Journalist and author Michael Collins presents a hard-hitting and heartwarming history of one of
Britain’s greatest social revolutions – council housing.
At its height in the mid-1970s, council housing provided homes for over a third of the British
population. From the ‘homes for heroes’ cottages that were built in the wake of the First
World War to the much-maligned, monolithic high rises of the 60s and 70s, Collins embarks on a grand
tour of Britain’s council estates.
He visits Britain’s first council estate, built as an antidote to London’s disease and
crime-ridden Victorian slums, the groundbreaking flats that made inter-war Liverpool the envy of Europe,
the high rise estate in Sheffield that has become the largest listed building in the world, and the
estate built on the banks of the Thames that was billed as ‘the town of the 21st
century’.
Along the way he meets the people whose lives were shaped by an extraordinary social experiment that
began with a bang at the start of the 20th century and ended with a whimper 80 years later.
The Great Estate: The Rise & Fall of the Council House
Finding used Bikes in Tallinn
Try these shops:
Velonaut, Telliskivi loomelinnakus, Telliskivi 60, tel 58 06 38 38
CityBike OÜ, Uus tn 33, tel 51 11 819
Veloplus , Saku tn 3, tel 65 56 977
Going out and getting around in Tallinn
Check these sites for now:
www.klubid.ee (estonian only,but google translate
helps)
www.tallinn-life.com
www.inyourpocket.com
rada7.ee
kuhuminna.ee
This seems to be another interesting portal for visitors:
www.traveller.ee
Second International Conference of Young Urban Researchers
Venue: Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Lisbon
11 October 2011 – 14 October 2011
Four years after the first meeting, the Second International Conference of Young Urban Researchers provides continuity to the experience of interdisciplinary meeting of young urban researchers.
The conference aims to share recent researches on urban contexts from many different areas of social sciences, to discuss current theoretical and methodological issues and to promote interdisciplinary and international networking. It is intended that the meeting should be boosted by young researchers who work in urban studies and develop research in the cities – especially those who are studying in post-graduate programs but also those carrying out technical and intervention activities.
Manchester Metropolitan University Research Studentships 10/11
2 full research studentships at MMU starting 2011/2012. Open to home students and EU candidates. For further information visit:
http://www.hssr.mmu.ac.uk/studentships/research-studentships/
European Platform for Intelligent Cities (EPIC) – Manchester Pilot 29th March 2011
Dear All,
I am pleased to have the opportunity to invite you to the Manchester EPIC project workshop on Tuesday 29th March 2011, here at MDDA Offices.
‘The EPIC platform will combine the industrial strengths of IBM’s ‘Smart City’ vision and cloud computing infrastructure with the knowledge and expertise of leading European Living Labs… to ensure the development of a European ‘innovation ecosystem’ for sustainable user-driven web-based services for citizens and businesses.’ (EPIC, 2010)
The purpose of the workshop is to communicate the SMART City concept and demonstrate the Manchester EPIC pilot, energyhive, to a representative stakeholder community from the City.
energyhive is an energy monitoring product, which allows users to view the household’s energy consumption via a web-based dashboard. The product collates household data at regular intervals via a number of energy monitoring units from within the home, this data can then be stored on a cloud-based storage system.
The workshop will allow the EPIC team to highlight the environmental and technological benefits of using cloud-based approaches to support sustainable web-based services and products.
see more here
Spaces and Flows Conference 2011
Welcome to 2011 Spaces and Flows: An International Conference on Urban and ExtraUrban Studies. The conference will be held at the Monash University Prato Centre, Prato, Italy from 17-18 November 2011.
This conference aims to critically engage the contemporary and ongoing spatial, social, ideological, and political transformations in a transnational, global, and neoliberal world. In a process-oriented world of flows and movement, we posit, the global north and global south now simultaneously converge and diverse in a dialectic that shapes and transforms cities, suburbs, and rural areas. This conference addresses the mapping of, the nature of, and the forces that propel these processural changes.
“Dream cities, sustainable cities?” in Toulouse
A JOINT EDF DIVERSITERRE FOUNDATION/CITY ON THE MOVE INSTITUTE EXHIBITION
What are the major challenges facing urbanism today? What new compromises does it need to make? How can individual desires – for space, urban intensity and nature, access to all the resources of the city – be reconciled with the demands of sustainability? Going to the heart of the public debate and of our concerns as citizens, this exhibition was first presented at the EDF Diversiterre Foundation in Paris in October 2009/March 2010, then in Mulhouse in October 2010/February 2011 and will be at Espace Bazacle in Toulouse from March 30 to June 12, 2011. Read More
11th Annual Conference – Globalizing cultures, identities and lifestyles
The conference will be held at Manchester Metropolitan University – where the GSA was first established in 2000 – in conjunction with the Department of Sociology.
Two of our keynote speakers have already been arranged. They are:
Professor Richard Giulianotti, Durham University who has written extensively on globalization and sport,
especially football, and Professor Peggy Levitt, Wellesley College, Boston, USA, who has published
extensively on transnational migrants.
In addition we invite scholars, postgraduates and other interested and informed lay-persons to submit abstracts by May 31st, 2011. We also hope to publish one or more books consisting of the most interesting readings drawn from the conference. Read More
World’s most visionary city
“Across the globe, architects and social engineers are taking entirely unique approaches to redefine how cities function. And traveling to these visionary cities today gives you a taste of the world of tomorrow.” (Joshua M. Bernstein)
On number 3: Free public wi-fi in Tallinn