Professor Sharon Zukin, Broeklundian Professor of Sociology, City University of New York
The Museum in Docklands, E14, Thursday June 10 2004, 6-8pm
London is moving east. All through the Thames Gateway, industrial and commercial centres of gravity are shifting away from the areas of their historic concentration to create new areas of knowledge and power, both locally and globally.
The process of re-orientation is complex and challenging. It is mixing new communities and productivities from around the world with long established ways of local life and livelihood. It has spawned a new tourism and heritage industry. It offers the prospect of a new kind of popular cosmopolitanism rooted in a multicultural economy, as well as highlighting deep rooted tensions related to enduring problems of poverty and social exclusion.
As part of our contribution to the public understanding of these issues we are inviting an internationally renowned urban expert to give a special lecture addressing a strategic regeneration issue facing the region.
2004 is the year in which London’s bid for the 2012 Olympics takes off in earnest and it becomes important to consider the broader consequences of the government’s decision to site the games in East London. It is for this reason that we have invited Prof. Sharon Zukin to give the inaugural lecture.
Professor Zukin is one of the world’s leading authorities on the role of cultural policy in urban regeneration and has been active in recent debates around the costs and benefits of Olympic bids to the cities involved. Her books include The Cultures of Cities (1997) and Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World (1994) which won the C. Wright Mills Prize. Her most recent book is Point of Purchase: How Shopping Changed American Culture (2004).
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MA Urban Renewal The course has a strong interdisciplinary emphasis and is designed to equip people at different stages of their careers with the means to reflect more systematically and in greater depth on their own field of practice.
Host Cities, Education, Culture and Regeneration
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