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Sean May although he is still trying to get in shape bla bla he is playing better as of late....
Just went to ESPN and checked out the NBA rankings..
glad to see the Bobcats with one of the strongest SOS so far this season...we haven't gotten blown out by our opponents (with the exception of 3 games, Dallas/Cleveland/Pistons)
The winning pct of our opponents is .552
This would put us fifth after Bulls (.595, 8-9), Raptors (.576, 8-8 ), Pacers (.569, 6-10), Bucks (.564, 7-12)
In comparison with these guys, we're not doing terribly..though i expect raptors to do much better
Also, some of the teams with weaker schedules that us have losing records..Memphis, Timberwolves, Warriors, Kings, Thunders.
We should "technically" win three of the next five games...the Cavs/NO games will be tough..But so far, it seems that we've been able to win the games against the easy teams
With this in mind...anyone else feel good about our progress thus far in the season? Granted..we still need a big man which limits our possibilities to make a run to the playoffs. Sean May healthy and in shape would provide a good boost....and we really don't have any home advantage
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Sean May although he is still trying to get in shape bla bla he is playing better as of late....
......Go Bobcats!!!!! (Hornets) ..
A slow start was predictable, but if this team is serious about making a run at the playoffs they need to make hay this month. They have eight "should win" games and only three games against upper tier teams. They have 9 of 16 at home (an advantage they won't have again until March), as well as some winnable road games.
January is by far going to be the team's toughest month schedule-wise and February won't be much better. Both months conclude with five-game road trips.
I am encouraged by the progress, but you're right this team remains a big man short. Any of the big men that fit the teams needs either are not available or will result in the team giving up a major piece, in a steal from Peter scenario.
I think (with the team playing better in the last few games) they have a strong chance to reach .500 (maybe 14-14/15-15) and I think we'll all have a clear idea as to which players "get" LB and his system...what happens after that depends on if a majority of the players "get it" or they have to make trades (as in major)...next 3-6 weeks I think will be interesting and entertaining...
A lot more trade opportunities will begin to open up on Dec. 15th, if I'm not mistaken, with players who've signed contracts over the summer being available for trade.
If we can get to .500 after 30 games, then everyone on this board better be singing the praises of one Mr. Coach Larry Brown. Especially considering we'd have to go 9-4 to do it. But, like the player's say, "F*** it. Keep ballin'!"
I could tell from opening night (well, OUR opening night) against the Heat that this was an improved team. Yes, the bumps along the road have been frustrating, and will continue to be frustrating when they occur, but there is the sense that if this team is healthy, the Cats will be in a position to win quite a few more games than they ever have going into the last few minutes of the 4th. I expect a blowout or two on their west coast roadies, but otherwise, I really feel we can win any game, and I've never felt that way before. I'm really eyeing that game at Dallas next week for some revenge!!! And after the difficult start, we're even with last year's squad at 6-11, and I don't anticipate this unit going on any 5+ losing streaks like last year. Barring a significant move, I don't know about us being .500, but I happy to be along for the ride to see where it takes us.
"The Charlotte Hornets name has been a mainstay throughout the region for many years, and we are excited to announce our intention to re-establish this historic brand. We believe that its return will galvanize our fan base by unifying our loyal Bobcats fans with those who have strong memories of our city's NBA predecessor." MJ, 5-21-13
I don't think we should make any trades until we can get the exact player that will help us out the most, but I don't want to lose any of our core players in order to get him... We are really starting to click as a team and the difference in coaching is definitely showing each game as we seem to be getting better every outing....
......Go Bobcats!!!!! (Hornets) ..
Muttley I count 11 out of the next 15 that they could win (I did not say easy)....but even if they say win 9 of those it would give a clear indication (to me at least) that we're going in the correct direction (winning that is ) and it also means that the players (most at least) are starting to get it...
They need to do this because Jan. is tough...nine road games and 8-9 games against playoff teams from last year...but possible to play .500 ball even then if they're on track...so I think the next 15 games will set the tone for the season...and if LBs past coaching record is any indication (and it should be) we get good enough to make the playoffs this year or changes are coming to get ready for next year...
I agree with that 100%. I think all of our core are worth keeping.
BRNC, you're analysis of the schedule is obviously more in-depth than mine, and if you say that the 'Cats can win 11 or the next 15 then I believe you. I still think they've got it in them to do well this year (a decent PF wouldn't hurt, though). I'm just a little bored of all the "[Person associated with the Bobcats] sucks, let's trade them for ________" posts. Although, I'm really enjoying the more high-minded commentary we've had going of late.
Agree...and a heck of a lot more entertaining to boot...the one thing our team has lacked so far has been consistency and I think the next 15 games gives them a chance to pull it together...I've been really impressed with the effort over the last 4-5 games...and to a great degree I think the distraction (to Crash specifically) of trade speculations has run its course...a good PF would be great but I'm not at all willing to give away any asset we have without getting a real asset back....


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Ben Campkin is Director of the UCL Urban Laboratory and Senior Lecturer in Architectural History and Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture.
As an urbanist and architectural historian, Ben's cross-disciplinary research focuses on urban decline and 'regeneration' in London; housing, including early twentieth century slum clearances, and the representation and redevelopment of modernist mass housing; and the uses of images in urban change. He is the author of Remaking London: Decline and Regeneration in Urban Culture (IB Tauris, 2013) and co-editor of Dirt: New Geographies of Cleanliness and Contamination (IB Tauris, 2007, paperback 2012), and his work has recently appeared in journals such as Architectural Theory Review (2013), The Journal of Architecture (2007), Architectural Design (2010) and the Centre for Education of the Built Environment: Transactions (2009), and anthologies including Urban Constellations (2011), Camera Constructs: Photography, Architecture and the Modern City (2012), The Art of Dissent: Adventures in London's Olympic State (2012) and Ladies and Gents: Public Toilets and Gender (2007).
Ben teaches on the Bartlett School of Architecture's BSc Architecture, as coordinator of year 3 architectural history and theory, and on the MA Architectural History, PhD Architecture by Design and PhD Architecture History and Theory programmes. He is co-convenor of the inter-faculty MSc Urban Studies, and chairs the UCL Grand Challenge of Sustainable Cities Executive Group.
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Dr Pushpa Arabindoo (Co-director)
Lecturer in Geography and Urban Design. Dr Arabindoo is a specialist in the fields of urbanization, public space and political activism in India, and is also a practising designer in the UK. Her research focus is on the emerging aspects of urbanisation and development issues in South Asian cities amidst the concerns of neoliberalisation and globalisation. She is currently working on the changing nature of the urban environmental discourse in India following recent natural disasters including the 2004 tsunami and the 2005 floods.
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Dr Matthew Beaumont (Co-director)
Senior Lecturer in the English Department. Dr Beaumont is the author of Utopia Ltd. (2005) and The Spectre of Utopia (2012), and the co-author, with Terry Eagleton, of The Task of the Critic (2009). He is the co-editor of Restless Cities (2010). Dr Beaumont's research interests currently centre on various aspects of the metropolitan city. He is in the early stages of writing a book about nightwalking in cities, provisionally entitled Midnight Streets.
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Dr Sarah Bell (Co-director)
Senior Lecturer in Civil and Environmental Engineering. Sarah Bell's research interests lie in the relationships between engineering, technology and society as they impact on sustainability, particularly in relation to water systems. She primarily uses qualitative research methods informed by theories from the science and technology studies, philosophy of technology and philosophy of engineering. She has supervised work in Australia, the UK, Mexico, Pakistan and Peru and has worked with a number of external partners including Waterwise, Arup, AECOM, Thames Water and WWF.
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Dr Camillo Boano (Co-director)
Senior Lecturer in Development Studies and Disaster Risk Reduction. Dr Boanpo directs the MSc in Building and Urban Design in Development, is the Director of Communication in the Development Planning Unit and Coordinator of the DPUsummerLab initiative. Dr Boano's interests are focused on urban development, contested urbanism, socio-spatial dialectics, design and urban transformations, and shelter and housing reconstruction in geographies of the global south. He is working on a series of interconnected research projects in South East Asia and the Middle East aiming to recalibrate design through dissensus.
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Dr Ger Duijzings (Co-director)
Reader in the Anthropology of Eastern Europe. Dr Duijzings researches social inequality, urban transformations and new elites in post-socialist cities, particularly in Romania. He also carries out nocturnal fieldwork in London and other cities focusing on predominantly East European night shift workers and homeless people, documented on the blog www.nightlaboratory.wordpress.com.
