City Seminar

Alternate Tuesdays, 17.00 - 19.00 during term time
CRASSH, Seminar room SG2, Ground floor (during Easter Term)
Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, CB3 9DT

Conveners

Gruia Badescu (Department of Architecture)
George Carothers (Department of Geography)
Viesturs Celmins (Social Anthropology)
Andrew Hoolachan  (Department of Architecture)

Faculty Advisors

Dr Wendy Pullan (Director of the Martin Centre for Architectural Studies and Urbanism, Department of Architecture)
Professor Andrew  Webber ( Professor of Modern German and Comparative Culture, Head of Department, Dept of German and Dutch)


Cities have always reflected the human imagination; from Plato's Republic to Howard's Garden City. Some are planned while others grow incrementally, yet all are expressions of the imagination of those who govern, design, inhabit, contest, and compliment these urban spaces. As cities across the globe confront today’s challenges, variegated understandings of the urban condition converge to produce new visions, collaborations and contestations for the future. Today’s socio-economic realities inform new ‘urban imaginaries’, as individuals as well as institutions seek to envision an alternative urban future to meet the challenges of the 21st Century,

In 2012 -2013 the City Seminar continues to explore the city by examining the potential of the human imagination as it engages utopian and dystopian visions of urban environments around the world. Bringing together theorists and practitioners from diverse disciplinary backgrounds, City Seminar hopes to provide a platform for discussion, research and networking for an audience interested in all things urban.


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In addition to the CRASSH-webpage, you can find more information about  the City Seminar Group from their external blog: http://in-flexiblecities.blogspot.com/

(CRASSH is not responsible for the content of external internet sites)


 

Administrative contact: Esther Lamb (Graduate/Faculty Programme Manager)

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