Cities News Cities Programme newsletter issue 16 Summer Term 2015

Teaching:

Ricky Burdett Günter Gassner David Madden Philipp Rode Fran Tonkiss Savvas Verdis

Administrator: Anna Livia Johnston New friends in a new city: Beirut field trip, image courtesy of Bianca Ryseck. T: 020 7955 6828

MSc student news For enquiries please email [email protected] This year's City Design Research Studio (2014-15), led by Professor All aboard: image of Beirut boat trip Fran Tonkiss, Dr Günter courtesy of Nicole Hofert. Website: Gassner and Dr David Madden, lse.ac.uk/LSECities/citiesProgramme This year’s Studio publication took the theme of the 'critical city' and focused on Tottenham, a Critical City, edited by MSc Cities News editor: district in the borough of Haringey students Aron Bohmann and Anna Livia Johnston in northeast . Tottenham is Melissa Chin was published at the a place where many of the crises end of June and the launch party of urban life are visible. It is the will be on 2 July. poorest neighbourhood in the most unequal borough in the capital. The MSc student group, together Many Tottenham residents with faculty members Günter experience numerous forms of Gassner and Fran Tonkiss, injustice, and many locals feel that travelled to Beirut 16-21 May the councilʼs regeneration plans 2015 for the graduate threaten to bring gentrification and programme's annual international displacement rather than social field-trip. Working in collaboration progress. The students’ challenge with colleagues based in the Neighbourhood Initiative at the was to understand this area without simplifying or stigmatising American University of Beirut, and At the Tottenham Super Crit, image it and to propose critical in the AUB’s Department of courtesy of Aude Lucien. interventions designed to support Architecture and Design, the Tottenhamʼs communities on their students explored processes of Diana Martínez (current MSc own terms rather than facilitating urban development in key sites in student) spoke on “Projects and their erasure. central Beirut, including: the actions around bike usage in Solidere redevelopment of the Barcelona” at the World Bike On 17 June the students and city's historic core, new residential Forum in Medellin, Colombia this Studio convenors took part in a developments in the Ain Mreisseh February. Her lecture presented "Super Crit" of their work on area bordering the AUB campus, the achievements, difficulties and Tottenham. The event, organised and the planned development of lessons of different projects to by the GLA for the 2015 London the Dalieh of Raouche seafront promote the bicycle in cities. She Festival of Architecture brought area to the west of the centre. The put emphasis on one of the together four leading schools field-trip included guided site visits projects where she was manager of architecture who were invited to by foot, bus and boat, as well as for five years, called Bicicampus: present their research, findings seminars with local urban experts. “Go to the University by bike”. and proposals for Tottenham to a More images from the trip will be Read her post for the blog This Big panel including Haringey councillor available soon on the Cities City: 8 Highlights from Medellin’s Alan Strickland and the studio Programme webpages. World Bike Forum 2015. leads of the four universities. Diana also lectured on “Planning of urban mobility and bicycle” at the Piloto University, America University and Colombian School Cities News of Engineering in Bogotá, Research Methods Lab: Art in the Colombia. Her presentation field: harvesting visual narratives explored conditions of mobility in in the dispersed city (2014). different cities and the role the bicycle plays in improving urban Omer Cavusoglu (2008, quality of life. On this lecture, researcher at LSE Cities 2008- Diana wrote the post “Three 2014) collaborated with Emre mobility challenges facing Bogotá” Arolat Architects, a leading Turkish for her blog Cities for us. Twitter: architectural firm with a new office @Citiesforus in London, to put together an