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Dr Andrew Harris (Director of MSc Urban Studies)
Lecturer in Geography and Urban Studies. Dr Harris has worked extensively on the role of culture and the visual arts in urban regeneration strategies, with expertise in London and Mumbai. Dr Harris convenes the MSc Urban Studies. He recently ran an AHRC funded international research network on 'Creative city limits: urban cultural economy in a new era of austerity' between 2011-2012. He is a member of the ESRC Peer Review College and Events Coordinator for the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers Urban Geography Research Group.
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Professor Jennifer Robinson (Co-director)
Professor of Human Geography. Previously Professor of Urban Geography at the Open University, she is author of Ordinary Cities, which offers a critique of urban studies from the point of view of cities in poorer countries. Her work challenges the conventional divide between western and 'Third world' cities, and argues for a truly cosmopolitan approach to understanding cities. Her empirical research has been focussed on South Africa, including studies of segregation and state power, and the politics of urban development. She is currently working on methodologies for comparative international urban research, and planning a comparative research project on city strategies and the circulation of urban policy.
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Professor Iain Borden (Bartlett School of Architecture)
Director of Architectural History & Theory and Vice-Dean of Communications (Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment). Professor Borden is currently researching large-scale architectural and urban spaces in cities worldwide, from the Limehouse Link tunnel in London to the Singapore Flyer observation wheel in Singapore, and interpreting these as ways of experiencing different postmodern conditions.
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Dr Victor Buchli (Anthropology)
Reader in Material Culture. Dr Buchli works on architecture, domesticity, the archaeology of the recent past, critical understandings of materiality and new technologies and the anthropology of sustainability and design. Currently, Victor is Co-Investigator of the Adaptable Suburbs Project funded by the EPSRC.
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Dr Claire Colomb (Bartlett School of Planning)
Senior Lecturer in Urban Sociology and European Spatial Planning. As a sociologist and urban planner, Dr Colomb's research interests span urban governance, policies and politics, European spatial planning, and urban sociology.
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Professor Richard Dennis (Geography)
Professor of Human Geography. Professor Dennis's current research focuses on cultural-historical geographies of intra-urban transportation, with particular reference to the London Underground; literary representations of urban life, with particular reference to George Gissing and nineteenth-century London; and flats and apartments in London, Toronto and Montreal, 1870-1930.
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Dr Adam Drazin (Anthropology)
Lecturer in Anthropology.. Dr Drazin works on design and with designers and currently runs the MA programme in Culture, Materials and Design. He aims to promote the broad spectrum of ways in which anthropology engages with design and materials, and explore how dialogues with institutions in the private and public sectors can advance anthropological understandings.
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Michael Edwards (Bartlett School of Planning)
Senior Lecturer in the Economics of Planning. Michael has worked on planning and real estate markets for many years and he is active in London planning, most recently supporting community groups in challenges to the 2009 Draft Replacement London Plan.
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Professor Murray Fraser (Bartlett School of Architecture)
Professor of Architecture and Global Culture, Vice-Dean for Research. Professor Fraser has published extensively on design, architectural history & theory, urbanism, and cultural studies.
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Dr Alexandre Apsan Frediani (Development Planning Unit)
Lecturer in Community-led Development in the Global South and Course Director, MSc Social Development Practice. Development planner specialising in squatter settlement upgrading policies and participatory approaches to development. Areas of expertise include human development, housing, urban development, participation and Amartya Sen's Capability Approach.
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Professor Matthew Gandy (Geography)
Professor of Geography. Director of UCL Urban Laboratory, 2005 - 2011. Professor Gandy is currently working on three main areas: cyborg urbanization (looking at changing relations between the body and the city), urban metabolism (with particular emphasis on cultural histories of urban infrastructure), and cinematic landscapes.
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Laura Hirst (Urban Laboratory Administrator, Secretary)
Laura is currently studying for the MSc Social Development
Practice at the Development Planning Unit. Her research interests include
issues of gender relations and participatory governance.
Jordan Rowe (Urban Laboratory Administrator)
Jordan is currently researching the relation between Germany's transformation into a liberal democracy during the inter-war period and the utopian modernist architecture movement that shaped Berlin in the 1920s.
Pooya Ghoddousi (Student Representative)
PhD student (Geography). Pooya's doctoral research is entitled "Global nomads or temporary citizens: transnational mobility of middling Iranians". Pooya is on the steering committee of Stadtkolloquium, a postgraduate research network for urban scholars, and assists teaching on MSc courses Thinking space and Landscape and politics.
ThienVinh Nguyen (Student Representative)
PhD candidate (Geography). ThienVinh is undertaking a doctoral research project entitled "Oil and the City: Urban development, governance, and the potential for poverty alleviation in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana." She is also on the steering committees of Stadtkolloquium, a postgraduate research network for urban scholars and AfNet, a postgraduate research network for students working on African studies.
Professor Nick Phelps (Bartlett School of Planning)
Professor of Planning. Professor Phelps has wide-ranging international experience in the analysis of development patterns on the urban fringe. His research focuses on the themes of urban governance, sustainable cities, and the changing nature of welfare states.
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Professor Mike Raco (Bartlett School of Planning)
Professor of Urban and Regional Governance. Mike's current work focuses on the London Olympics, privatization, new localism and London governance. He is lead Researcher for the Bartlett School of Planning on the EUFP7 Project: DIVERCITIES - Governing Urban Diversity.
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Kieren Reed (Slade School of Art)
Lecturer in Fine Art. Kieren's practice encompasses sculpture, performance and installation, from studies in form to the production of architectural structures. Currently working on large-scale social architectural commissions for 2013 and new artworks which further consider notions of form and functionality.
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Professor Jane Rendell (Bartlett School of Architecture)
Professor of Architecture and Art, Vice Dean of Research. Jane is a writer and architectural historian/theorist/designer whose work explores interdisciplinary intersections between architecture, art, feminism and psychoanalysis.
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Dr Claire Thomson (Scandinavian Studies and Film Studies)
Lecturer in Scandinavian Film, Head of Department of Scandinavian Studies. Dr Thomson's research and teaching interests centre on eco-critical, post-humanist and multisensory approaches to film, and on interculturality and (post)national identities in film and literature.
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Dr Clare Melhuish
Clare Melhuish is an anthropologist specialising in architecture and the built environment, including Modern Movement architectural heritage and social identity; domestic space and cultures; ethnographic research and urban design and regeneration; and the ethnography of architectural design practice. Prior to joining the Urban Lab she was Research Associate in Geography at The Open University on the ESRC-funded project 'Architectural atmospheres: the role of digital visualising technologies in contemporary architectural practice', which involved a multi-sited ethnography of urban design practice in London and Doha; and co-developer of the cross-disciplinary research project Caribbean Urban Aesthetics, with Art History at the OU.
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Artist in Residence
Rab Harling
Rab Harling is a London based conceptual artist who specializes in experimental large-format photography and sculptural installations. His practice investigates the social occupation of space- from domestic interiors to the urban landscape and focuses on how people construct a sense of place, and how built environments reflect and actively produce particular social configurations and political ideologies. Rab's work intersects with a long-term debate in urban culture and policy regarding the relationships between environment and behaviour.
Trained in the film industry, Rab turned his attention to fine-art photography in 2006, completing an MA in Photography at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts, London (2010). His work has been exhibited in the UK and overseas. Recent examples include 'Reports from an Ordinary Satellite', curated by Val Williams, at the Galerie Der Fachhochschule, Bielefeld, Germany (2010), and at the Rhubarb International Photography Festival, Birmingham (2010), and large scale site-specific installations in the Tower Hamlets Spring Open at the Mile End Art Pavilion, London (2011 & 2012). A solo exhibition of his project 'A Delicate Sense of Terror' was exhibited at Lubomirov-Easton, London in 2013.
