Community Led Regeneration: the London Case
UCL has a long-standing relationship with Just Space, an umbrella organisation for community groups across London. Whilst the WHIG project is not explicitly working with them at this stage, their work is highly relevant to understanding the planning context of London...
Hamlet Without the Prince
Hamlet Without the Prince or Why We Need More Research on How Private Sector Actors See the World. I recently gave a paper in the Department of Urban Studies at the University of Glasgow on the subject of ‘Seeing Like an Investor’. The talk was based on a paper that...
Towards some clarification on financialisation?
Existing debates on ‘financialization’ in urban studies, and beyond, are intense. Given the nature of the WHIG project, we will inevitably be addressing the issue of financialization, financializing and financing head on. On Thursday 23 May, The Open University hosted...
Law at the Margins of the City
Law at the Margins of the City: a day on law and financialization, Birkbeck, London. Recent debates in urban studies on finance (and financialization) have highlighted new investors in urban development. Former UN special rapporteur on housing revisits London Luckily...
A new blogpost by @TunaTasanKok and @saraozogul, on the dangers of scapegoating property investors in urban knowledge is now online. Read it here:
https://urbanstudies.uva.nl/content/blog-series/property-investors-as-new-public-enemies.html?origin=RkIy9bW8Q4G0e%2FaGMRg%2FOA
Asha Best interviews AbdouMaliq Simone (@XazaarAdjame) on 'Improvisation, Southern Urbanism, and the Rhythms of the Everyday'
http://societyandspace.org/2019/06/17/on-improvisation-southern-urbanism-and-rhythms-of-the-everyday/