Category: Human Geography
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Conceptualising Fictional Cities
Technology is reproducing cities very rapidly. Or shall I say producing cities? Not artificial cities, but experiential cities that are pure hyper-reality, a simulacrum space par excellence (to mesh Baurdiallardian and Deleuzian language). Reproducing cities is as easy as driving a car with a camera mounted on top and putting the…
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Somewhere between eclecticism and inter-disciplinarity….
In researching my latest working theoretical (co-authored) paper on the network paradigm, I recently reread Gernot Grabher‘s paper entitled “Trading routes, bypasses, and risky intersections: mapping the travels of ‘networks’ between economic sociology and economic geography“. The paper was in a Geography journal (Progress in Human Geography) and describes the…
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Global Urbanist post
Another quick pointer toward Global Urbanist, for whom I have recently written an article. The post briefly discusses the Creative City concept and the problems with ranking them. This forms part of my wider writings on the city, and I will be speaking on the topic in Istanbul in November,…
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Video lectures worth taking the time to watch… Part 2
It’s been a long time since I posted the first set of video lectures, but I’ve been accruing a few more since then so thought it pertinent to post a second set. These are an eclectic bunch, but encapsulate the rhizomic essence of modern day phenomena and resonate with my own…
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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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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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