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Read more at: UCR is proud to announce that two of its PhD candidates Andrew Hoolachan and Irit Katz have now submitted their PhDs. We wish them luck with their vivas.

UCR is proud to announce that two of its PhD candidates Andrew Hoolachan and Irit Katz have now submitted their PhDs. We wish them luck with their vivas.

8 October 2015

For more information on the candidates and their research, visit: http://www.urbanconflicts.arct.cam.ac.uk/people/irit-katz-feigis and http://www.urbanconflicts.arct.cam.ac.uk/people/andrew-hoolachan

Read more at: UCR PhD Candidate Irit Katz will present a paper entitled: Makeshift Migrant camps in European cities: the soft belly of Western urbanism at the Migrants in the City: New Dynamics of Migration in Urban Settings conference

UCR PhD Candidate Irit Katz will present a paper entitled: Makeshift Migrant camps in European cities: the soft belly of Western urbanism at the Migrants in the City: New Dynamics of Migration in Urban Settings conference

8 October 2015

The conference will take place at Culter's Hall, Sheffield on 13 October 2015. For more information visit: http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/smi/research/events/migrants-in-the-city

Read more at: New volume by Christine Weber entitled 'Social Memory and War narratives' in the Palgrave Studies in Heritage and Conflict series co-edited by UCR's Britt Baillie.

New volume by Christine Weber entitled 'Social Memory and War narratives' in the Palgrave Studies in Heritage and Conflict series co-edited by UCR's Britt Baillie.

13 July 2015

For more information on Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict or to submit a proposal please contact Brigitte Shull , Publisher (Literature). Palgrave Macmillan

Read more at: UCR PhD candidate Irit Katz publishes a new article on camps in Political Geography

UCR PhD candidate Irit Katz publishes a new article on camps in Political Geography

22 June 2015

To read the article, please click here .

Read more at: UCR's Lefkos Kyriacou published an article on football and conflict in Belfast entitled: 'A Patchwork City: Mapping the fan-bases of the major club’s in Northern Ireland’s capital' in issue 17 of Blizzard.

UCR's Lefkos Kyriacou published an article on football and conflict in Belfast entitled: 'A Patchwork City: Mapping the fan-bases of the major club’s in Northern Ireland’s capital' in issue 17 of Blizzard.

4 June 2015

To read the article please see The Blizzard .

Read more at: The City Seminar, co-convened by UCR's Hanna Bauman, with Wendy Pullan as a faculty advisor, will be hosting the 'Urban Research at Cambridge: end-of-year workshop for graduate students and early career researchers' on June 4.

The City Seminar, co-convened by UCR's Hanna Bauman, with Wendy Pullan as a faculty advisor, will be hosting the 'Urban Research at Cambridge: end-of-year workshop for graduate students and early career researchers' on June 4.

4 June 2015

During the Seminar eight of UCR's graduate students will present their work. Urban Research at Cambridge: end-of-year workshop for graduate students and early career researchers Click here for the Programme

Read more at: The African Heritage Challenges: Development and Sustainability conference co-organised by UCR's Dr. Britt Baillie featured a panel dedicated to HERITAGE AND THE 'AFROPOLIS'.

The African Heritage Challenges: Development and Sustainability conference co-organised by UCR's Dr. Britt Baillie featured a panel dedicated to HERITAGE AND THE 'AFROPOLIS'.

26 May 2015

The city was a leitmotif throughout the conference featuring in three of the keynote lectures, and papers on Durban, Tshwane and Asmara. You can listen to the keynote presentations from the HRG's African Heritage Challenges conference here . You can find an overview of the HRG African Heritage Challenges conference here ...

Read more at: Max Sternberg published a co-edited volume entitled Phenomenologies of the City: Studies in the History and Philosophy of Architecture (Ashgate, 2015)

Max Sternberg published a co-edited volume entitled Phenomenologies of the City: Studies in the History and Philosophy of Architecture (Ashgate, 2015)

18 May 2015

The book includes a chapter by Director Wendy Pullan entitled ‘Agon in Urban Conflict Some Possibilities’.

