Events
A series of monthly research seminars centered on the broad question on how we, as urban geographers and sociologists, can best contribute to the debates around the contemporary relationship between cities and social change.
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Såkalte svenske tilstander er mye omtalt om dagen, men hva kjennetegner norske tilstander? Og hva betyr sårbarhetsfaktorer og mulighetsstrukturer for utviklingen av byområder?
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Dette seminaret er dessverre avlyst. Vi kommer tilbake med ny tid for arrangementet.
What is green gentrification, and how can we best understand it?
How may area-based initiatives affect gentrification?
What is segregation, and how do we study it?
How do we build knowledge and capacity for change for a comprehensive housing policy?
Welcome to this seminar in the Cities & Society series with Professor William Solecki on the prospects for enhancing urban adaptation effectiveness.
What makes creativity and artistic practice flourish?
Since its establishment, Uber has upset the local mobility ecosystem in many countries and cities. In this seminar Dr. Juan del Nido will give a talk on Uber's conflict with the Taxi industry in Buenos Aires and its implications for urban mobility politics.
Welcome to this seminar and the Cities & Society seminar series with Professor Tone Huse on colonial architecture, urban planning and temporal displacement in the Arctic.
Welcome to this breakfast seminar in the Cities & Society seminar series: Fostering Sustainable Urban Futures: Building Equity into Climate Change Planning and Action, with Robin Leichenko, Professor of Geography at Rutgers University.
Coffee and light snacks will be served.
Social and ecological crises related to the Covid-19 pandemic and a changing climate have heightened the awareness of the entangled fates of humans and non-humans, from the individual body to the planetary scale. This awareness demands that we examine and question how humans coexist not only with nature but also with other species.
We are pleased to welcome you to the next event in the Cities & Society seminar series: Breakthrough Communities: Sustainability and Justice in the Next American Metropolis, by Dr. Paloma Pavel.
Etter en pause, ønsker vi igjen hjertelig velkommen til et arrangement i seminarserien Cities & Society. Vi har invitert to innledere som er opptatte av nabolagets betydning, men som har jobbet med dette på ulike måter.
Ingar Brattbakk, forsker ved Arbeidsforskningsinstituttet, OsloMet.
Ragnhild Augustsen, landskapsarkitekt og ansvarlig for podcasten Våre Steder.
(This seminar will be held in Norwegian only)
In this breakfast seminar in the Cities and Societies series, Professor Harald Rohracher from Linköping University will give a presentation based upon material from three Swedish cities which have set up ‘smart city’ experiments and pilot projects.
How does architecture contribute to the production of truly public spaces in the city today? What types of knowledge are needed, and are today's planning and decision-making processes suited for the design of socially inclusive public spaces in the city? Whose city is it really?
Jens Richter from Estudio Herreros will give the introductory talk to this Cities and Society seminar, followed by a panel discussion with invited architects and urban scholars.
In cooperation with UiO: Energy and the Science Library, we invite you to this Cities & Society seminar, with lunch. The main speaker will be Timothy Kevin Richardson, professor in urban planning at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences.
Welcome to the next seminar in the series Cities & Society. Christian Schmid from ETH Zürich / Future Cities Laboratory Singapore will present first results of the research project “Territories of Extended Urbanization” that explores and analyses a range of very different case studies across the globe.
Welcome to the next event of the Cities & Society seminar series: The Slow Violence of Displacement on the Gentrification Frontier by Phil Hubbard, Professor of Urban Studies, King's College London.
We are pleased to invite you to this Cities & Society seminar.
Karen A. Franck, Professor in the College of Architecture and Design at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, is visiting Cities and Society. She will give a talk titled: Is This Space Public? How Do You Know?
We are pleased to invite you to the next Cities & Society seminar.
Kurt Iveson, Associate Professor of Urban Geography at the University of Sydney, will present Crowds, clouds and ‘accumulation by datafication’: further adventures in the commodification of everyday urban life.
Plus panel discussion: See below for details
We are pleased to invite you to this Cities & Society seminar.
Håvard Haarstad, Professor of human geography and Director for the Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation at the University of Bergen will present "Urban sustainability and the problem of the built environment: reworking Forus Industrial Park"
We are pleased to invite you to the next event of the Cities & Society seminar series on Thursday, week 46.
Professor Brett Christophers of the Department of Social and Economic Geography, Uppsala University, will present "Putting financialisation in its financial context: transformations in local government-led urban development in post-financial crisis England"
We are pleased to invite you to the next event of the Cities & Society seminar series this upcoming Monday.
Professor Monika Buscher (Lancaster University, Dept. Sociology) will present "About Time: Changing mobilities and creative urbanism".
We are pleased to invite you to the next event of the Cities & Society seminar series: Towards a Global Urban Geopolitics - Bringing Geopolitics into the Mainstream of Comparative Urban Studies by Dr. Jonathan Rokem.