exhibition titled "ist-on situations" Informal development in Ulaanbaatar, at the RIBA, running between 2-30 image courtesy of Dominic Church June. The exhibition explored a parallel timeline between two of On July 5th, Miriam Fitzpatrick Europe’s great cultural capitals: (2004) will be presenting at the and London, looking at International Conference of major events that shaped the story Historical Geographers 2015 at the of urban development of the past Royal Geographical Society, two centuries in these two cities. London in a session on 'Distributed Omer was one of the two chief Landscapes; Centres and Edges consultants and provided its in American Planning'. Her paper London content. Omer continues will be on the subject of to work as an independent Propinquity and W. H. Whyte Diana Martínez (right)is presented with a consultant in urban planning and (1958-1988), for more see copy of Around the World in 80 Bicycles development, based in London. from editor Ximena Ocampo (class of 2012) webpage. for her winning images at the World Bike Forum. Tsu-Jui Cheng (2009) recently Dr Robin J. H. Kim (PhD 2010, completed a PhD with the now Research Fellow at UCL) has Accessibility Research Group at been appointed as Professor on Alumni news University College London and is Special Assignment at the now working as a research Graduate School of Urban & Real Karl Baker (class of 2010) is now associate in the AART-BC project Estate Studies, Hanyang Senior Consultant at MRCagney, at both UCL and the University of University, Korea, which transport and urban planning Salford. The AART-BC will specialises in comprehensive consultants in Auckland, New develop a platform to support research and practice on Zealand. His work focuses on people with reduced mobility to contemporary cities, offering economic evaluation of public navigate in the built environment. interdisciplinary postgraduate transport infrastructure projects, training programmes. integration of transport and land- As Team Leader for international use planning and economic Projects at the German Based in UCL Geography, Robin’s assessment of planning Sustainable Building Council major role is to widen academic regulations. (DGNB), Dominic Church collaboration with international (2001) presented a Gold Pre- institutions, and to supervise Dr Lawrence Bird (2000) Certificate to Maidar City in students by visiting Seoul practises urban design on TOD Ulaanbaatar. The certification regularly. He will also continue to and LID developments in process embeds benchmarks for focus on collaborative research Winnipeg, Canada. He teaches as sustainable urban development in projects on urban regeneration a sessional instructor at the the design of the new city, to be and comparative studies between University of Manitoba and, last located ca. 15km south of the UK and Korean cities. He advises year, at Harvard University. He capital. Planned to accommodate several major cities in Korea, also has a visual arts practise ca. 220,000 inhabitants on an area including Seoul and Incheon, focused on images of cities and of 163 square km, Maidar City helping them to establish geography, most recently the represents the keystone in a sustainable urban and architecture projection Transect at DRHA 2014 national intiative to meet the policies. in Greenwich. Recent publications challenges of extremely rapid include “Earth or World? Aerial urbanisation. The visit to Mongolia Bronwyn Kotzen (2014) has been Image and the Prosthetic concludes Dominic's missions for awarded a research grant from the Imagination”, in Architecture’s DGNB following his appointment to South African Presidency for a Appeal, Routledge (2015); the city of Lucerne as Project Lead project on 'Infrastructures “Beyond the Desert of the Real: for real estate development. of Separation' together with a Regenerative narratives in the research partner. The cityscape”, in Emerging country's profound socio-economic Landscapes, Ashgate (2014); challenges are reflected and and a blogpost for the LSE Field compounded in the apartheid-

Newsletter of the Cities Programme, LSE, Summer Term 2015 2 Cities News driven, spatial inequality of its students or alumni would like to cities; a reality which severely get involved please contact limits transformation and growth. [email protected]. Akin to mainstream global urban development practices, South Anjali Mittal (2008) is now African local government has Assistant Professor, Department of adopted large-scale infrastructural Architecture, School of Planning investment in order to reshape the and Architecture, Delhi. stark inequalities of the country’s urban centres. This regeneration Dr Olivia Muñoz-Rojas (PhD assumption has created a focus on 2009) continues publishing articles infrastructural planning and in English and Spanish on her blog investment which often results in a exploring issues of cities and unintended and unexpected gender, war and aesthetics, some consequences: the maintenance of of which have featured in the main historic orders of separation. The opinion section of El País. On 8 project therefore engages with March she launched OPINANTAS, how infrastructure regulates a new blog section for the written people’s action and behaviour opinion of women. Olivia gave a Congratulations to Katherine through an understanding of the paper on the role of politico- Robinson, who was awarded her mundane interactions between the economic ideology in modern city- PhD in March 2015. Her thesis, two on an everyday basis. making in LSE’s Economic History which was passed without The research aims to provide Department in February, and on corrections, is titled: An everyday place-specific data that the urban legacy of anti- public? Placing public libraries in government could use to change democratic regimes at the II London and , and is approaches to infrastructural International Seminar available to read via LSE implementation. The project will be Historiography and Anthropology ThesesOnline. She is now published and presented at a of Cities at Cáceres (Spain) on 29 working as a researcher on national conference in October. May. In early June she attended Triaging Values, an ESRC the OECD Forum in Paris. research project at Goldsmiths Sociology. Susan Parham (PhD 2008) has a new book, Food and Urbanism: Lindsey Scannapieco (2010) and The Convivial City and a her team at Scout (www.scout- Sustainable Future, out now with ltd.com) recently won the Knight Bloomsbury. Moving from the Cities Challenge Grant for a public table, kitchen, dining room, and realm installation in South home garden to the food market, Philadelphia on the perimeter of a townscape, green space, suburbs, vacant high school. The project peri-urban edges, wider seeks to use participatory design conurbations and rural regions, to explore the concept of a public Food and Urbanism explores the living room, see:

Help needed to transform this site, image urbanism connections between knightfoundation.org/grants/20155 courtesy of Paul McGann. food and place at a range of 0671. nested scales expressed in past Mobile Gardeners CIC, a social and present design and socio- Torsten Schroeder (PhD 2014) is enterprise set up by Paul McGann spatial practices. The book also now teaching at Eindhoven (2009) is making a community looks to methods for extending the University of Technology, where garden and social space in ‘gastronomic’ possibilities of urban he is Assistant Professor in Elephant and Castle in partnership space in future, bringing together Architectural, Design and with local residents. Paul says, sustainable placemaking research Engineering, Department of the ‘The space will be called Grow from a number of disciplines Built Environment. Elephant and our site is on New including urban design and food Kent Road. We need all sorts of studies, to urban sociology, This year Joshua Simoneau help, from building and gardening, geography and planning – with her (2012) authored the preliminary to organising events, publicity, own fieldwork on a range of competition of the Rotch Travelling fund raising etc. The project is an foodscapes used to highlight the Scholarship (the oldest scholarship unusual example of community led fundamental role food has to play of its kind in the US, more info interim use, and is an attempt to in shaping an increasingly urban here: www.rotch.org). create a shared outdoor room that world. Susan is Head of Urbanism encompasses a wide range of at the University of Hertfordshire. This year’s preliminary competition social activity that goes well focused on issues at the urban beyond the traditional definition of scale, asking competitors to a community garden.’ If any Cities address the street as a stage for

