July 2008
- David Lowenthal to organise memorial tribute for colleague
- Since writing obituaries for geography colleagues, David is organising a tribute for David Hooson at the RGS.
- John Salt acted as rapporteur at a recent OECD-Dutch government seminar
- Professor John Salt was in Amsterdam for the government Migration Seminar in June 2008
- Conversations in Buenos Aires
- Professor Matthew Gandy, Dr Caroline Bressey, Dr Andrew Harris and Leandro Minuchin recently participated in a workshop in Buenos Aires entitled 'Conversations on the Contemporary City'.
- Alan Gilbert gives plenary address in Germany
- Professor Alan Gilbert gave a plenary address at the University of Dortmund on 30 June on 'Urban governance and the poor'.
- Hugh Clout lectures in France
- Professor Hugh Clout delivered the plenary lecture on 20 June at the international conference on "Les dimensions du terrain en géographie" held at the Université d'Artois in Arras.
- Cities in Modernity Book Launch
- Richard Dennis's new book, Cities in Modernity: Representations and Productions of Metropolitan Space, 1840-1930, published by Cambridge University Press, was launched at a reception in UCL on 17 June, following on from the Environment Institute's 'Stinkfest' at which Richard gave the opening talk.
- Top Downloaded Paper
- A paper by UCL researchers and collaborators in Edinburgh and Oregon was the most downloaded paper in the journal 'Remote Sensing of Environment' over the period January to March 2008.
