From Global Business City to Tourist City
Postmodern Transformation of Tokyo's CBD into a Tourist Destination On May 1st Dr Keisuke Enokido, Professor of International Tourism at Hannan University, Osaka, led a constructive research seminar on the tourismification of business districts, using a case study of new forms of area management in Tokyo. In anticipation of the opening of the V&A in Dundee, and efforts to draw international visitors and tourists to the city, colleagues from the schools of Town and Regional Planning and Business joined Professor Enokido and local city centre practitioners to learn more about the restoration of Tokyo&rsq...
100 years of Cities in Evolution
Marking the centenary of the publication of Geddes, Cities in Evolution Exhibition & Workshops The Scottish polymathic planner and botanist, Patrick Geddes, was able to articulate conceptual frameworks for the evolution of cities – what he called ‘thinking machines’ – and create resilient narratives for understanding the dialogues between the on-going processes of city evolution and democratic social organisation. This program of research workshops culminating in a symposium and public exhibition of work drawn from the Geddes archives, evaluates the relevance of Geddes to contem...
Resilient Coasts and Flourishing Seas?
Symposium: Tuesday 28 April 2015 The Baxter Suite 1.36, Tower Building, University of Dundee (9.30-4pm) Interested in Marine Spatial Planning? Want to know more about Scotland's first National Marine Plan? Why not attend a free event at the University of Dundee to find out more about what colleagues are researching in relation to the marine environment? This one day symposium will bring together inter-disciplinary expertise from practice and across the Centre for Environmental Change and Human Resilience (CEHCR) and Offshore Renewables Institute to explore key issues with respect to the marine and land/sea...
The Changing Face of Urban Planning
Mono 68: One city, One month, One camera Photographs by Phil Thomson, Dundee, November 1968 Lamb Gallery, Tower Building, University of Dundee To accompany this highly popular exhibition we have arranged another special event: Monday 16 March at 5.30pm The Changing Face of Urban Planning – a series of short talks followed by a discussion exploring how planning has changed in Dundee and other cities over the years. Why was so much of the city demolished and are we more sympathetic towards conservation of the built environment today? The event will start in the Lamb Gallery then move into Room T4 for f...
Dundee Conservation Lectures in their 21st year
Classical Revival in 18th Century Architecture Murray Grigor OBE & Peter Burman 6 pm D'Arcy Thompson Lecture Theatre, Tower Building The 21st season of the Dundee Conservation Lectures continues on 24th March. Murray Grigor OBE is the probably greatest Scottish exponent of architecture and design through fi lm and his celebrated fi rst fi lm, Mackintosh, 1968, rekindled interest in the then neglected architect. He has since gone on to make over 50 fi lms with a focus on arts and architecture (most recently 'Beatus: the Spanish Apocalypse', 2014). 'The Hand of Adam' ...
Mono 68 Photography & Memory event
Mono 68: One city, One month, One camera Photographs by Phil Thomson, Dundee, November 1968 Lamb Gallery, Tower Building, University of Dundee Friday 6 March at 6pm Photography and Memory – a series of short talks followed by a discussion exploring the role of photography in capturing Dundee and other cities, and how our memories and our ideas about architecture are shaped by photographic images. The event will start in the Lamb Gallery with an introduction by Caroline Brown (Deputy Archivist at the University of Dundee). We will then move into Baxter Suite Room 1.36 for four presentations: Journali...
Barbara Illsley - Chancellor’s Award for Lifetime Contribution to Teaching
Barbara Illsley, Senior Lecturer in Town and Regional Planning and winner of the University of the Dundee Chancellor’s Award for Lifetime Contribution to Teaching in 2014, presented a Discovery Days lecture on 9 January, 2015, entitled ‘The education of tomorrow’s town planners’. Barbara explained that town planning has a long history both as an academic discipline and a professional activity dating back over a century. This dual identity presents educators with challenges and opportunities; graduates need to have both in-depth knowledge and understanding of the discipline whi...
50 years of planning staff reunion
Laughter and happy memories were the order of the day in Town and Regional Planning when current and former staff met to celebrate 50 years of planning at Dundee. The buffet lunch, held in the University Tower, was the final event of a very busy year of celebrations. Colleagues from each of the past five decades shared their stories of planning, aided by a wonderful display of photographs taken over a thirty year period by the late Dave Gourlay, who is sadly missed by us all. Thanks to Anne Thomas Cumming for the delicious birthday cake. The party was not just about the past however...
Mind the (Housing) Wealth Gap
Society Research Group Seminar: Mind the (Housing) Wealth Gap - Family Welfare & Intergenerational Justice 26 November 2014, 1-2 pm, Room G6, Tower Building, University of Dundee Beverley Searle “Housing Wealth and Family Welfare – An Introduction” Stephan Köppe “Acquiring, Managing and Using Housing Assets: Longitudinal Evidence from Britain” Adriana Soaita “Homeownership-based welfare: Pathways to family wellbeing” Researchers of the Mind the (Housing) Wealth Gap project are presenting their research results at the Society Research ...
Dundee students on top at Drawing Places
Dundee students came out on top against students from Herriot Watt at this year's Drawing Places event, winning the prize for their masterplanning of an area of Knockroon. Drawing Places is a Scottish Government initiative, intended to to bring planners and engineers back-to-basics on how to draw and visualise places. This session, aimed at students who are new to planning, was held over two days (12/13 Nov) at Dumfries House, in collaboratrion with the Prince's Foundation. After an intensive day spent developing drawing skills - and producing some impressive sketchbooks - the students visited Knockroon, t...