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Advisory Board
Ipek Akpinar (Istanbul Technical University)
Karen Bakker (University of British Columbia)
Stephen Barber (Kingston University)
Neil Brenner (Harvard University)
Dominic Church (German Sustainable Building Council DGNB)
Mustafa Dikec (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Adrian Forty (University College London)
Susanne Frank (TU Dortmund University)
David Gissen (California College of the Arts)
Stephen Graham (Durham University)
Peter Hall (University College London)
Gareth Jones (London School of Economics)
Jane Jacobs (Yale-NUS College)
Roger Keil (York University, Toronto)
Patrick LeGales (Sciences Po Paris)
Jorge Francisco Liernur (Torcuato Di Tella University)
Julia Lossau (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Iain Low (University of Cape Town, African Centre for Cities)
Jeremy Melvin (Royal Academy)
Kate Orff (Columbia University)
Ayodeji Olukoju (Caleb University, Lagos)
Vyjayanthi Rao (The New School)
Rebecca Ross (Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design)
AbdouMaliq Simone (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Erik Swyngedouw (Manchester University)
Karen Till (National University of Ireland Maynooth)
Visiting Researchers
Current visiting researchers
Dr Beatrice de Carli
Insurgent Regeneration. A critical review of notions and practices
Beatrice de Carli completed her architectural studies at Politecnico di Milano, Italy, including a PhD in Architecture & Urbanism developed in collaboration with the University of Leuven, Belgium (2011). She has previously held positions as Research and Teaching Assistant at Politecnico di Milano, and has worked in practice in Milan for several years. Since 2011, she has been teaching Urban Design and Urbanism at Politecnico di Milano and KU Leuven. She joined the Urban Lab in January 2014 under the Bartlett Visiting Research Fellows scheme, as part of the Cross-Disciplinary Research Programme and will be supervised by Dr Ben Campkin (UCL Urban Laboratory) and Dr Adriana Allen (Bartlett Development Planning Unit). During her tenure at UCL Beatrice will work on a project entitled 'Insurgent regeneration. A critical review of notions and practices'. The project investigates the notion of 'insurgent regeneration' as a means to explore the capacity of occupant practices to inform and steer state-led discourses on 'sustainable urban regeneration' in inner city areas of the global South. As such, the project aims to address two distinct challenges: the cyclical decay and deterioration of cities and their sustainable resurgence and adaptation, and the housing crisis in the global South – particularly in its manifestation through the informal occupation of vacant and deteriorating buildings and site.
Her research focuses on issues of territorial regeneration, housing and participation in architecture and urban design, specifically in contexts of conflictive spatial change and/ or scarce resources. She is interested in developing creative research and teaching methodologies and alternative modes of spatial practice, including an on-going interest in activist practices in urban contexts. She is a member of Architecture Sans Frontieres Italy, an architectural NGO that works between architecture, community and international development. Recently she has been appointed as vice chair of ASF International.
Eduardo Canteros
Social Work Department, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Santiago
Urban Values from a Grassroots Organisation In Urban Regeneration Process
Eduardo Canteros is a sociologist and social worker who has recently submitted his thesis in Architecture and Urban Studies. He has worked in community participation programmes in public and private organisations, and in academic positions in different social sciences schools in Chilean universities.
Eduardo has research interests in urban collective action, citizen participation, and community knowledge and expertise. Eduardo joined the Urban Lab in January 2014 under the Bartlett Visiting Research Fellows scheme, as part of the Cross-Disciplinary Research Programme. While at UCL Eduardo will be working on a project entitled 'Urban values from a grassroots organisation in urban regeneration', supervised by Dr Ben Campkin (UCL Urban Laboratory) and Dr Alexandre Apsan Frediani (Bartlett Development Planning Unit) using qualitative methods to examine the values around which communities organise when they critique and reject regeneration proposals. The project will build on research conducted in Chile and will involve a comparative dimension.
Dr Andy Merrifield
Dr Andy Merrifield will be working on Neo-Haussmannization, mentored by Urban Laboratory Steering Committee members Michael Edwards (The Bartlett School of Planning) and Professor Murray Fraser (The Bartlett School of Architecture).
Andy Merrifield is a writer, social theorist and urban geographer with a PhD in Geography from the University of Oxford. He has taught at assorted universities in the UK and USA. Merrifield is co-editor (with Erik Swyngedouw), of The Urbanization of Injustice (1995) and author of eight books, including Metromarxism (2002), Dialectical Urbanism (2002), Guy Debord (2005), Henri Lefebvre: A Critical Introduction (2006), Magical Marxism (2011) (which was shortlisted for the 2012 Bread and Roses Prize), and most recently, The Politics of the Encounter: Urban Theory and Protest under Planetary Urbanization (2013).
His many essays and reviews have appeared in publications including Adbusters, The Nation, Harper's Magazine, New Left Review, Harvard Design Magazine, and The Times Magazine.
Andy's new book, The New Urban Question, will be published by Pluto Press in March 2014.
Andy will be leading a seminar series for postgraduate research students and advanced undergraduates during his time at UCL on 'Urban theory and protest: from collective consumption to predatory dispossession'. For more information please click here.
Past visiting researchers
Professor Thea Brejzek
Zurich University of the Arts
The politics of performance
Professor Brejzek is director of the PhD on Scenography at Zurich University of the Arts, and currently Visiting Fellow at UTS Sydney. Professor Brejzek will be Visiting Professor at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL from January to September 2013 as part of a larger research project she is working on, linking up over 10 institutions internationally to explore the politics of performance.
Dr Robin Kim
Department of Geography/Urban Laboratory
JHK Urban Research Lab, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Robin Kim's project explores urban regeneration in London, with particular focus on the area between St Paul's Cathedral and Tate Modern formed by the artery of the Millennium Bridge and Peter's Hill. The proximity of Tate Modern to St Paul's has helped shape this new axial pedestrian link and strengthened the relationship between the commercial centre of the City and the cultural hub of Southwark. At the same time, the narrative of urban intervention created by the new urban quarter has contributed to the transformation of that part of central London. The aim is to explore the form and role of this new urban axis and the way it has reshaped central London's socio-spatial geography. Historical references and policy documents are used to analyse how planners, civic authorities and historians have considered integrating the north and south of the River Thames. For purposes of spatial and visual analysis, conventional survey maps, drawings, sketches, photographs, planning documents and development plans are employed. The research also involves site observation, visitor surveys and Millennium Bridge pedestrian counting data analysis to explore the usage pattern of the axial space and the improvement of pedestrian accessibility on both riversides. This project is supervised by Professor Matthew Gandy.
Anna Mayr
Global cities discourse in urban transformations
Anna Mayr, a PhD candidate at the graduate school URBANgrad at the urban research center of TU Darmstadt, visited the Urban Laboratory in March 2012 and participated in the International Stadtkolloquium. Anna's research is on global cities discourse in urban transformations, taking a comparative view on Johannesburg and Delhi. Her doctoral research project compares local visions of becoming a world-class city in Delhi and Johannesburg.
Aditya Mohanty
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
The politics of governance amongst civil society organisations in Delhi
Aditya Mohanty, a PhD student from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, was awarded a Commonwealth Split-Site Doctoral Scholarship to spend a year (2011-12) at the UCL Urban Laboratory and Department of Geography under the supervision of Dr Pushpa Arabindoo. His research examines the politics of governance amongst civil society organisations in Delhi.
Professor Susan Parnell
University of Cape Town
Leverhulme Visiting Professor
Professor Susan Parnell from the Department of Environmental and Geographical Sciences and the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town joined the Urban Laboratory in January 2012 as a Leverhulme Visiting Professor. She worked with Professor Jenny Robinson in the context of the Urban Laboratory to support international urban teaching and research at UCL. Professor Parnell presented a Leverhulme public lecture in May entitled 'The Crisis in Urban Studies: revolution, reform and reconstruction'. She also undertook teaching and other public lectures in the Geography Department and at the Development Planning Unit, including a Dialogues in Development seminar series at the DPU on African perspectives on urban development planning. She travelled to Manchester and Edinburgh to present further Leverhulme public lectures and build links between UCL, UCT and urban groupings in those Universities. Professor Parnell was also invited to contribute to a range of policy-related discussions, notably with the government Department for International Development.
Maider Uriarte Idiazabal
University of the Basque Country
Fringe landscapes
Maider Uriarte Idiazabal is a PhD candidate at the University of the Basque Country who visited the Urban Laboratory for 6 months, funded by the UPV-EHU. Her research on the urban fringe was supervised by Dr Ben Campkin and Professor Nick Gallent and was presented at Stadtkolloquium 2012.
Recently completed PhDs
Johan Andersson (Planning)
Consuming visibility: London's new spaces of gay nightlife.
Melanie Brickman (Geography)
The resurgence of tuberculosis in London and New York.
David Gissen (Geography/Architecture)
Atmospheres of late modernity the urban production of indoor air in New York City, 1963 – 2003.
Sophie Handler (Bartlett School of Architecture)
A little bit of TLC, (Urban curating, ageing and regeneration in Newham, East London).
Clare Herrick (Geography)
Governing the 'obesity epidemic': putting preventative public health to work in London and Austin.
