Author: Oli
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Media City by Scott McQuire, a review
Just a very quick post to point you in the direction of one of my recent book reviews that has been published on the Urban Geography Research Group’s website. The book, Media City by Scott McQuire is a great book for those studying cities and their visualisation, representation and identification in…
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My kind of town: Ode to the crucible of modernism, Chicago
Stepping off the Loop onto street level in Chicago is an attempt to navigate through one of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe‘s dreams. The canyons of steel, glass and concrete are striation par excellence, linearising not only the spatiality around you, but your psychological satnav. Left, right, forward or back,…
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GaWC Workshop and Annual Lecture, 28th April: Line up
We have finalised the line up for the Globalisation and World Cities (GaWC) ‘Cities of the Creative Economy’ workshop on the 28th April 2010. The day includes the GaWC annual lecture by Professor Andy C Pratt of the Centre for Culture, Media and Creative Industries (CMCI), King’s College London, with his talk entitled…
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The Urban Communicate: From T-Mobile to the Love Police via the Reichstag
Having just been reading up on the ‘Media City’ (the academic fundamentals of which are articulated very acutely by Scott McQuire’s 2008 book, which I have just finished reviewing for the Urban Geography Research Group), the ways in which technology, consumption, networks and the city collide in contemporary society are becoming increasingly apparent,…
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The BBC and the Body Culturik
Having just attended a seminar at Demos regarding the ‘Politics of Cultural Participation‘, then listening to the speech which was given by Margaret Hodge, it was hardly surprising the speed at which the discussion focused on the ‘arts for arts sake’ debate, given the talk of public spending cuts. Without reiterating the argument…
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GaWC workshop and Annual lecture
Another call for papers… The Globalization and World City Research Centre (GaWC), based in the Geography Department at Loughborough University is hosting a workshop for young researchers and postgraduates on the creative economy and the city on the 28th April 2010 at Loughborough University. We will be looking for presentations…
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CFP RGS-IBG 2010: “Urban Subversions: Conceptualising alternative urban pastimes in the modern World City”.
Call for Papers: Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference, 1st – 3rd September 2010, RGS, London. Session conveners: Oli Mould, Department of Geography, Loughborough University. Bradley Garrett, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway. Sponsors: Urban Geography Research Group Geographies of Leisure and Tourism Research Group Discussant:…
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Visualising Cities: Part 5… Get Lost.
Well, I never thought that my visualising cities series would be one of the more popular posts on my blog, but then if you put a reference to the women in the red dress from The Matrix in a blog, you are bound to see the hit counter rise… Google…
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Toward a utopia of difference?
Having been looking into the realms of urban subcultures for the past 12 months (mostly through parkour, but I find myself constantly amazed by people’s creativity and innovate capacity in their usage of urban space), I recently re-read David Pinder’s book, Visions of the City, as it is a fantastic…
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