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UCL Urban Laboratory is a cross-disciplinary centre for the study of cities and urbanisation worldwide, based at University College London. It carries out research, education and outreach activities both in London and internationally. The Urban Laboratory was established in 2005. UCL Urban Lab co-operates with four UCL departments – The Bartlett; Engineering, Social and Historical Sciences; and Arts and Humanities.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=UCL Urban Laboratory launch )〕 The current director is Dr Ben Campkin, who took on the role in 2011 from Professor Matthew Gandy who was the founding director. The Urban Laboratory runs a number of urban events programmes promoting urbanism, including the annual international peer-reviewed exhibition Cities Methodologies〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cities Methodologies )〕 with the Slade School of Fine Art, and Urban Lab Films,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=UrbanLab Films )〕 a public programme of talks and film screenings on cities. Cities Methodologies has been described by Monocle as a "marketplace of research ideas, () bring lots of different approaches to common urban questions together, and for work to be put in juxtaposition."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=UCL Urban Lab creates a market place of research ideas )〕 Since 2013, the Urban Laboratory has been part of the European Union-funded Erasmus Mundus Urban Lab+ international network of Urban Laboratories, an organisation composed of eight international universities in Europe, Africa, Asia, and Latin America.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Welcome to Urban Lab+ )〕 The project seeks to expand and strengthen competence in the realms of architecture, urban planning and other built environment disciplines. Urban Lab is a partner member along with Technical University of Berlin, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, University of Calabria, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, University of the Witwatersrand, Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Urban Lab+ Partners )〕 In 2012, UCL Urban Laboratory were critical of UCL plans to open a new campus near the site of the Olympic Park in East London on the Carpenters Estate, as detailed in an open letter sent to the university's council.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Urban Laboratory and DPU open letter to UCL Council )〕 The new campus would have required the demolition of the existing estate and relocation of current residents. The plans detailed in the "UCL Stratford Proposition" attracted considerable press attention and caused a student-led opposition group from UCL Union to 'occupy' a room in UCL's Bloomsbury campus. The main objection of the Urban Laboratory (endorsed by The Bartlett's Development Planning Unit (DPU)) was that the plan constituted a missed opportunity to draw on the expertise of the UCL community and show leadership in developing a sustainable and socially equitable approach to regeneration. Plans for the new campus were dropped in May 2013 following a failure for UCL and Newham Council to agree to terms. ==Structure== The current director of the Urban Laboratory is urbanist and architectural historian Ben Campkin. He is also a senior lecturer in Architectural History at the Bartlett School of Architecture.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dr Ben Campkin )〕 He was co-editor of the 2012 book ''Dirt: New Geographies of Cleanliness and Contamination''〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dirt: New Geographies of Cleanliness and Contamination )〕 and writer of the 2013 book ''Remaking London: Decline and Regeneration in Urban Culture''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Remaking London: Decline and Regeneration in Urban Culture )〕 The latter focuses on gentrification, sink estates and the history of regeneration in five areas of London (Somers Town, Elephant and Castle, Kings Cross, Shoreditch and Hackney Wick). Former director Matthew Gandy is a geographer and urbanist. He is co-founder of the Urban Salon which links urbanists across London.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Welcome to Urban Salon )〕 He has taught geography at UCL since 1997, and before that worked at the University of Sussex between 1992 and 1997.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Starting points )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「UCL Urban Laboratory」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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