The Bartlett School of Planning (BSP) holds public lectures regularly throughout the academic year. Speakers are drawn from across the world to showcase recent ideas and research.
All are welcome. Each lecture begins and 6pm and is followed by a drinks reception. More information, including location will be published in advance of each lecture.
2023-24 Public Lecture Schedule
25th January 2023 | Rachel Franklin, Newcastle University | Spatial Inequality and the Smart City
14th March 2024 | Catriona Riddell, Catriona Riddell & Associates Ltd | Strategic planning
The Annual Sir Peter Hall Lecture 2024
23rd May 2024 | Flora Samuel, Cambridge University | Housing for hope and wellbeing
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Past Lectures
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- 2023-24Ìý(convened by Professor Nick Gallent)
25th January 2024
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Spatial Inequality and the Smart City with Prof. Rachel Franklin
Event information30th November 2023
³§±è±ð²¹°ì±ð°ù:Ìý (University College Dublin)
Putting the Blame on Planning: Housing Crisis and Reform in Ireland
Event information26th October 2023
Speaker: (University of Helsinki)
BSP Public Lecture: Towards a Just Ecological Political Economy
Event information- 2022-23Ìý(convened by Professor Nick Gallent)
25th May 2023
Speaker: (UC Berkeley)
Everyday Urbanism and Planners
Event information2nd February 2023
Speaker: Claire ColombÌý(The Bartlett School of Planning)
°Õ´Ç±è¾±³¦:ÌýRegulating short-term rental housing in the age of digital platforms.ÌýSocial conflicts, urban governance and regulatory enforcement in European cities.
Event information
N.B. The recording of this lecture will be available after the publication of the referenced research.1st DecemberÌý2022
Speaker: Ìý()
°Õ´Ç±è¾±³¦:ÌýThe production of informal space
Event information27th October 2022
Speaker: (University of Amsterdam)
Topic:ÌýRethinking property-led planning through spatial governance landscapes
Event information- 2021Ìý- 2022Ìý(convened by Professor Nick Gallent)
ThursdayÌý26th MayÌý2022
Speakers: Sharon ZukinÌý(Brooklyn College/ CUNY)
Title: Place Making in the Metaverse
Event informationTuesdayÌý8th MarchÌý2022
Speakers:ÌýIsabelle Anguelovski and James Connoll
Title:ÌýThe Green City and Social Injustice
Event informationThursday 27th JanuaryÌý2022
³§±è±ð²¹°ì±ð°ù:ÌýMaria Adebowale-SchwarteÌý(Foundation for Future London)Ìý
Title:ÌýThe Place Making Factor: Disrupting Siloed Thinking to Make Better Places
Event informationThursday 28th October 2021
Speaker: Professor John Tomaney, The Bartlett School of Planning, UCL
Title:ÌýSocial infrastructure and left-behind places: stories from County Durham
Event information- 2020Ìý- 2021Ìý(convened by Professor Nick Gallent)
6pm, Thursday 20th MayÌý2021
Speaker: , Harvard University
Title: The Annual Sir Peter Hall Lecture: Healthy Cities and Communities after COVID-19
Event information
Watch the lecture on YouTubeThursdayÌý25th FebruaryÌý2021
Speaker: , RMIT University
Title:ÌýPrecarities of dwelling in the settler-colonial city
Event informationWednesdayÌý25th NovemberÌý2020
Speaker: , TheÌýUniversity of California,ÌýBerkeley
Title:ÌýRacialised Geographies of Housing Financialisation
Event informationWednesday 28th October 2020
Speaker: , The University of Hong Kong
Title:ÌýUrbanism and older people’s mental wellbeing
Event information- 2019Ìý- 2020Ìý(convened by Professor John Tomaney)
ThursdayÌý31stÌýOctober 2019
Speaker: Ìýand
Title: Foundational Liveability PlaceÌýand Planning
Event informationThursday 30th January 2020
Speaker:
Title:ÌýPower at Ground Zero - Rebuilding Lower Manhattan
Event information
Thursday 27th February 2020
Speaker:
Title:ÌýIs fixing infrastructure in the London global city-region undermining the UK?
