PHD/ MA Cities Design and Urban Cultures

Research & Teaching Staff

Ines Weizman (Course Director)
Elena Pascolo
John Palmesino
Duncan Bowie
Joseph Kohlmaier
Paulo Tavarse

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The idea is to build a knowledge base and establish a research culture for the MA Cities Design and Urban Cultures. It is for this reason that the work of the programme is conceived in a long-term which will allow to study, analyse and test a variety of sites and to compare and understand them in relation to each other. The ‘Five Year Plan’ (a concept embodied well within the tradition of communist planning) aims to investigate a minimum of six cities: every year one post-communist city while London itself remains a comparative source and a home base. London will also represent another pole in understanding extreme forms of urban transformations beyond the simplified notions of growth and shrinking.

Le Corbusier's secretary for his mother, sketch by Paulo Moreira

London Metropolitan University

Department of Architecture & Spatial Design
Spring House
40-44 Holloway Road
London N7 8JL

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Lectures delivered by students

‘Stories are at the heart of what explorers and novelists say about strange regions of the world; they also become the method colonised people use to assert their own identity and the existence of their own history.’

(Edward W. Said, Culture and Imperialism)

Critical Transformations, Student Marathon in November 2008

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In March 2009, Paulo Moreira student in the MA Cities Design and Urban Cultures was awarded the Noel Hill Student Travel Award. Paulo used this award for his research related to the design of a primary school in Viana near Luanda (Angola). In June 2009 he was also awarded the Prize for Social Entrepreneurship, Department of Architecture and Spatial Design - London Metropolitan University.