008)
Urban MultipliCITIES
A two day conference and open discussion organised by the RGS-IBG Urban Geography Research Group 6-7 November 2008 Queen Mary, University of London
Exploring multiple urbanisms and challenging conventional representations.
Speakers include:
David Pinder. Urban Interventions: Art, Politics and Pedagogy
Mustafa Dikec. Police, Politics and the City
Gillian Rose, Monica Degen and Begum Baras. Experiencing Urban Space
Engin Isin. Rights to the City
Attendance registration deadline: Friday 24 October.
£50 waged£25 unwaged/studentsConference Registration Form.
Further information:
Margo Huxley, University of Sheffield. M.Huxley@sheffield.ac.uk
Richard Smith, Swansea University. R.G.Smith@swansea.ac.uk
Where to stay? Accommodation
Call for Contributions
Contributions of papers and postgraduate posters are invited.Abstracts due Friday 19 September 2008.
Building on two earlier conferences - Paradigmatic Cities? and Approaching the City - this year's UGRG conference aims to examine the multiplicities of 'the urban'. Rather than the unitary object implied by the terms 'the urban' or 'the city', multiple urbanisms are currently being called forth by research that, for instance: challenges conventional representations and hierarchies of cities; 'parochialises' cities of 'the North'; develops research into 'ordinary cities'; uncovers/explores diverse ways of inhabiting urban space; re-examines urban histories; or employs inventive methods of investigating urban experiences.
Urban MultipliCITIES aims to bring some of these proliferating fields into creative contact, and we are seeking contributions from a wide range of urban research that reflect the rich variety of work being undertaken in the field. Topics and methodologies might include (but are in no way restricted to):
gender and sexuality
methods: e.g. visual, aural, tactile, oral, performative, participatory
non-'Western' urban experiences
poetics and politics of urban imaginaries
post-coloniality
regeneration projects and everyday life
socio-technical materialities
suburban studies
practice, activism and politics
Over two days, the conference will take the form of keynote presentations, shorter papers, and include a poster session by postgraduate students. We hope to leave plenty of time for discussion, stimulated by papers that engage with Urban Multiplicities - in research, methods or practice. Papers are welcomed from researchers (including PhDs) at any stage of their careers, but the Poster Session is specifically designed for postgraduates.
If you would like to contribute a PAPER or a POSTER, contact Margo Huxley at M.Huxley@sheffield.ac.uk or Richard Smith at R.G.Smith@swansea.ac.uk
Deadline for 250 word Abstracts is Friday 19 September 2008
A two day conference and open discussion organised by the RGS-IBG Urban Geography Research Group 6-7 November 2008 Queen Mary, University of London
Exploring multiple urbanisms and challenging conventional representations.
Speakers include:
David Pinder. Urban Interventions: Art, Politics and Pedagogy
Mustafa Dikec. Police, Politics and the City
Gillian Rose, Monica Degen and Begum Baras. Experiencing Urban Space
Engin Isin. Rights to the City
Attendance registration deadline: Friday 24 October.
£50 waged£25 unwaged/studentsConference Registration Form.
Further information:
Margo Huxley, University of Sheffield. M.Huxley@sheffield.ac.uk
Richard Smith, Swansea University. R.G.Smith@swansea.ac.uk
Where to stay? Accommodation
Call for Contributions
Contributions of papers and postgraduate posters are invited.Abstracts due Friday 19 September 2008.
Building on two earlier conferences - Paradigmatic Cities? and Approaching the City - this year's UGRG conference aims to examine the multiplicities of 'the urban'. Rather than the unitary object implied by the terms 'the urban' or 'the city', multiple urbanisms are currently being called forth by research that, for instance: challenges conventional representations and hierarchies of cities; 'parochialises' cities of 'the North'; develops research into 'ordinary cities'; uncovers/explores diverse ways of inhabiting urban space; re-examines urban histories; or employs inventive methods of investigating urban experiences.
