This semester’s first guest lecture of Space – Society – Economy is going to take place this Wednesday, 8th June (6pm, WH 112). The lecture is going to be held by Dr Tim Brown (School of Geography, Queen Mary University of London) discussing Experiments in the city: Making healthy and sustainable spaces?
In a nutshell, the session focusses on cities as epicentres both for the emergence of health crises and for the implementation of public health interventions to address these. In particular, it discusses challenges and opportunities resulting from the diversity of urban populations, communities and spaces and raises questions about how far observations in one community or context are translatable to another. Drawing on the case study of East London, this lecture considers the ways in which particular spaces become defined, characterised and performed as urban laboratories for public health intervention.
All interested persons are warmly invited to attend the lecture and the informal gathering at the restaurant Trompete subsequent to the talk. For further information on Space – Society – Economy, please visit: www.ku.de/mgf/geographie/wirtschaftsgeographie/spaces/ or contact Hans-Martin Zademach (Zademach@ku.de) and/or Cornelia Bading (Cornelia.Bading@ku.de)