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Hi everyone, Just passing along what might be an interesting talk tonight, organised by CITY Journal and UCL Urban Lab. Cheers, TV ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Arabindoo, Pushpa <[log in to unmask]> Date: Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 7:30 PM Subject: CITY Journal/UCL Urban Laboratory Lecture by Prof Oren Yiftachel, 30 January 2014 UCL London To: [log in to unmask] Dear all, Please find below details of a public lecture by Prof Oren Yiftachel this Thursday 30 January, 6.30-8pm at University College London. *CITY Journal/UCL Urban Laboratory Lecture* *GRAY SPACE AND THE NEW URBAN REGIME: BETWEEN LIBERALISM AND CREEPING APARTHEID* *Professor Oren Yiftachel* Ben-Gurion University, Israel Date: 30 January 2014 Time: 18.30-20.00pm Venue: UCL Conference Suite 05, 188 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 7PH This lecture will analyse the impact of structural economic, identity and governance tensions on urban regimes and societies in the twenty-first century. It draws attention to the pervasive emergence of '*gray spaces*', that is, informal, temporary or illegal developments, transactions and populations. 'Gray-spacing' has become a central feature of urbanism in most parts of the world, as well as a strategy to manage the unwanted/irremovable, as well as the wanted/uncontrollable. Urban planning is central to this process, given its ability to approve, deny, legitimate and criminalise urban development. Gray spacing enables the mobility of marginalised groups into privileged regions, often under the guise of liberalising economies. At the same time, this puts in train a process of 'creeping urban apartheid' under which the region is governed through the principle of 'separation and inequality'. These tensions and trends will be illustrated by highlighting research findings on the planning of cities around Europe, Africa and Asia, with special focus on the 'ethnocratic' cities of Israel/Palestine, such as Beersheba, Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem. Prof. Yiftachel teaches urban studies as well as political and legal geography at Ben-Gurion University, Beersheba. His research has focused on critical understandings of the relations between space, power and conflict, with particular attention to ethnic, social and urban aspects of these relations. Yiftachel has taught as guest professor at a range of universities including RMIT Melbourne, Curtin, Columbia, Penn, Berkeley, Venezia, Kolkata and Cape Town. He has published over 100 articles and ten authored and edited books, including "Indigenous (In)Justice: the Bedouins in Comparative Perspective" (co-ed, Harvard University Press, 2013); "Ethnocracy: the Politics of Land and Identity in Israel/Palestine" (Pennpress, 2006); and "The Power of Planning" (ed, Kluwer, 2001). *Dr. Pushpa Arabindoo* Lecturer in Geography & Urban Design Department of Geography Co-director, UCL Urban Laboratory University College London 26 Bedford Way London WC1H 0AP Tel.: 020 7679 5512 Fax.: 020 7679 7565 e-mail: [log in to unmask] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/urbanlab http://www.ucl.ac.uk/urbanstudies http://www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/about-the-department/people/academics/academic-staff/pushpa-arabindoo/ Editor, CITY Journal http://www.city-analysis.net/