Read more at: Max Sternberg to present a paper entitled ‘Transnational memory sites? Urban transformation and shared representations of traumatic pasts in Polish-German border towns’

Max Sternberg to present a paper entitled ‘Transnational memory sites? Urban transformation and shared representations of traumatic pasts in Polish-German border towns’

18 May 2015

The presentation will be at the conference ‘Peacescapes: Exploring Landscapes of Peace and Peacebuilding’ held at the School of Geography, University of Oxford on 22 May 2015 .

Read more at: UCR's Britt Baillie's research on the heritage of Tshwane is quoted in Pretoria News.
UCR's Britt Baillie's research on the heritage of Tshwane is quoted in Pretoria News.

UCR's Britt Baillie's research on the heritage of Tshwane is quoted in Pretoria News.

1 May 2015

Dr. Baillie presented a paper entitled Contesting the Capital’s Cultural Heritage: The Politics of Public Space in Tshwane at the 'Changing capital cities in Latin America, the Caribbean and Southern Africa' conference hosted by the Capital Cities Institutional Research Theme at the University of Pretoria. Visit the...

Read more at: UCR's Gruia Badescu's paper 'Rethinking Urban Geopolitics: Post-War Reconstruction and Politics of the Past in Belgrade And Sarajevo' has won the American Association of Geographers prize for best student paper in European Geography.

UCR's Gruia Badescu's paper 'Rethinking Urban Geopolitics: Post-War Reconstruction and Politics of the Past in Belgrade And Sarajevo' has won the American Association of Geographers prize for best student paper in European Geography.

1 May 2015

Click here for the abstract of the winning paper.

Read more at: UCR's Andrew Hoolachan has co-authored with Prof. Mark Tewdwr-Jones in the Routledge RTPI manuscript 'Reconsidering Localism'.

UCR's Andrew Hoolachan has co-authored with Prof. Mark Tewdwr-Jones in the Routledge RTPI manuscript 'Reconsidering Localism'.

1 May 2015

Their chapter considers idealist and materialist constructions of scale and nature in the context of sustainable urban localisms. For more information click here .

Read more at: UCR's Britt Baillie is co-convening the African Heritage Challenges: Development and Sustainability, the Cambridge Heritage Research Group's annual Seminar at CRASSH, 15-16 May

UCR's Britt Baillie is co-convening the African Heritage Challenges: Development and Sustainability, the Cambridge Heritage Research Group's annual Seminar at CRASSH, 15-16 May

1 May 2015

Click here for more information.

Read more at: CRASSH City Seminar - Lent 2015 : The Margins of the City
CRASSH City Seminar - Lent 2015 : The Margins of the City

CRASSH City Seminar - Lent 2015 : The Margins of the City

16 January 2015

Seminars take place on alternate Mondays at 17:30 in Room SG1 of the Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, CB39DT. For more information visit www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/city-seminar 26 January at 17:30 EVACUATE Prof. Peter Adey (Royal Holloway, University of London) In this paper I explore how evacuation – the arts...

Read more at: Dr Michael Llewellyn-Smith has been a visiting scholar at the Centre for Urban Conflicts Research this autumn. His research interest is the exercise of power between different tiers of government in relation to planning policy
Dr Michael Llewellyn-Smith has been a visiting scholar at the Centre for Urban Conflicts Research this autumn. His research interest is the exercise of power between different tiers of government in relation to planning policy

Dr Michael Llewellyn-Smith has been a visiting scholar at the Centre for Urban Conflicts Research this autumn. His research interest is the exercise of power between different tiers of government in relation to planning policy

23 December 2014

Subsidiarity is the principle that a higher tier authority should only perform those tasks which cannot be performed by a lower tier authority. He has used a history of planning in the City of Adelaide in South Australia as a case study of subsidiarity. He observes that for a long period from 1840 the Adelaide City Council...

Read more at: New publication by UCR's Britt Baillie Baillie, B. 2014. Adjacencies and Urban conflict, in Creative Adjacencies - New Challenges for Architecture, Design and Urbanism (proceedings of the conference)

New publication by UCR's Britt Baillie Baillie, B. 2014. Adjacencies and Urban conflict, in Creative Adjacencies - New Challenges for Architecture, Design and Urbanism (proceedings of the conference)

3 December 2014

The publication is edited by Cooper F, Greene M, Pinheiro Machado D, Scheerlinck K & Schoonjans Y) and appears in Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Estudios Urbanos, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Chile) & Faculty of Architecture, KU Leuven (Belgium), pp. 26-32. Visit https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u...

