News http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett-news-viewer/rss Welcome to the Bartlett, UCL's world-leading faculty for multi-disciplinary education and research for the built environment. admin 2011-07-14T11:49:35Z DPU at the 2nd CAN Regional Meeting and Workshop (Quezon City, 20-28 May 2013) http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/dpu/news/dpu-can Photo by ©Giorgio Talocci Planning for a socially just and sustainable development in the global south. Gynna F Millan Franco 2013-05-21T16:42:04Z 3rd year undergraduates shadow industry and local govt http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/planning/news/workshadowing On the 7th-21st May 2013 Bartlett School of Planning 3rd year students are work shadowing at the following companies and councils: Capita Symonds, Peter Brett Associates Tyms, Arup, CgMs Consulting, Urban Movement, URS, Farrells, London Legacy Corporation, UCL Sustainability, Savills, Broadway Malyan, Sturgis Carbon Profiling, Tibbalds, London Borough of Harrow, London Borough Wandsworth, London Borough of Westminster, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London Borough of Ealing, London Borough of Hackney. A big thank you to all these companies and councils for hosting BSP students and giving them a taste of where their degrees might take them. The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment. Janaki P O'Halpin 2013-05-20T14:59:13Z European Investment Bank (EIB) Signs MOU http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/cpm/news/europeaninvestmentbanksignmou New programme to benefit from support of Europe's largest international infrastructure investor The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment. Lucy Craggs 2013-05-20T12:34:21Z DPU summerLab 2013 series registration open! http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/dpu/news/dpu-summerlab-2013-series-news The Bartlett Development Planning Unit is happy to officially announce the launch of the DPU summerLab 2013 series . The 2013 series contains several innovations including the introduction of two Latin America destinations and our own backyard of London in addition to the consolidated initiative in Rome. This expansion is due in part to having received very generous scholarship funding support this year. Drawing on the progressive action-research ethos of the DPU in collaboration with local partners, the workshop series aims to leverage the reality of the city as a laboratory for developing socially responsive design and planning measures. It is intended to provoke, stimulate, and reconsider the role of designers and practitioners in promoting spatial justice. The workshops, geared toward students and emerging professionals, offer a vital testing ground for the proposing of contextual, hybridized spatial interventions embedded with socio-political agendas. The schedule of the DPU summerLab 2013 series is: Planning for a socially just and sustainable development in the global south. Gynna F Millan Franco 2013-05-20T11:46:47Z Bartlett Professor of Planning receives first prize for outstanding international impact http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/news/fulong-wu-esrc-award Fulong Wu , Professor of Planning at The Bartlett, was awarded first prize in the Outstanding International Impact category by The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) on 14 May. He received a trophy along with £10,000 to promote the economic and social impact of research. The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment. Brigid C B Marriott 2013-05-17T15:31:08Z Planning Professor presents at AAG Annual Meeting http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/planning/news/FulongWuAAGconference Fulong Wu recently presented at the Presidential Plenary of Association of American Geographers annual meeting which took place in Los Angeles in April. This year's event was very well attended, attracting about 9,000 delegates.  The presidential plenary addresses the theme of the conference and its annual meeting is becoming one of the largest conferences in the field of geography, urban studies and planning. Fulong Wu's presentation was on 'Emerging Chinese cities and the implication for global urban studies'. He reviewed the significance of China's urbanization and its development processes, and compared its socio-spatial patterns with those in urban studies in the western economies, and analysed the similarity and differences.  The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment. Janaki P O'Halpin 2013-05-17T10:14:00Z Warm welcome to our BHP Billiton Chair in Sustainable Global Resources http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/sustainable/sustainable-news/bhpb-chair It is with great pleasure that we formally welcome Prof Raimund Bleischwitz to the ISR team as the BHP Billiton Chair in Sustainable Global Resources. The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment. Katherine Welch 2013-05-15T13:32:18Z Practical Environment and Energy Efficiency CPD course launched http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/energy/news/shipping-cpd UCL, in collaboration with GL Reynolds and Lloyd's Register, is pleased to announce a new CPD course "Practical Environment and Energy Efficiency", 18-20th June. The aim of the course is to to aid companies in identifying strategies for complying with current and future environmental and energy efficiency legislation in a proactive, holistic and cost effective manner. Further details can be found in the course overview and timetable . The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment. Ellie Jones 2013-05-15T12:53:57Z CSH featured in Guardian article http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/graduate/news/csh_guardian_article Dr Katherine Curran, Research Associate at CSH, recently spoke about the project 'Heritage Smells!' at the Museums Showoff. The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment. Craig D Daraz 2013-05-13T14:26:42Z Bartlett Professor part of team on shortlisted project for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/news/bartlett-professor-shortlisted-project-aga-khan-award Murray Fraser, Professor of Architecture and Global Culture at The Bartlett School of Planning, and Vice-Dean of Research for the Bartlett Faculty, worked with the Palestine Regeneration Team (PART) on the Birzeit