Joseph Hillier (Engineering)
Hydropolis: a history of water, engineering and power in London.
Leandro Minuchin (Geography)
Material imaginations: architecture, nature and politics in Buenos Aires, 1929-49.
Valerie Viehoff (Geography)
Engineering modernity: the provision of water for Tangier.
Tse-Hui Teh (Engineering)
Hydro-urbanism: reconfiguring the urban water-cycle.
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Pooya Ghoddousi (Geography)
Global Nomads or Temporary Citizens: transnational mobility of middling Iranians.
This research uses the concept of nomadism to go beyond socially or geographically bounded notions of diaspora, citizenship, or local communities that abound in urban and migration studies. An ethnographic study of everyday practices and routines in the lives of my interlocutors (snowballing from my Iranian networks in London) will map the micropolitics of how they build and maintain ties with their human-non-human environments as well as trace their mobile trajectories. The resulting 'cartographies' show the socio-material (dis)organisations of these transnational assemblages using insights from theories and historical examples of nomadism – especially the dynamic nomad/sedentary mixes found in 'dimorphic societies'. In addition to an epistemic contribution to the study of these emerging modes-of-being-in-the-world, this study traces the lines of flight and novel becomings of these transnational assemblages with the phronetic hope of increasing the reflexive agency of the nomadic subjects to navigate their unpredictable lives and negotiate their instances of marginality.
ThienVinh Nguyen (Geography)
Oil and the City: Urban development, governance, and the potential for poverty alleviation in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana.
Funded by a UCL Graduate Research Scholarship and a UCL Overseas Graduate Research Scholarship, supervised by Charlotte Lemanski and Jennifer Robinson
ThienVinh's research explores the themes of urban development, governance, and the potential for poverty alleviation in light of recent oil windfalls in the city of Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana. The discovery of commercial quantities of oil in 2007 off the coast of the city has been marked by the galvanisation of civil society organisations, traditional authorities, different levels of Ghanaian government, and transnational corporations (and their respective governments, which include the UK, US, China, and Norway) wishing to benefit from the promise of oil. Because oil brings about societal upheaval, vis-à-vis heightened economic activity, altered perceptions of place and new opportunities for socio-economic development, this research shall investigate ways in which different actors and groups contest and coordinate for their interests, as they shape the development of this city. Although cities are constantly moving, transforming, and constructing, such moments of profound change provide a rich and dynamic context for studying the reconfigurations of everyday life, politics, and the trajectories of development—giving further impetus for this research to uncover the potentialities of a city to come.
Sabina Andron (Bartlett School of Architecture)
The Site Specificity of City Surface Interventions.
A battle for visibility takes place every day on the surfaces of the city. Drawing strongly from the materiality of those surfaces, inscriptions of various kinds struggle to make their way into our field of vision, by employing different tactics of placement and form. Surfaces display their own inherent frames and contrasting materials, offering opportunities for the marking of visual territories. Whether they are done through size, legibility or crispness, the visual statements of surface inscriptions break the skin of the city into different spots, some blinder and others bolder.
The workings of visibility through city surface inscriptions are the focus of my doctoral research, which aims to record and understand the connections between the materiality of various surfaces and the types of inscriptions they will support.
Through a visual exploration of brick and metal, perspex and paper, Sabina looks for the structural frames of the city and the visual and textual marks that adorn them. Surfaces are territories in themselves and they define a new form of site specificity, which she explores through photographical practice and interpret through semiotic analysis.
Nicola Antaki (School of Architecture and DPU)
A Learning Architecture: Designing environments for municipal primary school children from informal settlements in Mumbai.
Can we change the way we design learning spaces for children from informal settlements in Mumbai, if we approach them with a wider view of educational philosophies and pedagogy, whilst engaging with communities and governing powers and taking into consideration the effect of architecture on learning processes and outcomes? Driven by live practice-led experimental research, this thesis focuses on small-scale situated interventions using a local heritage of design languages, as a means of defining sustainable strategies of practice, using participatory methods within a community and a local culture. The invention and implementation of such strategies are then used to catalyse self-organising processes and activities that would evolve without the need for the architect 'leader', to strengthen a community's engagement with its territory, empowering individuals to generate improvements in their environments.
Mohammed Bakkali (Bartlett School of Graduate Studies)
Developing a climate-responsive urbatecture.
This research focuses on developing a climate-responsive design framework tailored to the early design stages. This will create tools for masterplanning as well as the design of individual buildings, making use of climate-responsive built form indicators and modelling tools. The framework will highlight key features of the urban environment that affect local urban climate by interlinking land use, street canyons and building forms and assessing them in a multi-scaled approach.
Katy Beinart (Bartlett School of Architecture)
Salt as a medium Connected to storytelling and migration through site-specific practice in Brixton.
Sites of 'Salted Earth', (a term first used to refer to District 6, an area of Cape Town demolished by the Apartheid Government), are places loaded with memory, contested by communities with different versions of history. This research seeks to redress the loss of migrant and diasporic histories in public spaces of contested history. This project explores architecture and spatial practices as instruments to reveal and memorialise the invisible, and how participatory approaches can renew these processes. At the intersection between art and architecture, this provides a basis to critique existing modes of memorialisation.
Using 'Salted Earth' as material and metaphor, a 'desalination' process is proposed revealing and making traces visible. Developing intuitive methodologies to work with emotionally contested sites, interventions will be created that draw out emotion. Strategies will be tested that interweave practices to 'heal' contested sites, and to uncover traces in specific places, creating an archive of material highlighting their hidden histories.
John Bingham-Hall (Bartlett School of Graduate Studies)
Mobile communication and the social life of urban public spaces. Funded by an EPSRC Studentship.
Pei Sze Chow (Scandinavian Studies)
Architecture of transnational regions in film. Funded by a UCL Overseas Graduate Research Studentship (2011).
Pei-Sze is a PhD candidate supervised by Dr Claire Thomson in UCL's School of European Languages, Culture and Society. Her research focuses on contemporary cinematic representations of landmark architecture and space in transnational regions and cities, particularly the Øresund and Berlin. The project investigates the synthesis of cinema, architecture, and haptic viewing in order to examine a group of film documentaries/essays that capture the emerging relationships between transnational communities and their architectural environment. In her dissertation, she will consider films by documentarists and filmmakers such as Fredrik Gertten (Sweden) and Uli M. Schüppel (Germany). Her broader research interests include visual experimentation in film, cities, and identity and place-making.
Jae-Sung Chon (Geography)
Modernization and co-evolution of man, machine and nature in three cities: Tokyo, Seoul and Shanghai.
Jae-Sung Chon's PhD research discusses 'urban gaps', forged by postwar elevated urban roads, as latent sites for post-functional and post-carbon imaginations. Taking 'infra-structures' as forms of 'sub-presence' of others, the discussion expands the recent discourses around 'informal urbanism' and imagines spatial conditions for cohabitation and coproduction of human and non-human: a braid urbanism.
Carole Enahoro (Geography/Anthropology)
The planned city, ridicule and the phenomenology of hope: contesting the material structure of power in Abuja, Nigeria.
Mohamad Hafeda (Bartlett School of Architecture)
Negotiating spaces: informal processes for claiming spaces in Beirut. Awarded funding from the Global Supplementary Grant Program, Open Society scholarship and from The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture.
This project based PhD research investigates the design, use and experience of contested boundaries in Beirut. The research investigates, in particular, the negotiation of spaces of sectarian-political conflict and the informal processes and strategies for claiming spaces by different site users and controllers such as residents, militia, and politicians. The study aims to examine the notions of division, connection and negotiation between and within two adjacent and contested sectarian communities of Tarik Al-Jdideh (Sunni majority) and Al-Mazraa (a Sunni and Shiite mixed area with Christian minority) in specific and consequently the ephemeral and concealed borderlines experienced in the city. The research aims to use participatory research methodology by employing design and ethnographic research tools to work with site users/residents on their everyday spatial practices through observation, documentation, analysis and intervention. The research method aims to test the ability of the creative processes to play an active role in sites of conflict by engaging in both; conceptual debates and practical situations inside and outside the geographic site of interest to understand how divisions (or borderlines) are constructed and confirmed in a country as both mental notions and material practices – spatialised and negotiated everyday by people.