Read more at: New Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict Series Co-edited by UCR's Dr. Britt Baillie. Proposals welcome!

New Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict Series Co-edited by UCR's Dr. Britt Baillie. Proposals welcome!

7 November 2014

For more information visit: https://www.academia.edu/8926546/Palgrave_Studies_in_Cultural_Heritage_and_Conflict

Read more at: Karol Kurnicki is a visiting researcher at the Centre for Urban Conflicts Research in the Michaelmas Term 2014/2015
Karol Kurnicki is a visiting researcher at the Centre for Urban Conflicts Research in the Michaelmas Term 2014/2015

Karol Kurnicki is a visiting researcher at the Centre for Urban Conflicts Research in the Michaelmas Term 2014/2015

17 October 2014

During his stay he will work with Dr Maximillian Sternberg on Centre’s Polish-German bordertowns research project. He is currently at the final stages of his PhD studies at the Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland. In his thesis Ideologies in a City: On the social production of space he attempts...

Read more at: Director of the Centre of Urban Conflicts Research made Head of the Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge

Director of the Centre of Urban Conflicts Research made Head of the Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge

14 October 2014

"I am delighted to become Head of Department at this time of growth and change in Cambridge’s Department of Architecture. Enhancing the contributions from our increasingly large number of graduate students and postdocs, the further development of new research and design teaching initiatives, and engaging with the...

Read more at: New Working Paper by Lefkos Kyriacou entitled 'Football Frontiers: Competition and Conflict in Belfast' available now

New Working Paper by Lefkos Kyriacou entitled 'Football Frontiers: Competition and Conflict in Belfast' available now

14 October 2014

Click here for the full list of Working Papers.

Read more at: Public Lecture, Department of Architecture, Cambridge, 27 September: Corviale, "an uncertain dam sub tegmine fagi" rooted in the Rome periphery
Public Lecture, Department of Architecture, Cambridge, 27 September: Corviale, "an uncertain dam sub tegmine fagi" rooted in the Rome periphery

Public Lecture, Department of Architecture, Cambridge, 27 September: Corviale, "an uncertain dam sub tegmine fagi" rooted in the Rome periphery

30 September 2014

Dr. Anna Irene Del Monaco, Department of Architecture, DRACO, La Sapienza University of Rome

Read more at: Public Lecture, Department of Architecture, Cambridge, 27 September: ‘Docks Reloaded’ - CSIAA approach
Public Lecture, Department of Architecture, Cambridge, 27 September: ‘Docks Reloaded’ - CSIAA approach

Public Lecture, Department of Architecture, Cambridge, 27 September: ‘Docks Reloaded’ - CSIAA approach

30 September 2014

Roberto Cherubini, Department of Architecture, La Sapienza University of Rome

Read more at: Metamorphoses of the Contemporary City: International Graduate Workshop 25-27 September 2014

Metamorphoses of the Contemporary City: International Graduate Workshop 25-27 September 2014

30 September 2014

Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge and the Department of Architecture, La Sapienza University of Rome

Read more at: Metamorphoses of the Contemporary City - International Graduate Workshop, Rome, May 2014
Metamorphoses of the Contemporary City - International Graduate Workshop, Rome, May 2014

Metamorphoses of the Contemporary City - International Graduate Workshop, Rome, May 2014

15 September 2014

Centre for Urban Conflict Research, Cambridge Dipartimento di Architettura e Progetto, Sapienza, Roma

Read more at: UCR's Irit Katz will present: Caravans, Shipping Containers, Mud Bricks and Corrugated Steel: Materiality of Ad Hoc Spaces in Israel/Palestine’, in the session on 'Ad Hoc Geographies', the RGS-IBG conference, London, 28 August 2014

UCR's Irit Katz will present: Caravans, Shipping Containers, Mud Bricks and Corrugated Steel: Materiality of Ad Hoc Spaces in Israel/Palestine’, in the session on 'Ad Hoc Geographies', the RGS-IBG conference, London, 28 August 2014

19 August 2014

For more information visit: http://conference.rgs.org/AC2014/188

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