Urban MultipliCITIES aims to bring some of these proliferating fields into creative contact, and we are seeking contributions from a wide range of urban research that reflect the rich variety of work being undertaken in the field. Topics and methodologies might include (but are in no way restricted to):
gender and sexuality
methods: e.g. visual, aural, tactile, oral, performative, participatory
non-'Western' urban experiences
poetics and politics of urban imaginaries
post-coloniality
regeneration projects and everyday life
socio-technical materialities
suburban studies
practice, activism and politics
Over two days, the conference will take the form of keynote presentations, shorter papers, and include a poster session by postgraduate students. We hope to leave plenty of time for discussion, stimulated by papers that engage with Urban Multiplicities - in research, methods or practice. Papers are welcomed from researchers (including PhDs) at any stage of their careers, but the Poster Session is specifically designed for postgraduates.
If you would like to contribute a PAPER or a POSTER, contact Margo Huxley at M.Huxley@sheffield.ac.uk or Richard Smith at R.G.Smith@swansea.ac.uk
Deadline for 250 word Abstracts is Friday 19 September 2008
CUT SEMINARS (February to March 2009)
Centre for Urban Theory (CUT) Seminars, February-March 2009
Organizer: Dr Richard G. Smith
Tuesdays 4pm, Location: MUSEUM (Ground floor, Wallace Building)
* * *
February 3rd
Christina Volkmann (Swansea University) [with Christian De Cock and James Fitchett] "Myths of the Near Past: Envisioning 'Financial Times' anno 2007/08"
* * *
February 10th
Christian De Cock (Swansea University) “Cities in Fiction: Perambulations with John Berger”
* * *
February 17th
Alan Finlayson (Swansea University) “'The Subject of Financialisation”
* * *
March 3rd
David B. Clarke (Swansea University) “Utopologies”
* * *
March 10th
Richard G. Smith (Swansea University) “Cities from Space”
* * *
March 17th
Nikki Cooper (Swansea University) “Colonial Zoning and French Urban Planning”
Wednesday 15 October 2008
Tuesday 14 October 2008
Dubai's Future
Dubai ranked No1 for potential
http://www.business24-7.ae/articles/...f3d617090.aspx
Dubai was one of the top destinations for the firms surveyed to establish a regional office in the next few yearsDubai ranked No1 for potential By Ryan Harrison on Friday, September 26, 2008 Dubai is the financial centre with the most potential among world cities, and the number one location for companies to open new offices, according to an influential survey. Dubai led the charge for the Middle East in the Global Financial Centres Index, which ranked the emirate ahead of Qatar and Bahrain as cities most likely to become more significant on the world stage in future.Singapore, Shanghai and Mumbai also did well on this score.Dubai beat Geneva, New York, Mumbai and London as places firms surveyed said they would establish a regional office in the next few years.In the main ranking of financial centres, London came first, followed closely by New York. Dubai was ranked as 22nd, up one place from the previous study.The bi-annual survey is commissioned by the City of London and calculated by the Z/Yen group based on surveys together with publicly available indices of financial activity, infrastructure and affordability.One New York-based asset manager, who replied to the survey, said: "Just watch out for Dubai over the next five years – it has huge amounts of capital and a real willingness to do what it takes to become a global centre." The survey added: "It seems that the rise in importance of Dubai has meant that other Middle Eastern centres, particularly Qatar and Bahrain, are also gaining a higher profile.Stuart Pearce, chief executive of the Qatar Financial Centre, said: "More and more financial services companies are looking at the Middle East and are seeing it as a place of strategic importance."Qatar rose two places in the survey to 45 and was one of the biggest gainers in terms of points."Dubai continues to generate a great deal of comment and many respondents see the recently created centre as having huge future potential," said the survey.London is still first among world financial centres but its lead over rival cities, particularly in Asia and the Middle East, was been dealt a severe blow from the fallout of the credit crunch. New York remained in second place, while Singapore climbed past Hong Kong into third place, followed by Zurich, Geneva and a resurgent Tokyo, which rose two places to seventh.The survey found that both London and New York had lost ground since February in the wake of financial crises and huge job losses in financial services.Stuart Fraser, head of policy for the City of London, said the gap between New York and the third place city is now the smallest it has ever been. "London and New York are the two global cities and they are going to remain the global cities for a while yet but [other centres] will close the gap a bit. Singapore and Dubai are recruiting people. That makes them look positive."The latest index covers 59 cities. The last surveys were taken in July, so they do not reflect the effects of the banking crises of the past month.The big losers in the overall rankings included Frankfurt, which fell three places to ninth, and Paris down six places to 20th. However, old Europe scored victories as well, particularly in Scandinavia. Copenhagen was the fastest riser, jumping six places to 38th; and Oslo came in 41st, up four places.Since last autumn, New York has performed consistently better than London on the survey part of the rankings, although London's superior ranking on the objective criteria put it on top overall. Mr Fraser said he believed New York racked up extra points on the survey consistently because its transit system made it an easier place to get around.