Sandra Jasper (Bartlett School of Architecture and Geography)
Cyborg Imaginations: nature, technology, and urban space in West Berlin (1961-1984)
Sandra Jasper's work to date has focused on how cities forge relationships between nature, technology and the human body. Her doctoral thesis, Cyborg Imaginations: nature, technology, and urban space in West Berlin (1961-1984), supervised by Professor Matthew Gandy and Dr Peg Rawes, traces urban change in Berlin in the post-war period. To investigate the shifting boundaries between the body and the city by Sandra draws on concepts from urban political ecology, acoustic ecology and on feminist perspectives on bio-political space.
Charlotte Jones (Geography)
The Revival of the Turkish bath in mid-Victorian Britain
Charlotte's thesis examines the revival of the Turkish bath in 1856 and its subsequent movement in relation to health, reform and the body. Her broader research areas fall into three distinct areas; nineteenth century heterodox medical practices (e.g. hydropathy) and how developments in 'cutaneous science' (dermatology) can be explored under the rubric of the body-space nexus and 'technologies of the self'; the role geopolitics played in the revival of the Turkish bath; and the history of the Turkish bath pre- 1856.
Karolina Kendall-Bush (Film Studies)
Moving city: the ambulatory urban experience in film, memory and walking tours.
'Walking Pictures' is about how tourists walk London. It studies two ways of walking the city: walking tours and film. The thesis seeks to demonstrate how each is implicated in the other's practices. It does so by using three different types of research. First, an historical study of the development of tourist walking in the capital between 1880 and 1939 using the British and expatriate press; the brochures, newspapers, and magazines held by the Thomas Cook company archive; and guidebooks. Second, cinematic textual analysis of actuality footage, travelogues and fiction films that move around the capital in this period. And third, an ethnographic study that follows London's walking tours and interviews walking guides. Combining these disciplinarily diverse approaches, I ask: how can we understand the cinematic experience of London through the experiences of tourists walking its streets?
Diverse disciplinary approaches are brought together to try and understand how walkers interact with the spaces of the city. The thesis contributes to larger discourses in history, geography, and film studies that seek to understand people's movement in the metropolis. More broadly, 'Walking Pictures' addresses how the representations of the city shape not only the way we perceive the spaces we live in, but how we move through them.
Regan Koch (Geography)
Eating in public: Re-imagining collective urban space
This project aims to extend geographical engagement with urban publicness by expanding both the concepts and registers through which everyday public life is apprehended. Central to this effort is an examination of ways in which collective culture is being re-imagined in contemporary U.S. cities through a range of innovative food-related trends. Research focuses on three multi-site case studies: the growth of 'pay-what-you-can restaurants' or 'community kitchens'; street food vending and collective advocacy for vendors; and underground restaurants or supper clubs in private homes.
Torsten Lange (Bartlett School of Architecture)
Critical thinking, complex design: the concept of Komplexe Umweltgestaltung and the problem of complexity and quality in the production of the built environment in 1970s and 1980s East Germany. Awarded funding from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
This thesis explores the issues of complexity and quality in the production of the built environment in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) through, on the one hand, an historic analysis of the theoretical concept of Komplexe Umweltgestaltung [complex design of the environment] as developed by East German architectural theorist Bruno Flierl, and, on the other, a study of construction projects in the capital East Berlin. The aim of the research is to elucidate relationships between architectural discourse within the GDR (and beyond) and building practice during the 1970s and 1980s.
The research is situated within a context of current international scholarship about post-World War II modernity and about new towns and large housing complexes as specific heritage. This international perspective raises questions concerning mutual exchange and observation between the eastern and western parts of divided Germany, and with other western countries such as France and Britain in the late phase of the Cold War.
Lucrezia Lennert (Geography)
The City and the War Machines: Deleuze and Guattari and collective houses in Berlin.
This project looks at the organization of, and struggles around, collective living projects ("Hausprojekte") in contemporary Berlin. Collective houses, the legalized spaces which remain of the German squatter movement of the 1980s and 1990s, are sites in which anarcho-autonomous modes of living, knowledges and practices are elaborated. Increasingly these houses are threatened by the gentrification processes transforming inner-city Berlin as well as by the political will of the city government to eradicate spaces of radical left politics. Through interviews and ethnography the project sets out to understand the non-hierarchical organization and everyday experience of collective living in Berlin, as well how these spaces function as sites of resistance.
Leah Lovett (Slade School of Fine Art)
Playing space: performing the spatial politics of Augusto Boal's invisible theatre. Funded by an AHRC BGP Scholarship.
Leah's practice and thesis begin from an understanding of social structures as spatial and as performed. As an artist, she works collaboratively to make performances, videos, installations and workshops which explore how people negotiate each other and create space through conversation, story-telling and incidental actions. Under the provisional title Playing Space: Performing the Spatial Politics of Invisible Theatre, this practice-related thesis turns to Brazilian theatre practitioner Augusto Boal's descriptions of invisible theatre as a starting point for considering the spatio-political potential of performance and performative writing. This project draws on the ideas and approaches of critical theorists from a variety of disciplines, including Lefebvre, de Certeau, Doreen Massey and Jane Rendell, and is supervised by Amna Malik, Ben Campkin and Jayne Parker.
Sam Merrill (Geography)
The Production of Social Memory in the Landscapes of London and Berlin's Buried Transport Infrastructure.
Sam Merrill's research investigates forms of 'buried' social memory across the physical, representational and experiential landscapes of the London Underground and Berlin UBahn with the intention to reveal how such memory is manifested and contested.
Aaron Mo (Bartlett School of Planning)
Artworks and networks: An ethnographic study of creatives and urban spaces in Manchester and Brno.
A majority of placemaking practitioners and urbanists who are interested in creative-led development have limited knowledge of the actual workings of creative actors, and how the creative industry operates globally. These voids of knowledge hinder our ability to develop effective creative-oriented development and economic policies. Aaron Mo's Planning Studies thesis and visual essay attempts to address the missing pieces of information by identifying the interactions that may catalyse or hinder different phases and activities of a creatives' practice, and dissimilates how it relates with space and place. The investigations are undertaken in Manchester, England, and Brno, Czech Republic, so to avoid the potentially narrow 'World City' findings cliché.
Louis Moreno (Geography)
The Architecture of Financial Crisis: urban design and urban restructuring in the inner city of London and Leeds (1993 - 2008)
This thesis investigates the role capital investments in new buildings and public spaces in the UK played in the physical restructuring of UK cities, against the backdrop of the build up to the 2008 crash. It explores the new commercial landscape of the City of London and Leeds to try to understand the political and economic processes behind urban investment and architectural transformation. Examining the relationship between the development of commercial property investments in office, apartment and retail space and urban regeneration policies the thesis asks: Did the recent era of asset based growth produce a new approach to urban development and design? If so how were new buildings and spaces related to new capital investment and urban development strategies? What does the production of the built environment tell us about the role of contemporary architectural and urban design in urban economic development?
Braulio Morera (Geography)
The politics of sustainability: new environmental metaphors in Chinese urban development
Ana Maria Muñoz Boudet (Geography)
Power, agency and citizenship: public spaces of the city, Santiago de Chile.
Ana María is undertaking her research while working as a consultant with the Gender and Poverty Group of the World Bank's Latin America and the Caribbean Operational Region.
Giles Omezi (Geography)
The history of infrastructure provision in Lagos, Nigeria
Brent Pilkey (Bartlett School of Architecture)
Queering heteronormativity at home in London. Funded by a UCL Overseas Research Scholarship, and a UCL Global Excellence Scholarship (2009).
This thesis offers a London-based contemporary study of the everyday space of home in relation to minoritised sexual identity. Drawing from several disciplines, including architectural history, theorised feminism, queer theory and human geographies of sexuality, the project interrogates the stability of domesticity. Highlighting everyday homemaking practices of more than 40 non-heterosexual households in London, I seek to complicate one overarching regime of power that dominates our cultural value system, known in queer theory as heteronormativity – the idea that sees heterosexuality as the default and natural sexuality to which everyone must conform or declare themselves against.
The research project is a response to two decades of research across several disciplines that have looked at the spatialised ways in which minoritised sexual identity unfolds in, for the most part, 'Western' urban centres. This work shows the ways that sexual minorities stake claim to public and visible spaces of gay identity, the most common examples being commercial gay clusters and spaces where male-male public sex takes place. This body of literature focuses on extraordinary spaces removed from the everyday experience of the majority of society, and in so doing passes over one of the most commonplace spaces where identity is regularly performed: the domestic realm.
Regner Ramos (Bartlett School of Architecture)
The cyborg revival: embodiments, identities, and reconfigurations of urban spaces by mobile technologies.
