Vulnerabilities in the ‘Core'

Part of Rethinking Centres and Peripheries, an ESRC Research Seminar Series

This seminar is concerned with the changing landscape of East London and the Olympic legacy where raised public expectations over social housing, transport and other infrastructure improvements have implications for core/periphery spatial imaginaries and the ways in which cities are lived alongside them. This is seen in the drift of the City of London eastwards and the consequent ‘extension’ of the financial centre and the bubbles of art and cultural production in East London that co-exist with it. The second comes from the enhanced ‘superdiversity’ of East and South East London. Where does this leave core/periphery thinking? What people, objects and so on circulate along these routes and how might we best conceptualise these heaving mosaics? Are these spaces producing new social vulnerabilities and what forms do these take?

The Rethinking Centres and Peripheries research seminar series will contribute to important debates in the area of economic and urban geography, urban sociology, public policy, planning and environmental studies surrounding the uneven geographic development of cities especially in the wake of the financial crash of 2008. Lead by the Centre for URBan Research at the University of York (CURB) and with partners from Goldsmiths (Centre for Urban and Community Research) and Newcastle (Global Urban Research Unit) there will be a total of three seminars, one at each institution.

The research network that will develop around the series is based around two established and one new urban research centre each of which have complementary but distinct missions. The aim of the series is to discuss empirical research and conceptual work encouraging attention to common and important challenges for towns and cities in Britain today.

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31 May 2013	12:45pm - 6:00pm	apple google outlook

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