regeneration project which has just been shortlisted for the 2013 Aga Khan Award for Architecture. Their key contribution was to devise a new urban strategy which has revived the previously derelict historic quarter of Birzeit, a university town close to Ramallah. Welcome to the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL's world-leading centre for education and research in architecture. Jean Garrett 2013-05-13T11:01:24Z CSH PhD Student wins prize at UCL Digital Humanities workshop http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/graduate/news/ucl-connections-project George Neris, PhD student at the Centre for Sustainable Heritage, leads the project ‘UCL Connections’, which recently won £5,000 at the Digital Humanities prize workshop in April 2013. The workshop was organised by the Grand Challenge of Intercultural Interaction at UCL and was the conclusion of the UCL’s Digital Humanities Month. The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment. Craig D Daraz 2013-05-10T14:41:03Z ICIF launch "UCL to lead research into Infrastructure of tomorrow" http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/cpm/news/icif-launch-ucl-to-lead-research-into-infrastructure-of-tomorrow A consortium of Universities led by UCL were recently successful in being awarded funding to establish a Centre looking at the interdependencies of cross sectoral infrastructure. The International Centre for Infrastructure Futures (ICIF) will investigate the potential for innovative business models to incorporate these interdependencies of operational infrastructure assets, with a view to improve future investment. This will provide users and tax payers with better value for money. The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment. Lucy Craggs 2013-05-08T10:19:03Z Building Information Modelling (BIM) Academic Forum http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/cpm/news/building-information-modelling-BIM-academic-forum On 2nd May John Kelsey attended the Building Information Modelling (BIM) Academic Forum at Coventry University. The forum exists to explore the interaction of the rapid development of BIM, its deployment (or otherwise) by the UK construction industry and emerging government policy on incorporating BIM into its own procurement requirements and processes. The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment. Lucy Craggs 2013-05-07T10:25:25Z Innovation and replication in public organisation http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/cpm/news/innovation-and-replication-in-public-organisation Prof Andrew Davies recently presented his paper, with Lars Frederiksen and Andreas Hartmann, ‘Innovation and replication in public organisation: the Highways Agencies in England and the Netherlands’ for the Collaboratory on Global Projects (CGP) Seminar Series held at Stanford University. The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment. Lucy Craggs 2013-05-07T10:06:22Z Recruitment reopens - 2 fully funded LoLo CDT PhD studentships available http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/energy/news/Lolo-cdt-studentships-reopens For 2013-14, the UCL Energy Institute is offering  2 further fully funded studentships  (enhanced stipend of approx. £17,000 per annum tax free plus UK/EU fees) to eligible applicants, to be part of a total CDT year group of 6 students at UCL.  These four year studentships comprise both MRes and PhD programmes.   The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment. Jennifer Luk 2013-05-02T11:16:07Z Bartlett Professor helps plan for the future of Central London http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/planning/news/WestEnd_CommissionReport_Launch Yvonne Rydin, Professor of Planning, Environment and Public Policy at The Bartlett School of Planning, played an active role in the West End Commission which this week published a report outlining a plan to secure the future of the West End as a UK economic driving force and a great place to live in and visit. The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment. Janaki P O'Halpin 2013-05-02T10:34:32Z Bartlett Summer Show 2013 http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/news/bartlett-summer-show-2013 We are pleased to announce that this year's Summer Show will be opened by the renowned French architect, Claude Parent , on Friday 21 June 2013.  Welcome to the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL's world-leading centre for education and research in architecture. Michelle Lukins Jean Garrett 2013-05-02T10:27:15Z Life in the City is Essentially One Giant Math Problem http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/casa/news/2013-05-01_math-problem Mike Batty here at UCL, Geoff West, Luis Bettencourt and Jose Lobo at the Santa Fe Institute, and Steve Koonin at the Center for Urban Science and Progress at NYU are quoted in Jo Adler’s article in May’s Smithsonian Magazine where he reports on the emerging field of quantitative urbanism. This is a nice, neat summary of the fact that as cities get bigger, they change qualitatively, regularly as some suggest for systems of cities in large continental land masses like America and with much more volatility in systems like Britain which we are studying here in CASA where primate cities or ‘dragon kings’ like London appear to dominate everything in sight. The article suggests somewhat apocryphally that “many aspects of modern cities can be reduced to mathematical formulas” but the point is that there are many emerging relationships in this science of cities that might be exploited in new ways when we intervene in the growth and structure of cities through planning. For the first time, we have a glimmer of an understanding of the limits to which we can intervene without destroying the very organism that we seek to change. Jo Adler focuses on the way agglomeration economies get greater, scale superlinearly as cities get bigger in that more and more interactions between more and more specialized people seem to interact. This leads to more than proportionate wealth and innovation but more than proportionate increases in crime and disease. Cities like many systems thus represent a tradeoff between more good and more bad as they grow. The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment. Helen C Goodwin Martin Austwick 2013-04-30T17:42:53Z UCL-Energy Professor joins Airports Commission’s