This dissertation seeks to situate the current spatio-temporal condition of the modern-like cyborg-citizen within the built environment. Where theorists have addressed the role of the cyborg in science, politics, and performance, a fissure in the discourse is left to address the role of the cyborg within architecture. Through theories of performance, participation, embodiment, space, and technology, and innovative methodological solutions, the cyborg might find its home back in urban spaces with the aid of new dimensions in architecture and cyberspace.
From man's dependency on technology, to the cyborg's portrayal in sci-fi cinema; from gender differences, to notions of the abject, the cyborg has cunningly found its relevancy into this research and back into the twenty-first century. Through digital devices, and echoing theories of affection, how do people make sense of themselves, their environments, and interpersonal relationships?
David Roberts (Bartlett School of Architecture)
Public housing and regeneration in London through site-writing. Funded by a UCL Graduate Research Scholarship and an AHRC Studentship in Architectural Design.
The history of housing the working population in Britain has a predictable circularity in architectural form; one generation's panacea becomes the next generation's problem, only to be reappraised with remorse after it has passed. This thesis is a practical and theoretical research project into this cycle. It follows the life of an inner-city housing estate in London to allow its inhabitants to reflect on the utopian promises of public housing in order to reclaim the principles of equality, dignity and security at its foundation.
The project focuses on the Haggerston West Estate built in the late 1930s by the London County Council Housing Department which is to be demolished in 2013 and replaced by a mixed tenure and mixed funded development typical of contemporary regeneration programmes. The retreat of social welfare under austerity measures has paved the way for a dismantling of public housing in ideal and form. This has catalysed a groundswell of renewed interest in housing estates from academics and practitioners seeking to mend their conceptual, built and social fabric. I draw from the work of Alison Ravetz, Andrea Phillips and Paul Watt and the practice of Jane Rendell, Peter Watkins and Mike Pearson to create a dialogue between debates in architectural history, critical theory and housing policy and self-reflexive, socially critical practices in writing, filmmaking and site-specific performance.
Vicente Sandoval (Development Planning Unit)
The progression of vulnerability: A multi-scalar perspective
This study aims to investigate the social production of disaster risk and its relation with contemporary notions of geographical scales. Specifically, this research looks for linkages of the progression of vulnerability at different geographical scales; local, urban, regional, national and/or global. In so doing, this work seeks to contribute to the disciplinary debate on the social production of disaster risk by providing a critical understanding of the progression of vulnerability as a multi-scalar phenomenon.
Ophelie Véron (Geography)
Deconstructing the divided city: Identity, power and space in Skopje.
Astrid Wood (Geography)
Peripatetic planning: an exploration of South African policy mobilizers.
Policy actors, working within formal and informal policy networks have been instrumental in introducing and circulating international and domestic urban planning policy models between cities. The study investigates the role of policy mobilizers in moving information and strengthening municipal connections over the last century of South Africa policy circulation. The focus will be on contemporary policy mobilizers and the South African Cities Network as part of a century of progression towards formal municipal policy networks. In so doing, this research exposes the pivotal role of policy mobilizers in shaping both policies and relationships within cities. The study also draws attention to the resulting municipal collaborations as evidence of constant and continuous policy circulation.
Saffron Woodcraft (Anthropology)
Another failed utopia? Examining social sustainability in new urban neighbourhoods.
Why do some planned new communities flourish and others fail? How do new urban neighbourhoods represent political narratives about what a 21st century city should be? And how are competing ideas about urban development, sustainability, citizenship, community, family and home materialized in new communities? This research will address these questions by looking at how a new community in London is imagined, constructed and inhabited. Saffron is interested in how narratives about London's future, economic growth, housing need and sustainable development are interpreted by the planners, architects, developers and public agencies working on those neighbourhoods to create new visions of urban social life and new built forms.
Stamatis Zografos (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Architecture and fire: an archival approach to architectural conservation.
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The Best Airlines Miles Credit Cards
Rack up points so you can take to the skies.
Summer is the perfect time to travel. The warm weather probably has you itching for a nice vacation to the beach, where you can play in the sun and sip your favorite cocktail. Hitching a plane ride there can be easier, and cheaper, if you have the right credit card.
Some credit cards are better than others when it comes to giving you points for airline miles, says Bill Hardekopf of LowCards.com. "Mileage cards are probably more abundant or lucrative than they were a few years ago, especially for people with excellent credit scores," he says.
In addition to the mileage, these cards come with a number of other perks. "The most significant perk of airline cards is the frequent flyer benefits. The Chase United MileagePlus Explorer waives the first checked bag fee, saving $50 roundtrip; the Delta Gold Skymiles gives priority boarding to cardholders," says Alicia Jao, vice president of travel media at NerdWallet.com, a credit card comparison website. "Other cards provide in-flight savings, accelerated elite status, and priority check-in."
[See 11 Easy Ways to Slash Travel Costs.]
If you don't pay your bill off in full each month, these cards probably aren't for you, Hardekopf says, since many of them charge a high interest rate and an annual fee. But if you will use the card a lot—and responsibly—and are able to rack up points for free flights, consider getting one of these expert-recommended airlines miles credit cards:
Starwood Preferred Amex. "Talk about generous," says Liz Weston, author of Your Credit Score. Although it's not an airline card per se—the card lets you accrue points that can be worth 3 to 4 cents (sometimes more) when you cash them in for Starwood hotel rooms, like the Westin Resort in Maui and the Excelsior luxury hotel in Florence, Italy—the card can be used for frequent flier programs for 30 different airlines.
Just keep in mind that transferring points from hotels to airlines generally reduces the value of your points, says Jao.
Capital One Venture Rewards Card. Weston says she's a big fan of this card, which allows you to buy any airline ticket. The card reimburses you from the points you earn. "I think it's a great fit for those who aren't elite frequent flyers, since you don't have to deal with blackout dates or limited supply," she says. The card will allow you to earn two miles to the dollar on all spending.
"You can really rack up some pretty good points for that," Hardekopf says. There's a $59 annual fee (waived the first year), but Hardekopf says if you spend enough money, you'll make up for the fee.
[See How to Travel on a Budget.]
Chase Sapphire Preferred Card. There's a $95 annual fee (waived the first year), but you get 40,000 bonus points if you spend $3,000 in the first three months. "That's a very nice bonus," says Hardekopf. You get two points for every dollar spent on travel and dining, and one point for every dollar spent on all other purchases.
Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards Card. "If you're looking for a particular airline rewards card, Southwest comes out ahead," says Gerri Detweiller, director of consumer education at Credit.com. Southwest is currently offering a promotion where if you sign up for the card, you receive a free trip. Points range between 6 and 12 per dollar for Southwest flights based on what type of flight you choose. You earn two points per dollar if you use a hotel or car rental purchase, and then one point per dollar on all other purchases. With this card, Southwest waives the annual fee of $69 the first year. You also get 3,000 bonus points when you renew the card.
PenFed Premium Travel Rewards from American Express. Anyone can join the credit union by donating $20 to NMFA or volunteering for the Red Cross. The card gives you five points per dollar you spend on airfare, and one point per dollar you spend on other purchases. You get 20,000 bonus points ($200 for a round-trip ticket) if you spend $650 in the first three months. There's no cap on the rewards you can earn, and the card also has a low interest rate of 9.9 percent. There are no foreign transaction fees and no annual fee.


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Meat & Bone is written and drawn by Katherine Verhoeven, aka VERWHO? She's an illustrator based in Toronto, and on the side she runs not only this comic, but the illustrated food blog 'Drawn and Devoured'. She's published four zines ("The Artichoke", "Dangerous Cooking", "Roaches" "The Wolfwood").
Makin' zines, comics and cooking dinner since the millenium!
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CEE is excited to announce the premiere of "Spotlight On: Financial Literacy" airing on PBS beginning this week. "Spotlight On: Financial Literacy" is a special segment we created to shine a light on the importance of financial literacy education. This 5-minute segment features the new National Standards for Financial Literacy, a framework for K-12 educators to teach financial literacy in the classroom.
The PBS segment emphasizes that financial literacy is about more than learning how to save, invest, or apply for a credit card—it also involves acquiring a set of skills that help students make informed decisions in the context of our ever-changing world. This is why CEE's new National Standards were created, to empower students to avoid poor financial choices, understand economic reasoning behind their choices and better understand their decisions.
"Spotlight On: Financial Literacy" was made possible through funding provided by 1st Financial Bank USA. It's currently airing nationwide on PBS—watch for it on your local stations!


