What is the city?

A form to be designed? An image to be projected? An object to be conserved? A community to be resourced? A structure to be diagnosed? An infrastructure to be maintained? A problem to be solved? An event to be narrated? A text to be read? A space where rights are claimed? A field to be activated?

And how do we approach the city? By submitting to it, celebrating, resisting, subverting, jamming?

We invite you to join us in questioning the city: to explore how it has been represented and diagnosed in the past; to encounter significant traditions of urban scholarship, both theoretical and methodological; to comprehend the variety of city lives and processes, both in western and other contexts; and to experiment in new modes of representation, analysis, and city building.

Please direct all academic queries to the Programme Director, Dr Richard Williams (r.j.williams@ed.ac.uk)

Please direct all administrative queries to the Programme Secretary, Dr Kirsten Phimister (k.phimister@ed.ac.uk)