http://www.business24-7.ae/articles/...f3d617090.aspx
Dubai was one of the top destinations for the firms surveyed to establish a regional office in the next few yearsDubai ranked No1 for potential By Ryan Harrison on Friday, September 26, 2008 Dubai is the financial centre with the most potential among world cities, and the number one location for companies to open new offices, according to an influential survey. Dubai led the charge for the Middle East in the Global Financial Centres Index, which ranked the emirate ahead of Qatar and Bahrain as cities most likely to become more significant on the world stage in future.Singapore, Shanghai and Mumbai also did well on this score.Dubai beat Geneva, New York, Mumbai and London as places firms surveyed said they would establish a regional office in the next few years.In the main ranking of financial centres, London came first, followed closely by New York. Dubai was ranked as 22nd, up one place from the previous study.The bi-annual survey is commissioned by the City of London and calculated by the Z/Yen group based on surveys together with publicly available indices of financial activity, infrastructure and affordability.One New York-based asset manager, who replied to the survey, said: "Just watch out for Dubai over the next five years – it has huge amounts of capital and a real willingness to do what it takes to become a global centre." The survey added: "It seems that the rise in importance of Dubai has meant that other Middle Eastern centres, particularly Qatar and Bahrain, are also gaining a higher profile.Stuart Pearce, chief executive of the Qatar Financial Centre, said: "More and more financial services companies are looking at the Middle East and are seeing it as a place of strategic importance."Qatar rose two places in the survey to 45 and was one of the biggest gainers in terms of points."Dubai continues to generate a great deal of comment and many respondents see the recently created centre as having huge future potential," said the survey.London is still first among world financial centres but its lead over rival cities, particularly in Asia and the Middle East, was been dealt a severe blow from the fallout of the credit crunch. New York remained in second place, while Singapore climbed past Hong Kong into third place, followed by Zurich, Geneva and a resurgent Tokyo, which rose two places to seventh.The survey found that both London and New York had lost ground since February in the wake of financial crises and huge job losses in financial services.Stuart Fraser, head of policy for the City of London, said the gap between New York and the third place city is now the smallest it has ever been. "London and New York are the two global cities and they are going to remain the global cities for a while yet but [other centres] will close the gap a bit. Singapore and Dubai are recruiting people. That makes them look positive."The latest index covers 59 cities. The last surveys were taken in July, so they do not reflect the effects of the banking crises of the past month.The big losers in the overall rankings included Frankfurt, which fell three places to ninth, and Paris down six places to 20th. However, old Europe scored victories as well, particularly in Scandinavia. Copenhagen was the fastest riser, jumping six places to 38th; and Oslo came in 41st, up four places.Since last autumn, New York has performed consistently better than London on the survey part of the rankings, although London's superior ranking on the objective criteria put it on top overall. Mr Fraser said he believed New York racked up extra points on the survey consistently because its transit system made it an easier place to get around.