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• Toronto: The Roots of Our Toronto Sound (October 25, 2008)
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Dale Carnegie's book, How to Win Friends and Influence People, is one of the best-selling self-help books ever published.
One might suspect that Justin.tv, an online video startup based in California, is writing its own book, How to Lose Respect and Redirect Users, after it was discovered that the company is redirecting its users to porn sites when they search for certain keywords.
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Chinese labor camp prisoners forced to gold farm
Detainee tells the Guardian that physical punishment would be inflicted if quota not met.
Blizzard's next MMOG already playable
COO Paul Sams confirms that the World of Warcraft-maker's next big project, code-named Titan, has reached an advanced stage of development.
BlizzCon is on for Oct. 21-22
Annual convention of all things Blizzard will once again be held at the Anaheim Convention Center this fall.
Blizzard wins $88.5 million World of Warcraft lawsuit
Legal action against private-server operator nets MMORPG developer-publisher a hefty payday in court.
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm closed beta begins
Blizzard now dispatching invitations for an early look at WOW's third expansion, due out later this year.
Starcraft II launches July 27
Blizzard reveals street date for long-awaited Wings of Liberty, the first installment in three-part sequel to the popular sci-fi RTS.
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- Although BPMN 2.0 is an international standard widely used in practice, interoperability of process models is still an issue. Even between tools and engines claiming to be BPMN compliant the model exchange is often complicated or impossible as the tools produce incorrect model representations or do not support the standardized BPMN serialization format. In this position paper we present reasons for interoperability issues and show why defining a set of constraints derived from the standard is crucial to fix an important subset of those issues. We are currently developing a tool which can check this set of rules automatically.
- Measuring the Portability of Executable Service-Oriented Processes (2013)
- A key promise of process languages based on open standards, such as the Web Services Business Process Execution Language, is the avoidance of vendor lock-in through the portability of process definitions among runtime environments. Despite the fact that today, various runtimes claim to support this language, every runtime implements a different subset, thus hampering portability and locking in their users. In this paper, we intend to improve this situation by enabling the measurement of the degree of portability of process definitions. This helps developers to assess their process definitions and to decide if it is feasible to invest in the effort of porting a process definition to another runtime. We define several software quality metrics that quantify the degree of portability a process definition provides from different viewpoints. We validate these metrics theoretically with two validation frameworks and empirically with a large set of process definitions coming from several process libraries.
- BPMN 2.0 Serialization - Standard Compliance Issues and Evaluation of Modeling Tools (2013)
- Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) 2.0 process models are used more and more, both in practice as in academia. Although academic research mainly focuses on sophisticated semantic checks and extensions there still exist problems in the basic usage of BPMN. This paper investigates issues in BPMN model serializations which arise as a result of the complexity and inconsistency of the standard document. We present a set of serialization constraints as a starting point for sophisticated compliance checks on serialized BPMN models. Furthermore, these constraints are used to perform an evaluation of current modeling tools. This evaluation reveals that the creation of standard compliant models is still a non-trivial endeavor.
- Measuring the Installability of Service Orchestrations Using the SQuaRE Method (2013)
- Service-oriented software consists of middleware, such as application servers and runtime engines, into which service applications are deployed. This middleware is often complex and difficult to install. The deployment of services requires the crafting of deployment descriptors and packaging of applications. As a consequence, the installation of service-oriented software systems can be a daunting task. Installability, however, is an important influencer of the portability of software. Portability in turn is one of the main goals of service orchestration languages based on open standards. In this paper, we investigate the installability of service orchestrations based on the Systems and software Quality Requirements and Evaluation (SQuaRE) method, the new series of software qual- ity standards currently under development by the ISO/IEC. We develop a measurement framework based on SQuaRE and tailored to evaluating the installability of service orchestrations and their runtimes. We validate the measurement framework theoretically and show its applicability in a case study.
- Building Orchestrations in B2Bi – The Case of BPEL 2.0 and BPMN 2.0 (2012)
- Various approaches for service-oriented business-to-business integration (B2Bi) rely on a top-down development methodology. The starting point is a choreography model which is subsequently partitioned into multiple orchestrations. Most current approaches use the Web Services Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) for implementing the latter. At the same time, a plethora of other languages, such as Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) 2.0 process diagrams, is available. As integration partners are free to select the orchestration language of their choice, it should be easy to integrate different orchestration languages with current choreography technology. Language transformation, starting from a suitable format, is a means to achieve this. In this paper, we assess BPEL 2.0 and BPMN 2.0 process diagrams for their suitability for this transformation in a services-based B2Bi setting using a requirements framework identified through a literature study.
- Bridging the Heterogeneity of Orchestrations – A Petri Net–based Integration of BPEL and Windows Workflow (2012)
- Service orchestrations are a powerful tool for implementing intra– and interorganizational business processes that base on services. Several heterogeneous orchestration languages can be found in contemporary IT landscapes. While the Web Services Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) is the de facto standard, others gain attention, including Windows Workflow (WF) in the .NET segment. When integrating orchestrations, incompatibilities between them can easily arise. In this paper, we investigate an automated Petri net–based integration between BPEL and WF to solve these issues with behavioral adapter services. We provide a mapping of WF to Open Workflow Nets (oWFNs) and implement it in a compiler. Thereby, we integrate our approach with existing approaches for BPEL and adapter synthesis and validate the integration with a standards–based case study using the two languages.
- BPEL Conformance in Open Source Engines (2012)
- More than five years have passed since the final release of the long-desired OASIS standard of a process language for Web Services orchestration, the Web Services Business Process Execution Language (BPEL). The aim of this standard was to establish a universally accepted Web Services orchestration language that forms a core part of service-oriented architectures and, because of standardization, avoids vendor lock-in. By now, several fully conformant engines should have arrived in the market. It is our aim to shed light on this situation and to provide a comprehensive picture of the current state of BPEL upport. We present an evaluation of the standard conformance of five open source BPEL engines. To obtain these results we have developed betsy, a tool that allows for a fully-automatic standard conformance testing of BPEL engines. The results demonstrate that full standard conformance in contemporary engines is still far from given.
- A Process for Identifying Predictive Correlation Patterns in Service Management Systems (2010)
- By using the remote functions of a modern IT service management system infrastructure, it is possible to analyze huge amounts of logfile data from complex technical equipment. This enables a service provider to predict failures of connected equipment before they happen. The problem most providers face in this context is finding a needle in a haystack - the obtained amount of data turns out to be too large to be analyzed manually. This report describes a process to find suitable predictive patterns in log files for the detection of upcoming critical situations. The identification process may serve as a hands-on guide. It describes how to connect statistical means, data mining algorithms and expert domain knowledge in the domain of service management. The process was developed in a research project which is currently being carried out within the Siemens Healthcare service organization. The project deals with two main aspects: First, the identification of predictive patterns in existing service data and second, the architecture of an autonomous agent which is able to correlate such patterns. This paper summarizes the results of the first project challenge. The identification process was tested successfully in a proof of concept for several Siemens Healthcare products.
- Proaktives Problem Management durch Eventkorrelation - ein Best Practice Ansatz (2010)
- Im Servicegeschäft werden Eventkorrelationssysteme verwendet, um bevorstehende Systemzustände vorherzusagen und damit Anlagenausfälle zu vermeiden. Aus strategischer Sicht kann dies zu höherer Anlagenverfügbarkeit und bessere Planbarkeit beitragen. Unternehmen, die von diesem Wettbewerbsvorteil profitieren wollen, begegnen dabei häufig zwei grundlegenden Problemen: die Komplexität im Service steigt mit der Anzahl der Korrelationen. Gleichzeitig geht die Kostentransparenz für den Gesamtprozess verloren. Die vorliegende Arbeit zeigt, warum diese beiden Probleme entstehen und wie sie weitgehend vermieden werden können.
- QoS-Enabled B2B Integration (2009)
- Business-To-Business Integration (B2Bi) is a key mechanism for enterprises to gain competitive advantage. However, developing B2Bi applications is far from trivial. Inter alia, agreement among integration partners about the business documents and the control flow of business document exchanges as well as applying suitable communication technologies for overcoming heterogeneous IT landscapes are major challenges. At the same time, choreography languages such as ebXML BPSS (ebBP), orchestration languages such as WS-BPEL and Web Services are promising to provide the foundations for seamless interactions among business partners. Automatically translating choreography agreements of integration partners into partner-specific orchestrations is an obvious idea for ensuring conformance of orchestration models to choreography models. Moreover, the application of such model-driven development methods facilitates productivity and cost-effectiveness whereas applying a service oriented architecture (SOA) based on WS-BPEL and Web Services leverages standardization and decoupling. By now, the realization of QoS attributes has not yet received the necessary attention that makes such approaches suitable for B2Bi. In this report, we describe a proof-of-concept implementation of the translation of ebBP choreographies into WS-BPEL orchestrations that respects B2Bi-relevant QoS attributes.


