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The Modernist
20th century modernist design and architecture in the NW of England, from Runcorn’s lost utopia to Blackpool Casino, from Forton Services to Manchester’s UMIST campus.
If you love the 20th century architecture and design of the NW, from Cheshire to Cumbria, Blackpool to Blackburn… Manchester, Liverpool, Preston and the rest, the modernist magazine is just the ticket, we regularly feature articles, interviews, news, reviews and travel.
We’ve handpicked a team of experts, and dilettantes alike, to bring you news, musings and delightful titbits about modernist architecture and design in the NW.
University cities thrive on students
If student numbers in cities fall as more young people choose to stay at home while they study, will we really be better off? Or will university cities become ghost towns?
Demolition of London housing estate to begin
Demolition teams are to move in to one of Britain’s best known housing estates on Friday.
The sprawling Heygate estate in Walworth, south-east London, is close to the Aylesbury estate, which Tony Blair visited hours after his 1997 election victory. In his first leadership speech he described the residents as the “forgotten people” and pledged to tackle social exclusion in the are.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/apr/15/demolition-london-housing-estate-begins
Fitness and Swimming in Tallinn
Check this:
Student swimming
Mondays and Thursdays you can go to Kalev Spa from 19.30 to 21.00.
You need to get a proof of studentship, the international office can issue a letter in Estonian
language.
Alternative:
www.myfitness.ee
Elites take over the city (18th – 21st C): what can research do about it?
Brussels, 28-30 April 2011
Palais des Académies
Académie royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique
Rue Ducale 1, 1000 Bruxelles
This symposium aims to confront empirical research, its work methods and ethical commitments, when it takes on the study of elites in the city. The speakers will analyse the methods influential groups use or have used to shape the city. These methods include coalitions, technical/legal inventions, academic know-how and professional expertise, lobbying, residential strongholds, and many more. The symposium is thus intended to stimulate debate on the production of urban space and its enmeshed power relations, today and in the past, as well as to explore the fieldwork done in order to tackle theses issues.
more information here
PhD Studentship on Retrofitting the City
SURF – The Centre for Sustainable Urban and Regional Futures
Applications must be received no later than 5.00pm on 20th May 2011
The successful candidate is expected to register in June 2011 or as soon as possible thereafter.
For further information and informal enquiries please contact Dr Mike Hodson m.hodson@salford.ac.uk or Professor Tim May t.may@salford.ac.uk – or by telephone: (0161) 295 4018.
Library search site
Here is the link to the library search engine.
London symposium on Music, Politics and Agency, 20 May
A one-day conference presented by:
Centre for Cultural Studies Research, University of East London Faculty of Social Sciences, Open University Media Industries Research Centre, University of Leeds
May 20th 2011
11:00 – 18:00
University of East London
Docklands Campus
Room EB.2.43
Can music change anything, or does its potency lie merely in its exemplary status as an organised human activity? What are the effects of power relations on music and to what extent is music itself a site at which power relations can be reinforced, challenged or subverted? What are the economic, affective, corporeal or ideological mechanisms through which these processes occur? Has the age of recorded music as a potent social force now passed, a relic of the twentieth century; or with the music industry in crisis, is music culture in fact the first post-capitalist sector of the cultural economy, only now emerging from the long shadow of the culture industry? What historical or contemporary examples can we draw on to address some or all of these questions?
This conference is programmed by Jeremy Gilbert (Centre for Cultural Studies Research, University of East London), David Hesmondhalgh (Media Industries Research Centre, Institute of Communications Studies) and Jason Toynbee (Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change, Open University).
The conference is free to attend, but pre-registration is recommended.
To register email j.gilbert@uel.ac.uk
For any further information, email j.gilbert@uel.ac.uk