News & Events
Culture and sport physical asset mapping toolkit launched
On 18th August the Culture and Sport Evidence programme (CASE) Culture and sport physical asset mapping toolkit was launched. Produced by the Cities Institute in conjunction with TBR the toolkit is designed to guide data collection activities undertaken by public-sector bodies and
other stakeholders. It provides a systematic and standardised approach to the collection and description of cultural and sporting assets. The toolkit can be downloaded from this link:
http://www.culture.gov.uk/what_we_do/research_and_statistics/7290.aspx#Culture
DVD on Homeless Youth: Early Intervention in the UK available soon
This DVD produced by Cities Dr Joan Smith as part of the EU Framework 7 funded project Combating Social Exclusion Among Young Homeless Populations (CSEYHP) will be available free of charge from the Cities Institute. For details ...For a copy email c.redwood@londonmet.ac.uk
Institute Director appointed Visiting ‘Extraordinary' Professor at Maastricht University
Graeme Evans has been appointed a Visiting ‘Extraordinary Professor of Culture and Urban Development’ at Maastricht University, The Netherlands.GThis is a three year joint initiative by the Maastricht city council and the university to develop a research programme around the city’s bid to host European Capital of Culture in 2018.
House of Commons Exhibition
Graeme Evans presented an exhibition of our SECOA project at the million+ group of universities' Annual Parliamentary Reception held at the House of Commons on 29 June. Speakers at the event inlcuded Higher Education Minister, David Willetts, sponsor Tom Blenkinsop MP, NUS president and several MPs elected for the first time. Graeme discussed the SECOA project on coastal cities and climate change with David Willets - who is MP for
Havant, Hants - one of the case study sub-regions being investigated as part of the study. www.millionplus.ac.uk
Forthcoming Events
Book Launch Professors Leonie Kellaher and Ken Worpole are two of the authors of chapters in the book, The Matter of Death: space, place and materiality, published to be launched by Palgrave Press at 5.30 pm on Friday, 17 September in Room T120 in the Tower Building, LMU. For details of launch.
Professor Ken Worpole will be speaking on hospice design at St Joseph's Hospice, Hackney on Sunday, 19 September 2010, as part of Architecture Open House Weekend.
Graeme Evans will be delivering a keynote presentation at the Cities and creativities, 10th Urban Studies Week,University of Lleida, Spain. 15-17 September
Graeme Evans will be delivering a keynote presentation at the Capacity Building - New Emergent Markets 2010 and Beyond – Opportunities and Challenges, International Alliance of Cultural
and Creative Industries 3rd Annual Symposium (UK, China, Australia), House of Lords, 30 September
Graeme Evans will be delivering a keynote/panel presentation at the Urban Connections, Maastricht Debates, Maastricht University 6-7 October
Graeme Evans will be delivering a keynote presentation at the Creative City, 5th
international conference in Urban Planning, Grenoble University, France, . October 20-22
Sue Bagwell, (with Graeme Evans and Jo Foord) will be presenting a paper on 'Creative Clusters & City Growth', and the RENT XXIV conference, University of Maastricht, November 18-19.
Recent Events
Academics and policy-makers from across Canada heard presentations from Graeme Evans, Leonie, Kellaher, Juliet Solomon, Steve Shaw and Ken Worpole on their research on older people and housing, the urban environment, transport and healthcare design. The event brought together researchers from other HEIs, including King’s College, the OU, Warwick, UCL and Heriot Watt universities. The programme was sponsored by the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, the Canadian High Commission (who hosted an afternoon session and evening reception) and British Council Canada. A return event will be held later this year in Canada when Cities team will visit their counterparts. See for presentations www.sparc.ac.uk/workshops/2010-03-08-age-supportive-built-environments/programme.asp
Dr Joan Smith organized a one day research event on her ‘Combatting Social Exclusion Among Young Homelessness People’ European (EU FP7) project, presenting her research findings to a group of over 50 youth homeless an social policy experts and agencies from across the UK. A toolkit and video ‘Early Intervention in the UK’ produced with and for young people and agencies was demonstrated by Joan and co-researcher Nora Duckett, including voiceovers by LondonMet students from the Netherlands and Portugal (for use by our EU partners in the project). For more details on the project: http://www.movisie.nl/118836/eng/
Graeme Evans presented at the invitation of the Shanghai 2010 EXPO committee on the theme of cultural heritage and urban regeneration. He also presented at the EU-China Science week in Shanghai on the SECOA Urban Coastal Cities and Climate Change project (funded under the EU FP7 Programme), and at two Cafe Scientifique events in Nantjing and Nantong under the British Council’s Ambassadors for Climate Change programme. EXPO details: http://en.expo2010.cn/
New Publications
Frances Holliss 'From Longhouse to live/work unit; parallel histories and absent narratives'.
in Ed Peter Guillery (eds)(2010) Built from Below; British Architecture and the Vernacular, Routledge.
Joan Smith (2010) 'Capabilities and resilience among people using homeless services' Housing, Care and Support 13 (1) pp9-18
Maddy Coy, Liz Kelly, Janet Bowstead, and Jo Foord, 'Roads to Nowhere? Mapping Violence Against Womens Services' in Campbell, C (eds), Violence Against Women, forthcoming Jan 2011
Graeme Evans, 'New Events in Historic Venues: A Case of London' Rivista di Scienze del Turismo, 2, 149-166
Graeme Evans, (forthcoming)'London 2012' in R & M Gold (EDS) (2010) Olympic Cities: City Agendas, Planning and the World Games 1896-2012
Jo Foord (2010) (forthcoming 2010) ‘Mixed use trade-offs: how to live and work in a ‘compact city’ neighbourhood’, Built Environment 36(1) Special ‘Compact City Revisited’ issue
For more details of past and recent publications see our Publications page.
