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180 guests, including architects, planners, film-makers, urban designers and ÂÒÂ×Ðã staff and students, attended 'City Visions', the inauguration of the ÂÒÂ×Ðã Urban Laboratory on 21 April 2009.

Led by Professor Matthew Gandy, Director of the ÂÒÂ×Ðã Urban Laboratory, the panel showcased the variety of urban research taking place at ÂÒÂ×Ðã, addressing such topics as cities and social justice, the urban transition in Eastern Europe, cinema and the city, architecture for the poor and the presence of 'bad nature' such as pests and vermin in twentieth-century London.

The ÂÒÂ×Ðã Urban Laboratory was established in 2005 as an interdisciplinary centre for research excellence.Ìý Its principal aim is to raise the national and international profile of urban teaching and research at ÂÒÂ×Ðã.

In the first instance, the laboratory is drawing on the strengths of four ÂÒÂ×Ðã faculties - Arts and Humanities; the Bartlett; Engineering; and Social and Historical Sciences - and actively engaging with ÂÒÂ×Ðã's Grand Challenge of Sustainable Cities.

A new masters in Urban Studies commenced in September 2008, expanding the ÂÒÂ×Ðã Urban Laboratory's graduate programme and bringing together the best opportunities for urban education and dissertation supervision at ÂÒÂ×Ðã.

To find out more about the ÂÒÂ×Ðã Urban Laboratory or the new MSc in Urban Studies, follow the links at the top of this item.

Image: Professor Matthew Gandy, Director of the ÂÒÂ×Ðã Urban Laboratory, led research into the 'liquid city' of Mumbai, India