Performance and the Global City
Performance and the Global City
ATHE Conference, New York, 2009 Call for Papers“Performance and the Global City”
We invite proposals for papers investigating the intersections of urban issues and performances of all kinds in cities beyond the Anglophone West. “Performance and the Global City” at the ATHE 2009 Conference in New York City will comprise a series of paper panels hosted across several working groups; papers will not be clustered according to geographic region, but will rather be grouped around the urban policy and culture issues that each addresses. We are especially interested in the relationship among theatre events, both formal and informal, and any number of urban culture issues, including: urban policy (its making and its implementation); civic architecture (both utopic and resistive); discourses of municipal and state power; underground city-building movements; homelessness and other forms of dispossession; racial tensions; other embodied tensions. The panels will ask the broad but focusing questions:
How does performance intervene in the making of the contemporary non-Western city?
How is that city “global,” and in what ways do theatre and performance help to shape the understanding of that term, and mitigate its defining tensions, outside of the Anglophone West?Specific topics to be addressed may include (but not be limited to):• performance, the urban, and mobility studies• border studies• east asian urban development• utopian architectures in “third world” global cities• performance and the Mediterranean city, past and present• traditional performances in contemporary urban contexts• indigenous peoples and the urban (in both Western and non-Western city spaces)• architecture and design for refugee communities• the civic impact of civil and global warPlease send 250-word abstracts, a 50-word bio, and your contact information to: dhopkins@mail.sdsu.edu; morr@mail.sdsu.edu; and ksolga@uwo.ca NO LATER THAN 24 OCTOBER 2008. Successful participants will be notified by 31 October 2008.
Convened by D.J. Hopkins, Shelley Orr, Kim Solga
More info about ATHEhttp://www.athe.org/about/faq
ATHE Conference, New York, 2009 Call for Papers“Performance and the Global City”
We invite proposals for papers investigating the intersections of urban issues and performances of all kinds in cities beyond the Anglophone West. “Performance and the Global City” at the ATHE 2009 Conference in New York City will comprise a series of paper panels hosted across several working groups; papers will not be clustered according to geographic region, but will rather be grouped around the urban policy and culture issues that each addresses. We are especially interested in the relationship among theatre events, both formal and informal, and any number of urban culture issues, including: urban policy (its making and its implementation); civic architecture (both utopic and resistive); discourses of municipal and state power; underground city-building movements; homelessness and other forms of dispossession; racial tensions; other embodied tensions. The panels will ask the broad but focusing questions:
How does performance intervene in the making of the contemporary non-Western city?
How is that city “global,” and in what ways do theatre and performance help to shape the understanding of that term, and mitigate its defining tensions, outside of the Anglophone West?Specific topics to be addressed may include (but not be limited to):• performance, the urban, and mobility studies• border studies• east asian urban development• utopian architectures in “third world” global cities• performance and the Mediterranean city, past and present• traditional performances in contemporary urban contexts• indigenous peoples and the urban (in both Western and non-Western city spaces)• architecture and design for refugee communities• the civic impact of civil and global warPlease send 250-word abstracts, a 50-word bio, and your contact information to: dhopkins@mail.sdsu.edu; morr@mail.sdsu.edu; and ksolga@uwo.ca NO LATER THAN 24 OCTOBER 2008. Successful participants will be notified by 31 October 2008.
Convened by D.J. Hopkins, Shelley Orr, Kim Solga
More info about ATHEhttp://www.athe.org/about/faq
Global Cities on Radio 4
I was interviewed by BBC Radio 4 the other day for Background information about the global cities literature. There is a forthcoming 'Analysis' programme on Global Cities soon which will focus, in particular, on Mumbai. I advised them to also talk to Professor Peter Newman for a specific take on urban planning and world cities.
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