News & Events
We have moved !!
The Cities Institute has now moved to Stapleton House, 277-281 Holloway Road, London N7 8HN. Our telephone numbers have also changed. Please check our staff pages on this website to contact particular people or call ex 4142 to speak to our administrator Clare Redwood.
EU Funding Secured for Electric Mobility Network Project
A successful bid has been won from the EU Interreg IVB Programme for a 3 year project designed to foster e-mobility and the use of electric car transport across the North Sea region. Cities Insitute will be working with a network of local authorities, universities and not for profit organisations drawn from 7 EU countries. For further details
Cities Institute in the News
Dr Frances Hollis's 'workhome' research featured in the Evening Standard and on the University's website recently. See http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/lifestyle/article-23975166-working-from-home-is-a-social-phenomena.do and /news/latest-news/2011/august/home-is-where-the-work-is.cfm
Professor Graeme Evans was interviewed by the BBC as part of a programme about the local job opportunities that may or may not arise from the Olympic Games. See http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-14378716
'Tech City 'Research Launched
Research undertaken by the Cities Institute on the inner East London 'creative digital' industry cluster was launched at the Digital Shoreditch Festival on 3rd May attracting considerable attention from policy makers, the meida and academia interested in the growth of what is being branded as East London's 'Tech City'. For a copy of the report..Learn more about what's happening from local firms in the area from our You-tube clips http://youtu.be/PpsNHJyR8cA (4 mins) and http://youtu.be/C87KI5YkVrA (10mins)
Research Network Grant
Cities has been awarded a 2 year grant by the Regional Studies Association to establish a research network on Mega-Events and Regional Development. For further details
Living Places
Cities Institute has been commissioned to undertake a detailed mapping and place-making strategy in L.B.Havering aspart of the national Living Places initiative. The study builds on the methodology developed for the national Cultural Mapping toolkit undertaken for the DCMS
www.culture.gov.uk/what_we_do/research_and_statistics/7290.aspx#Culture
Tescos Contract Won
Tescos have chosen the Cities Institute to evaluate their latest Community Alcohol Project - an initiative designed to work with local retailers, schools and youth groups to reduce the consumption of underage drinking. For details
AHRC Connected Communities Grant
A knowledge exchange grant has been awarded under this cross-research Council programmee programme to Cities Institute on the use of spatial and visualisation methods for community engagement. The award will fund 3 workshops to be held in London, York and Dundee, with
partners, the University’s of York and Abertay.
Forthcoming Events
Professor Worpole will be giving the following talks:
- 'The Jewish East End in the Radical 1930s, Ken Worpole in conversation with Rachel Lichtenstein, 13 December 2011 7.30pm, Bishopsgate Institute, 230 Bishopsgate, London EC2M 4QH, www.bishopsgate.org.uk
Cities Institute is organising a panel at the Association of American Geographers conference in New York (24-28 February 2012) on the theme of:
‘Mega-Events - from Eventful Cities to Regional Development’ Five international presentations range from mega-events in China and Qatar to London and NW England. Graeme Evans will present a joint paper with Ozlem Edizel on London2012.
Events details: www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting/about_the_meeting
Recent Events
Graeme Evans was among a panel of experts speaking at a roundtable discussion on Tech City entitled "Place and Space:What’s happening in East London?" A summary of the discussion is now available online here:http://www.policyconnect.org.uk/apdig/design-and-tech-city
Over 50 people attended a 1 day conference on 'Events Management' organised by Cities Institute on 14th September. The presentations can be downloaded here:
New Publications
Joan Smith (with Muhic Dizdarevic )(2011) Young Homeless People in the Czech Republic: A Comparative Perspective, European Journal of Homelessness 5(1) 67-85
Sue Bagwell (2011) 'The role of independent fast-food outlets in obesogenic environments: a case study of East London in the UK' Environment and Planning A 41 pp2217-2236
Luciana S. Esteves., Brown, J.M.; Williams, J.J. & Lymbery, G. (2011).
Quantifying thresholds for significant dune erosion along the Sefton
Coast, Northwest England. Geomorphology, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X11001085
Luciana S. Esteves; Williams, J.J. & Brown, J.M. (2011). Looking for evidence
of climate change impacts in the eastern Irish Sea. Natural Hazards
and Earth Systems, 11, 1641-1656. http://eproceedings.worldscinet.com/9789814355537/9789814355537_0052.html
Luciana S. Esteves and Williams, J.J. (2011). Characterising the impact of
significant dune erosion along the Sefton Coast, NW England. Coastal
Sediments’11, 684-697. http://www.nat-hazards-earth-
Graeme Evans 'Cities of Culture and the Regeneration Game' London Journal of Tourism, Sport and Creative Industries Vol 5 (6)
Graeme Evans (forthcomming) ' Events, cities, and the night-time economy' in Page, S (ed) Handbook of Events, Routledge.
Jo Foord – ‘Creative London: New Directions’, PLANERIN 1/2011, Creative Economy as an Urban Challenge (English/German)
Steve Shaw - ‘Marketing ethnoscapes as spaces of consumption: Banglatown — London's Curry Capital’, Journal of Town & City Management 1(4)
Maddy Coy, Liz Kelly, Janet Bowstead, and Jo Foord, (2011)'Roads to Nowhere? Mapping Violence Against Womens Services' in Campbell, C (eds), Violence Against Women,
Annual Report & Review
Cities Institute's Annual Report & Review is now available in digital (www.citiesinstitute.org/news) and print form from Clare Redwood: c.redwood@londonmet.ac.uk
For more details of past and recent publications see our Publications page.
