Defining the Urban: transdisciplinary views
Organiser: Deljana Iossifova. Supported by IDPM, cities@manchester, GURC and MARC
School of Environment, Education and Development, University of Manchester
This event is part of a larger project aiming to develop new, collaborative and transdisciplinary approaches to urban challenges.
The collaboration of researchers and practitioners with different disciplinary backgrounds is necessary and increasingly common in urban practice and research. However, the lack of a shared terminology and clear definition of the term 'urban' can make it difficult to progress a common agenda.
This event brings together the editors of and some of the contributors to the volume ‘Defining the Urban’ (Ashgate, forthcoming). They will provide and discuss working definitions of the term ‘urban’ and discipline-specific approaches to the city. At the end of the day, a round table will bring together all speakers to identify commonalities and divergences as well as future possibilities for common approaches to the urban.
Schedule and speakers (please note the change of venue):
University Place, Room 5.206
10.00 Introduction
Deljana Iossifova, Alexandros Gasparatos, Christopher Doll
10.15 Public Policy
Prof Allan Cochrane, Open University
11.00 Public Health
Dr Arpana Verma, University of Manchester
11.45 Geography
Dr Hyun Bang Shin, London School of Economics
12.30 - 13.30 Lunch
Humanities Bridgeford Street, Room G6
13.30 Architecture
Dr Deljana Iossifova, University of Manchester
14.15 Civil Engineering
Dr Panagiotis Angeloudis, Imperial College London
15.00 Metabolism
Dr Alexandros Gasparatos, University of Tokyo
15.45 Geospatial Techniques
Dr Christopher Doll, United Nations University
16.30 Complexity Science
Ulysses Sengupta, Manchester Metropolitan University
17.15 – 18.00 Round Table & Discussion