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5 "..MOST AWESOME BLOCKBUSTER OF 2011.."sdx800 | 02/10/2011 | See all sdx800's reviews (1725)Number 1 Reviewer Number 1 DVD Reviewer Top 100 Games Reviewer Top 10 Gadgets Reviewer Top 10 Toys Reviewer Michael Bay gets so much negativity over these awesome films which is not needed, they are an epic trilogy of films that have certainly grown over the years, Dark of the moon is by far the best with an amazing amount of action that takes up the whole three hours running time, transformers could not have been done with more style taking it way beyond a cheesy 80s cartoon. This has an awesome story, an epic showcase of awesome effects, great robots, Optimus prime is amazing in this film as well as the others, the cast is great, personally I missed the beautiful Megan Fox not being in it but it didnt matter she had a sexy replacement for the eye candy in the film. The music score is epic as always, this is a must see for an epic display of quality action that every blockbuster movie should have!! Transformers fans should be proud!
4 Bayhem Reigns!Kevin1075 | 25/09/2011 | See all Kevin1075's reviews (754)Top 100 Reviewer Top 100 DVD Reviewer Top 100 Music Reviewer Ok, so.................2009's Revenge of the Fallen was a pretty noticeable step down from 2007 and the first Transformers film, which wasn't all that bad really in the first place, so expectations were understandably on the low end for the final film (with Bay directing likely anyway) in the battle of the Autobots vs Decepticons.Oddly enough, here in Dark of the Moon, Bay has actually managed to pull out of the hat a film that actually strives to be coherent (I highly enjoyed the first two anyway, but the second was fairly free fallin') and have a plot, with a start, a middle and even a reasonable twist or two along the way, plus the addition of 3D actually forces Bay to make his camera linger on his lovingly rendered CGI mayhem more than before.The dialogue and acting still isn't up to much (Rosie is a peach to look at but makes Megan Fox look like Jodie Foster when it comes to her performance as the new eye candy) but here who was anyone ever kidding - this is ALL about the visual mayhem up there on the screen.Which - and you have to give him his dues - Bay can orchestrate like no other director around. And he throws everything up there to be seen in his CGI action sequences that look unbelievably realistic, as this time Chicago is demolished and left in ruins through the third act battlezone finale.This film will in no way convert or bring over new viewers, but for Bay fans and those who took to the nature of the last couple films this is just what the carnage doctor ordered!
5 AUTOBOTS ROLL OUT FOR THE LAST TIME!!!PATCHES1989 | 02/07/2011 | See all PATCHES1989's reviews (518)Top 100 Reviewer Top 100 DVD Reviewer Absolutely loved this film just like the previous 2 it was aimed at the audience like me or whoever appreciates Michael Bay's big bang style of filmmaking. No Megan Fox this time and is replaced by unknown model Rosie Huntington Whitely who actually wasnt bad as the love interest of Sam (Shia LeBeouf) and is decent to look at (of course no-one can replace Miss Fox in them stakes). Action is off the hook it really is and using the Apollo moon landing as the basis of the story was an excellent idea...top summer entertainment. Enjoy
3 Film for teenagersBrendanHughes | 26/10/2011 | See all BrendanHughes's reviews (251)None of the Transformers films have really lived up to what i would have expected as a fan of the old 80's cartoons and i feel Micheal Bay's direction is bent towards a young teenage audience and this film features some footage of NASA's moon landings that i personally believe were faked but i can't take away this film is probably the best one out the three and that it has lots of action and tons of special effects.
5 TURN THE VOLUME UP TO 11 AND BRING ON THE NOISE!MovieAddict | 02/07/2011 | See all MovieAddict's reviews (1336)Top 10 Reviewer Top 10 DVD Reviewer After the disappointment of Rise Of The Fallen everything depended on this third chapter of Director Michael Bay's Trilogy.Things did not look too good at the start of production Megan Fox got the boot, there was reported problems with the 3D so all the critics must have been sharpening their knives for Michael Bay.The simple fact is that the critics who love to loath these films will have a field day, not just because it's a Transformers movie but because it'S a Michael Bay movie too a double whammy for them!But for those who just go to the cinema to be entertained will love every jaw dropping minute. Dark Of The Moon deals with all the problems of the second movie and this time gives us a plot with a propper nerative... well for a film about battleing transforming robot aliens it does. The film starts a bit slower this time, where we pick up with Shia LaBeouf after the split with Megan Fox and we get introduced to Rosie Huntington-Whiteley (posh name) who is a under wear mdel in real life and it shows. The fact that the film is all about the clashing of metal she is the only wooded and plastic thing in the film, she even makes Fox look like an oscar worthy actress as she is that aweful, but this is a action film based on Robots and not a film about actors, this actually is a paradox as there is some acting heavy weights in the film, most notably John Malkovich, who is wasted in another mental performance, and also the ever excellent Frances McDormand as the brassy head of op's.Shia LaBeouf is always watchable and has brilliant comic timeing that helps in the clunky first forty minutes.Things do liven up to bedlam after this as the plot kicks in..... Then the action, mass destuction that's off the scale and the NOISE.Transformers is what you want and this delivers, with some of the most jaw dropping action put to screen, the film out does anything in the previous movies. The highlight is the collapseing building as the war destroy's Chicago. The final battle is nothing like anything seen on the big screen. The 3D in the cinema version is truly awesome and I felt myself ducking as cars, buildings and robotic limps spray the screen.I'm not going to beat around the bush. the film is L O N G maybe by half an hour, but so were the other two. some of the comedy is a bit clunky, but serves this type of film perfectly as it never aims to be serious ( how could it) and in the world that we live, where there is unrest in the middle east, terrorist groups looking for revenge for their fallen, I for one cannot think of a better place to switch off from reality for two and a half hours and watch waring transforming robotic aliens slug it out on the big screen.This is what blockbusters are all about, and this is the best Transformers movie to date.See if you like.Transformers.Transformers Revenge of the Fallen.Bad Boys 1 & 2.War Of The Worlds.Battle L.A.Terminator 1 - 4.


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NEW MARKET -- Rested after two days off, Haymarket pitchers dominated New Market, 6-0, in Game 1 of the Valley Baseball League semifinals on Thursday.
"Those days off really set up their pitching staff," New Market manager Lucas Jones said.
The Rebels' main nemesis on the mound was Haymarket's Grant Sasser (6-0). The North Carolina State freshman registered 10 strikeouts in six innings and gave up just one lonely hit.
New Market's only hit was a single by McKinnon Langston to left in the first.
"He had all his pitches tonight and he was throwing them for strikes," Langston said. "He was really tough. He just left a change-up hanging once and I was able to drive it. But I never dreamed that would be the only one we would get all night."
Despite Sasser's dominance on the mound, the Rebels were able to load the bases three times.
"He dominated us and kept us off-balance all night," Jones said. "He's been that good all season. We got some walks and some hit-by-pitches, and were able to get some scoring opportunities. But he made some big pitches when he needed to."
After Langston's hit in the first, a pair of Rebels walked to load the bases with one out. Sasser responded with a strikeout and a pop out to third to end the inning. It was typical of New Market's luck all night.
"Grant's stuff was really working tonight," Haymarket manager Ryan Fecteau said. "He was really effective with his slider and used that to keep them off-balance. The guys out of the bullpen also did a great job."
Jack Leathersich and Mark Andrews combined to keep the Rebels hitless in the last three innings of relief.
New Market starter Mike Graham pitched six solid innings, but Haymarket used the third inning to produce three runs on four hits. Tom Lastella got the big hit in the inning for the Senators, launching a two-run homer over the rightfield fence.
"We had that one bad inning and that really hurt us," Jones said. "But overall, I thought our pitchers did pretty well. It was just a well-pitched game by both teams. The difference was they got the big hits when they needed to."
Graham took the loss, allowing three runs on eight hits. He struck out two and walked four.
Despite the loss, the Rebels were far from discouraged with the outcome.
"We've been crushing the ball for the last few games, and you just knew a game like this was coming up," Langston said. "This series is far from over, though. We've got two -- and hopefully more games left in us."


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