External Advisory Panel http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/energy/news/andreas-schafer Professor Andreas Schafer , Chair of Energy and Transport at the UCL Energy Institute, has accepted an invitation to join the Airports Commission’s External Advisory Panel. The Airports Commission was established in the Autumn of 2012 by the Prime Minister David Cameron to assess the UK’s future aviation capacity and connectivity needs and to make recommendations as to the best options for meeting any need for additional capacity. The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment. Ellie Jones 2013-05-01T10:36:13Z UCL-Energy Honorary Researcher publishes 'The Burning Question' http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/energy/news/burning-question Duncan Clark , Honorary Researcher at the UCL Energy Institute, has published his latest book with the help of staff and students of the UCL Energy Institute. The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment. Ellie Jones 2013-05-01T10:25:50Z Something Else for The Weekend http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/casa/news/2013-04-30_SEW CASA will be bringing its unique expertise, a series of workshops, and a range of exhibits to " Something Else for the Weekend " on Saturday May 11th, a reading-themed weekend of activities connecting members of the public with UCL research as part of the UCL Festival of Arts. We'll also be running a series of Cafe Scientifique-type events, where a short research talk will feed into a longer audience discussion around the techniques, applications, and any issues around these tools. Throughout the afternoon you'll see: 1pm: Martin DeJode on The Internet of Things and how giving physical objects a web presence is letting us tell stories about our shared experiences. 2pm: Flora Roumpani on virtual cities, and how we can create places we can visit from the mathematics of urban modelling. 3.15pm: Stephan Hugel and Martin Zaltz Austwick on walking the mystical routes of From Hell, Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's fictionalisation of Jack the Ripper, and how modern technologies lets us capture the geographies of literature. 4.15pm: Ed Manley on mapping twitter languages and creating a cultural snapshot of London's diverse present. CASA's work will also be on show in the crime fiction mapping of Copenhagen, "Pigeon Sim" (allowing users to "fly" around virtual London) and "The London Data Table" (seeing realtime London data projected onto the city's outline). And last, but not least, PhD student Tom Oleron Evans will be talking about plagiarism at Bright Club: Reading at the Bloomsbury Theatre on Thursday May 9th - buy your tickets here . You can find out all about Something Else For The Weekend on their webpage , and if you're a prospective MRes or PhD student, it's a great chance to see just some of the diverse work that happens at CASA. The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment. Martin Austwick 2013-04-30T17:42:53Z Alex Murray Presents at International Conferences http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/cpm/news/alexmurraypresentsatinternationalconferences Alex Murray, a Teaching Fellow in Construction and Infrastructure Economics, will be presenting 2 papers at international conferences this coming May. The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment. Lucy Craggs 2013-04-30T14:49:45Z American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/cpm/news/americanassociationofgeographersannualmeeting At the AAG (American Association of Geographers) Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, Professor Andrew Davies presented his research on the London Olympics construction project, focusing on the delivery model and its implications for how we understand the management of project complexity. The mini conference entitled 'An unlikely Success story? Olympic cities and the London 2012 Experience' was well attended and organised by Mike Raco of the Bartlett's School of Planning. Gernot Grabher and Joachim Thiel of Hamburg University were also in attendance. The success of the 2012 London Olympics construction programme has been recognised and praised across the globe and proved to the world that Britain had both the capacity and expertise to not only successfully deliver such a complex and large-scale project. But there is a need for a clear post-event strategy to ensure that a legacy remains for London long after the Games had left the city.   The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment. Lucy Craggs 2013-04-30T13:22:15Z INNOVATION - The Bartlett Summer Foundation Course http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/news/bartlett-summer-foundation-2013 The Bartlett School of Architecture’s Summer Foundation course, starting on 29th July 2013, is now open for applications. The programme, which can be studied over a 5-week or an 8-week period, is designed to prepare students for a future career in architecture and architectural education. Welcome to the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL's world-leading centre for education and research in architecture. Jean Garrett 2013-04-30T12:16:11Z Results! Graduate School Bursaries for the Cheltenham Science Festival 2013 http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/graduate/news/graduate_school_bursaries_cheltenham_science_festival_2013 We are delighted to announce that the Head of the Graduate School, Professor David Bogle, has considered the nominations put forward by divisions/departments for a Graduate School Bursary to attend the Cheltenham Science Festival ( http://www.cheltenhamfestivals.com/science ) in June and has awarded £600 bursaries to each of the 10 research and taught graduate students listed below.  Professor Bogle was impressed with the quality of the applications submitted and hopes that the students will both contribute to and benefit greatly from the Festival. Winners Sophie ATKINSON CoMPLEX Emily BURNS Cancer Research UK Anna GOULD Chemistry Madeline GRADE Brain Sciences Josep GRAU-BOVE Bartlett School of Graduate Studies Holly HOLMES Medical Physics and Bioengineering Maeve McMAHON Biosciences David ROBERTSON Cognitive Neuroscience Carolina SOTO-PALMA Genetics, Evolution and Environment Roselle THOREAU Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment. Craig D Daraz 2013-04-24T14:24:28Z