United Kingdom  

After a longish break, we are delighted to invite you to join our last three Urban Studies seminars for this academic year via Zoom. Our first presenter on 26 May is Dr Darja Reuschke from the University of Southampton on the topic "Entrepreneurial Creativity in the City".

Creativity, diversity, openness and buzz in cities have increasingly be regarded as important to city economic development. I will present two new approaches to understanding economic creativity in the city addressing first is the notion that a sense of bohemia is important to attract creative workers and entrepreneurs and second the notion of clustering of economic creativity. Findings from a small business study and tweet locations from creative entrepreneurs stress the importance of a diversity of neighbourhood types for creativity in the city. Practices of economic creativity are less spatially clustered in central parts of the city and more spatially distributed across the city according to tweet locations of creative entrepreneurs than studies that used business register data or cluster approaches suggested. Residential areas and home locations have a high incident of creative activities besides urban amenities and coworking spaces. Entrepreneurs are attracted to bohemian neighbourhoods both as places to live and to work.

Darja Reuschke is an Associate Professor in the Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton.

ZOOM link: https://uofglasgow.zoom.us/j/96190610609

Meeting ID: 961 9061 0609

Our ZOOM etiquette:

• Please join the Zoom meeting with your audio and video as we welcome an informal chat before the presentation (but if you are in an even slightly noisy environment, please keep your microphone muted unless you wish to contribute);
• Please switch off your video and sound during the presentation;
• During the Q&A, we welcome you switching your video so that we can see each other - but keep your microphone muted unless you wish to ask a question.

Future Seminars

4 June, 3pm - Claudio Acioly: “Slum upgrading and the Covid-19 experience” (provisory)

CLAUDIO is an architect and urban planner, a development practitioner with more than 30 years of experience in planning, design, management, implementation and evaluation of housing and urban development policies and projects in over 25 different countries. His career intertwined academic activities and professional practice. Claudio lectured, wrote and published extensively on several city and urban development topics, being a frequent keynote speaker in many important world conferences and symposia. He also worked as programme manager and technical advisor on urban planning and management, housing reforms, and city development strategies. He has occupied leading positions, e.g. Programme Director of the EU “International Urban Cooperation: Sustainable and Innovative Cities and Regions– Regional Action Latin America and the Caribbean (on going) and Head Capacity Building of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme, UN-Habitat (since 2012).  Claudio has always worked closely with decision and policy makers of governments, civil society organizations and community-based organizations. Adriana, join convenor of this seminar, like to say “Claudio is one who does not one who just write about other people doing”.

ZOOM link: https://uofglasgow.zoom.us/j/94473941371

Meeting ID: 944 7394 1371

17 June, 3pm - Dr Barend Wind: “The war-time urban development of Damascus: how the geography-and political economy of warfare affects housing patterns”

See abstract here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0197397519309464

Barend works as an Assistant Professor in Socio-Spatial Planning at the University of Groningen, NL. His research focuses on the institutional causes of the (un)affordability and (in)accessibility of housing. He seeks tools to solve housing crises based on theories of social and spatial justice, and has carried out spatial research in post-conflict contexts such as former Yugoslavia and Syria.

ZOOM link:  https://uofglasgow.zoom.us/j/95710282052

Meeting ID: 957 1028 2052