This Distinguished Lecture is organised by the Oxford Programme for the Future of Cities and the Institute of Science, Innovation and Society, both part of the Oxford Martin School

Speaker: Professor Paul Jenkins, Professor for Architecture Research, Edinburgh School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture (University of Edinburgh) and Professor of Human Settlements, School of the Built Environment, Heriot-Watt University

Summary: This lecture will explore the need for, difficulties in implementing, and some of the findings from a major research programme focusing on an in-depth case study with longitudinal elements undertaken 2009-13 in Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, designed as an inductive study vis-à-vis emerging urbanism in Sub-Saharan Africa. It will focus on how new concept definition based on empirical inter-disciplinary research needs to be the basis for such an improved understanding of cities of the South.

Venue: Seminar Room, 64 Banbury Road, Oxford

All welcome but please register at http://foc2013-jenkins.eventbrite.co.uk/