Does History Matter? A Diachronic Understanding of Urban Conflicts

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• Prof. Nadia Charalambous, Assistant Professor of Architecture, University of Cyprus
• Wednesday 30 April 2014, 13:15-14:15
• First-floor Classroom, Department of Architecture, 1-5 Scroope Terrace, Cambridge, CB2 1PX.

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Abstract: This presentation aims to address the spatial and temporal dimensions of urban conflict in the walled city of Nicosia in an attempt to a) further facilitate an understanding of the ways in which urban form influences social outcomes in divided cities and b) explore whether socio-spatial patterns of urban conflicts may have roots in the past and may be better understood as being conditioned by the interaction between “inherited” spatial configuration and contemporary life.

Biography: Professor John Macarthur is Director of the research centre for Architecture, Theory, Criticism and History (ATCH) at the University of Queensland. His research has focused on the conceptual framework and the history of picturesque aesthetics. His book The Picturesque: architecture, disgust and other irregularities, develops his PhD, which was undertaken at The Martin Centre in the late 1980s. John has edited four books and contributed to journals including Assemblage, Transition, Architecture Research Quarterly, Oase and the Journal of Architecture.

This talk is part of the Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 44th Annual Series of Lunchtime Lectures series.

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