Annual Lectures
2024
Urban metabolism redux
Professor Matthew Gandy presented the 2024 Annual Lecture, “Urban metabolism redux”, at the RGS-IBG conference in London.
Abstract
Metabolic readings of urban space point in at least four different analytical directions: the post-war machinic city of techno futurism, modelling, and managerial control, extending to interest in materials flow analysis, industrial metabolism, and neo-Luhmannian interest in autopoietic dimensions to spatial complexity; recent elaborations of the classic nineteenth-century analysis of metabolic rift via Liebig and Marx; an emphasis on the city of flows emerging from the mutual entanglement of capital, the human body, and a variety of material infrastructures, developing in particular under the aegis of neo-Marxian urban studies from the 1990s onwards; and more recent frameworks that emphasise the co-existence of multiple metabolic pathways, the presence of multispecies metabolic entanglements, and multiscalar conceptions of urbanisation. In this presentation I will explore the possibilities for a conceptual synthesis that might contribute towards an embodied, multi-subjectival, and historically situated reading of urban space.
2023
2023 Annual Lecture – Professor Jennifer Robinson
Professor Jennifer Robinson presents the 2023 Urban Studies Annual Lecture, “Dimensions of Urban Development Politics: Transcalarity, Circuits, Territories”. This lecture was chaired by Doctor Karen Coelho at Urban ARC.
2022
2022 Annual Lecture – Professor Karen Seto
Professor Karen Seto presents the 2022 Urban Studies Annual Lecture, “21st Century Urbanisation and Grand Challenges for Global Sustainability”. This lecture was chaired by Professor Yingling Fan at the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference.
2021
2021 Annual Lecture – Professor Edward Glaeser
Professor Edward Glaeser presents the 2021 Urban Studies Annual Lecture “Cities in an Age of Pandemic”.
2020
2019
To extend: Temporariness in a world of itineraries
Dr AbdouMaliq Simone presented the 2019 Urban Studies Annual Lecture “To extend: Temporariness in a world of itineraries” at the RGS-IBG conference.
Read the open access paper here.
2018
Neighbourhood effects and beyond: Explaining the paradoxes of inequality in the changing American metropolis
Professor Robert J Sampson presented the 2018 Urban Studies Annual Lecture “Neighbourhood effects and beyond: Explaining the paradoxes of inequality in the changing American metropolis” at the AAG conference.
Read the paper here.
2017
2017 Urban Studies Annual Lecture – Professor Lily Kong & Orlando Woods
Professor Lily Kong presents the 2017 Urban Studies Annual Lecture, “The Ideological Alignment of Smart Urbanism In Singapore: Critical Reflections on a Political Paradox”.
Read the lecture here.
2016
2016 Urban Studies Annual Lecture – Jamie Peck
In 2016 the Urban Studies AAG lecture “Transatlantic City” was delivered by Prof. Jamie Peck and was chaired by Andrew Cumbers.
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