• Open International Lecture
• King William Building, KW215
• Maritime Campus, Greenwich
• Monday 18th November; 6PM

Urban restructuring over the past thirty years has been leading to a sea change in the very nature of the urbanization process. Signs of this change were recognized long ago in such terms as edge cities, outer cities, peripheral urbanization, boomburbs and metroburbia. But few realized that what was happening represented the end of the modern metropolis, the urbanization of suburbia, and the emergence of a very new urban form and way of life. This shift is what is behind such new terms as regional urbanization, city regions, regional cities, megacity regions, megaregions, and such notions as the urbanization of the world and planetary urbanism. This lecture will provide a detailed look at the regional urbanization process as it develops at several different scales.

Edward W. Soja is distinguished Professor (Emeritus) of Urban Planning at UCLA. He is the author of Postmodern Geographies (1989; new Verso edition), Thirdspace (1996), Postmetropolis (2000), Seeking Spatial Justice (2010) and most recently My Los Angeles, forthcoming in 2014 from University of California Press.