📢 @UCL Urban Studies MSc students support the ongoing UCL-UCU Stop the Destruction of Higher Education action 📢

'Simultaneously inside and outside' by Sidra Ahmed. Sidra is a PhD candidate and an urban geographer looking at the dramatic upward growth in London’s built environment over the last two decades Part of the UCL Geography #ResearchImages Competition

'Pop-up culture in Rayong, Thailand' by Poom Polachan Activities like this market in Rayong, Thailand help increase the use of public and private spaces, transforming local economies, social lives and tourism. Part of the UCL Geography #ResearchImages Competition

PSA: now that you can submit your thesis as a pdf there’s nothing to stop you printing the final version as an A5 paperback book… #PhDone

Great panel discussion last night organised by PhD student Sidra Ahmed and Dr Andrew Harris on the Shard's relationship with 21st-Century London Yesterday marked exactly a decade since the TheShardLondon was inaugurated Thanks UCL School of Management, UCL Urban Laboratory & ubel-dtp for your support

UCL Geography UCL Urban Laboratory PGTA Opportunities 2022/23 MSc Urban Studies core modules: Urban Imaginations Cities, Space & Power Urban Practices Further Info: ucl.ac.uk/pg-teaching-op… Please contact andrew.harris[at]ucl.ac.uk (Course Convenor) with any questions

Really excited to say I'll be on university challenge this coming year! You can catch me (+ my wonderful teammates ofc) on the 17th October, 8:30pm

Yesterday I passed my PhD viva with minor corrections! Chuffed. Thank you so much Łukasz Stanek and @WardyKG1969 for your supervision over 5 years, and to Nick Phelps and Léa-Catherine Szacka for reading and examining!

📣 We are happy to announce the Urban Miscellanea 21/22 online anthology! ⬇️ drive.google.com/file/d/1p5wz4a… From poetry to photography to embroidery, works responded to 21/22’s twin themes: emergency urbanism and urban rhythms. Our warmest thanks to the contributors for their work.

Excellent UCL Geography talk today from Nathaniel on his research and creative practice on the history and everyday things of London’s White City…

We’re saddened to hear about the passing of our friend and frequent FA contributor Leijia Hanrahan. In celebration of her life, we’ve collected some of her writing and words that have appeared on our site.

My 'Fragments of the City' book is now available to freely download here. The book explores how paying attention to fragments might allow us to understand and change urban worlds: dro.dur.ac.uk/38576/1/38576.…

Meet Yifan Li, a recent graduate of our MSc Urban Studies programme, who's interest in architecture and politics led her to pursue her studies looking at the intersection between buildings an people. Read her #StudentTestimonial. #ucl #universitycollegelondon #uclgeography

It was an absolute honour to be involved in this generative archival initiative! 🙏🏾🙇🏾🖤

Intern with WWF Cities on urban climate policy and advocacy jobb.wwf.se/en-GB/jobs/326…

Great piece in TiBG by Henry Hin-yan Chan drawing on MSc dissertation research rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

For Sidecar, Owen Hatherley reviews Matthew Gandy's 'Natura Urbana': 'Can we create the sort of wild, complex, interstitial urban spaces that Gandy favours, as opposed to simply waiting for them to emerge through accidents of creative destruction?' newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

UCL's Research Opportunity Scholarship supporting BAME PhD students: ucl.ac.uk/scholarships/u…

New podcast: Lowlines A sonic scrapbook, a passport to roam, following a pull to tune into the pulse of place. Hosted by Urban Lab alumna Petra Barran (Urban Studies MSc, 2010). Listen to the first episode on 06 February. Listen here: low-lines.com

Yesterday with @leahlovett from UCL Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment for the MSc Urban Studies alumni we were at Hampstead Heath walking with trees in the posthuman City 💚 Jacob Fairless Nicholson