Event informationÌýThursday 4th June 2020
Speaker:
Title:ÌýThe UK2070 Commission on regional inequalities
Event information- 2018Ìý- 2019Ìý(convened by Professor John Tomaney)
25th October 2018Ìý'Cities in Time:ÌýTemporary Urbanism and the Future of Cities'Ìý,ÌýUniversity of Newcastle
29th November 2018 'Urban Transformation and sustainable development: from Beijing to Manchester'Ìý, University of Manchester
31st January 2019Ìý'Design for Wellbeing'Ìý, dRMM
28th February 2019Ìý'Spatial Rationalities of Urban Inequality in the United States'Ìý , University of Cardiff
5th June 2019ÌýThe Annual Sir Peter Hall Lecture 'Metabolic Suburbia: Facing the connectivity of the extended urban world'Ìý, UCL
- 2017Ìý- 2018Ìý(convened by Professor John Tomaney)
26th October 2017
'The Urban Displacement Project: Urban Data Science for Policy Change'Ìý,ÌýUniversity of California, Berkeley
30th November 2017Ìý
'Planning in Northern Ireland – Where are we now?'
25th January 2018Ìý
'Rethinking the Economics of Land Housing'ÌýDr Josh Ryan-Collins
24th May 2018Ìý
'Planning centrality, market instruments: Governing Chinese urban',ÌýFulong Wu
- 2016Ìý- 2017Ìý(convened by Professor John Tomaney)
27th October 2016
'When and Why do We Overbuild?'Ìý, University of Illinois, Chicago
1st December 2016
'Planning, Politics and the Global Housing Market: Perspectives from Australia' , University of Sydney
26th January 2017
'New York City’s Affordable Housing Plan Under Mayor De Blasio and the Limits of Local Initiative' , The New School, New York
23rd February 2017
'Milton Keynes at 50. A planner’s perspective' Anna Rose,ÌýDirector – Growth, Economy and Culture at Milton Keynes Council and President, Planning Officers Society
25th May 2017
The Annual Sir Peter Hall Lecture 'Creative Improvisation and Critical Pragmatism' , Cornell University, New York
- 2015Ìý- 2016Ìý(convened by Professor John Tomaney)
29th October 2015
'London: The World’s Greatest Unplanned City'ÌýProfessor Peter Rees, CBE, Bartlett School of Planning, UCL
26th November 2015
'Tracking and Explaining Neighbourhood Chance in U.S. Metro Areas, 1990 to 2010' , University of Pennsylvaia
28th January 2016
'A Growing London: The Importance of Crossrail 2' , Managing Director of Planning, Transport for London
25th February 2016
'Data-driven, Networked Urbanism' , National University of Ireland, Maynooth
26th May 2016
The Annual Sir Peter Hall Lecture 'Planning the social: diversity beyond recognition?' , University of Melbourne
- 2011Ìý- 2012Ìý(convened by Dr Jung Won Sonn)
12th October 2011
'Tram Trains as a Catalyst for City Region Building'Ìý, University of Kassel
16 November 2011
'Addressing the Policy Integration Probematic from a Co-Evolution Perspective'Ìý and Dr Catalina Turcu, Bartlett School of Planning, UCL
23 November 2011
'Thirty Global Planning Success Stories'Ìý, University of Pennsylvania
18th January 2012
'Parochialism - a defence' , Bartlett School of Planning, UCL
22nd February 2012
'Cracking Hegemony: regionalism and state rescaling in South Korean, 1960s'ÌýDon-wan Kim, Korean Research Foundation
7th March 2012
'Tech City and the London Economy' ,ÌýLSE
21st March 2012
'Community Planning and Transition' , University of Reading
- 2010Ìý- 2011Ìý(convened by Dr Jung Won Sonn)
20th October 2010
'Planning, Localism and the Big Society'Ìý, Chief Executive, Town and Country Planning Association
17th November 2010Ìý
'Mega-events and urban spatial restricting: the case of 2010 Summer Asian Games in GuangzhouÌýChina'Ìý
Ìý24th November 2010
'From Metropolitan to Regional Urbanisation' ,ÌýDistinguished Professor Emiritus,ÌýLSE
8th December 2010
'Research Questions arising from Public Engagement in London Planning'ÌýProfessorÌýMichael Edwards, Bartlett School of Planning, UCL
12th January 2011
