UCL Urban Lab Annual Lecture
Date:
Time: 18:15 - 20:00
Organiser: UCL Urban Laboratory
Location: London
Topical area: Arts and culture, The global urban agenda
Description:
In Le droit a la ville and La revolution urbaine Henri Lefebvre projected the urban trajectory of his day into the Sci-Fi imaginary of Isaac Asimov's remarkable Foundation saga. Lefebvre had already begun hinting at a new reality: not just of expanding cities, nor even of a new urban reality, but something vaster and more immense again: planetary urbanization.
Today, four decades on, Asimov's extraterrestrial universe seems closer than ever to home: planetary urbanization is creating a whole new spatial world (dis)order. But how to reclaim the shapeless, formless, and apparently boundless metropolis as a theoretical object and political object of progressive struggle?
Dr Andy Merrifield's recent publications have included Metromarxism: A Marxist Tale of the City (2002), Guy Debord (2005), Henri Lefebvre : A Critical Introduction (2006) and Magical Marxism: Subversive Politics and the Imagination (2011).
This lecture will be the third in a series jointly organised by UCL Urban Laboratory and the journal CITY with the support of the Bartlett School of Planning.
http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/planning/
How to attend:
5 October 2011, 18.15.
UCL Christopher Ingold Auditorium, 20 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AJ
Public lecture – all welcome. No RSVP necessary – first-come, first-served.
Enquiries: urbanlaboratory@ucl.ac.uk