Newsletter of the Cities Programme, LSE, Summer Term 2015 3 Cities News public life and ultimately a place of housing co-authored with Peter belonging. The site chosen for this Marcuse. In April, Fran participated in the proposition was Winter Street in EUI-MPI Graduate Workshop on Downtown Crossing, located within Philipp Rode gave a presentation Migration, Politics, Diversity at the the Downtown Boston Business on ‘Going green: How cities are European University Institute, Improvement District (BID), an leading the next economy’ in the Florence, speaking on the theme area currently in the midst of an session on ‘The City as a Catalyst of cities, politics and citizenship. ongoing public realm improvement for Green Growth’ at the Future project seeking to enhance the Built 2015 annual Conference in In May, Fran spoke about pedestrian environment and Oslo, Norwary. This took place on ‘Austerity urbanism’ at the transform Downtown Crossing as 3 June and focused on the benefit Geographies of Austerity a place people go to rather than of climate friendly architecture and workshop at Durham University, pass through. urban development as well as how and in June gave a plenary talk on cities can be catalysts for smart, ‘Urban open source: space, Faculty news green growth. For more, see practice, knowledge’ at the Make website. City festival in Berlin: Professor Ricky Burdett http://makecity.berlin/ participated in the Designing City Professor Fran Tonkiss gave a Resilience two day summit at the public lecture on ‘Divided Cities: Also in June, Fran spoke on ‘The RIBA, London on 16 and 17 June. urban inequalities in the 21st social life of urban form: size, He took part in a session on century’ on 6 May 2015 at density, diversity’ at the Future of ‘Defining Urban Resilience’ on LSE. What kinds of cities are Places conference in Stockholm, Tuesday 16 June along with Jo da emerging as increasing bringing together researchers, Silva, Director of International urbanisation goes together with policy-makers, activists and Development at Arup, and Dr worsening inequality, why does practitioners in the lead-up to Nancy Kete, Managing Director at urban inequality matter, and what Habitat III, the third UN Rockefeller Foundation. is distinctive about urban Conference on Housing and inequalities now? Listen to/watch Sustainable Development: Dr Günter Gassner presented a the event podcast and video. http://futureofplaces.com/ paper at the 8th International Critical Theory Conference, 7 – 9 In May, an interview between Fran May 2015. The paper was entitled and the architect Krzysztof “La Madonna della Misericordia di Nawratek was published in Londra: Benjamin, Nietzsche and Krzysztof’s Radical Inclusivity: neoliberal urbanisation” and Architecture and Urbanism (dpr- revolved around a critical reading Barcelona, 2015), see webpage. of the use of religious imaginaries in developer-driven planning Fran also published ‘Afterword: processes in the City of London. economies of infrastructure’ in a special feature on infrastructure Dr Suzi Hall will be launching the edited by Hillary Angelo and 'Ordinary Streets' film made with Christine Hentschel in CITY 19/2- Sophie Yetton on 6 October 2015. 3: 384-91. The film explores diverse creative LSE Cities news practises on Rye Lane in Peckham, which remain illegible or The LSE Cities Executive Summer undervalued in the planning School short course ‘London and regeneration process. Global Cities - Governance,

Image of Sao Paolo courtesy of Tuca Viera. Planning and Design’ (29 June – 3 In March, Dr David Madden July), led by Professor Ricky organised an event on housing In March, Fran took part in the Burdett, Professor Tony Travers, and the neoliberal city at PEER international conference on ‘Other Dr Savvas Verdis and Philipp Gallery in London. In April, he gentrifications’ at the American Rode, draws on LSE Cities and presented a paper entitled University Beirut, the 2015 edition LSE London’s research work. It “Dispossession and the Ideology of the AUB’s City Debates annual will explore the longer-term of the Slum” at a conference on conference series, and bringing development of London (in the housing in the Global South at the academics, students and context of other global cities) so as Graduate School of Architecture, practitioners from Lebanon and the to provide students with an Planning and Preservation, MENA region together with understanding of the key Columbia University. In October he colleagues from Europe, North and challenges facing both mature and will lead a seminar at the South America. Fran took part in rapidly-developing metropolitan Wohnunsfrage Academy at the the closing conversation with Peter areas. For more on this and other Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Marcuse. Watch the session on LSE Cities news please see: Berlin. He is completing a book on YouTube. lsecities.net.

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