'Life After Regions? The evolution of city-regionalism in England' , Loughborough University
26th January 2011
'Sub-national economic policy: are local Enterprise Partnerships the right way forward?'ÌýPaul Hildreth, University of SalfordÌý
9th February 2011
'Methodological Challenges in Local Development Analysis' , University of Leuven
23rd February 2011
'Migration of Creative Class' , University of Cambridge
8th March 2011
'Policy Responses to Deindustrialisation: Four UK Cities’ Experiences'Ìý,ÌýProfessor Emerita, University of Minnesota
17th March 2011- 'Planning’s Future – Futures Planning: Planning in an Era of Global (Un)certainty and Transformation. A response to the theme of the 2011 World Planning Schools Conference' , University of New South Wales
23rdÌýMarch 2011
'University and the City'Ìý, Professor Emeritus, Newcastle University
26th May 2011
'Canberra – Myths and Models Reloaded'Ìý, University of Kassel
- 2009Ìý- 2010Ìý(convened by Professor Nick Phelps)
22nd September 2009
'European Metroscapes: the production of lived mobilities within the socio-technical Metrosystems in Copenhagen, London, and Paris' ,ÌýAalborg University
15th October 2009
'Mapping London’s skyline: The project-based networks of London’s buildings' , Royal Holloway
12th November 2009
'Picking your partners: how does the research standing of academics influence their relationships with industry?'Ìý, Imperial College Business School
26th November 2009
'Gated Communities and Social Segregation? The case of a gated community and its surrounding area in Mendoza, Argentina' , University of Queensland
10th December 2009
'Building trust in planning: understanding the contested legitimacy of a planning decision'Ìý, The University of Sheffield
27th January 2010
'European Experiences in Planning for Major Infrastructure'Ìý, Oxford Brookes University
24th February 2010
'Institutional Changes, Foreign Direct Investment and the re-structuring of the Food Retail Industry in Post-WTO-Entry China'ÌýWance Tacconnelli, University of Surrey
10th March 2010
'The Rise of Amsterdam as the Cultural Capital of the Netherlands. Long-Term Shifts in Polycentric Divisions of Labour in Cultural Industries in the Netherlands' Professor Robert Kloosterman,ÌýUniversity of Amsterdam
17th March 2010
'Zero-Carbon Built Environment Networks', Professor Yvonne Rydin, Bartlett School of Planning, UCL
24th March 2010
'A Green Belt Under Pressure'Ìý, University of Cambridge
- 2008 - 2009 (convened by Professor Nick Phelps)
22nd September 2008
'European Metroscapes: the production of lived mobilities within the socio-technical Metrosystems in Copenhagen, London, and Paris'Ìý, Aalborg UniversityÌý
15th October 2008
'Mapping London's skyline: The project-based networks of London's buildings' , Royal Holloway
12th November 2008
'Picking your partners: how does the research standing of academics influence their relationships with industry?'Ìý, Imperial College Business School
26th November 2008
'Gated Communities and Social Segregation? The case of a gated community and its surrounding area in Mendoza, Argentina' , University of Queensland
10th December 2008
'Building trust in planning: understanding the contested legitimacy of a planning decision'Ìý, The University of Sheffield
27th January 2009
'Local Policies for Global Problems: New Challenges for Implementation' , United Nations University
11th February 2009
'From Factorial Ecology to Ecological Sensing: A Case Study of Canterbury' Canterbury Christ Church University
25th February 2009
'Creativity, Network and Openness - The Potential Value of an Open Source Approach to Support Practitioners in Planning for Sustainability'
25th March 2009
'Planning for Rural Housing: Policy and Politics in Ireland' , University College Dublin
27th May 2009
'The Uses of Planning Theory' , University of British Columbia