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The two linked modules URBL0009 (30 credits) and URBL0010 (15 credits) focus on understanding how London’s built environment has been shaped by its global connections and associated population flows, from 1900 to the present. They consider the changing framework of urban governance, architectural and community development at a number of definitive moments, such as the publication of the County of London Plan (1943), the dissolution of the Greater London Council in 1986, the establishment of the Greater London Authority and Mayor of London in 2000, and approaches to culture and the built environment under the current mayor, Sadiq Khan. The modules draw on a multiplicity of sources to analyse urban regeneration and gentrification. They look at the formation of particular places and buildings through a focus on the influence of minoritised communities, cultural practices and intangible heritage. They position the city’s global colonial histories and its social diversity as central to a critical understanding of its urban and architectural heritage and future. The modules ask students to engage critically with questions such as: how do we assess urban and architectural heritage as a social, cultural and economic asset for urban development in complex multicultural and/or postcolonial cities (UNESCO 2011)? How are heritage and culture implicated in contested urban and architectural redevelopment? Participants engage with key debates in the history and theory of urban change in relation to histories of urban social movements, and theories of global cities, social diversity, and critical heritage. These modules pursue Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Urban Laboratory’s transdisciplinary and multi-media approaches; with a specific emphasis on ethnographic, oral, visual and archival methods and sources.Ìý The 15-credit module (Part 1, URBL0010) focuses on historical and theoretical contexts taught through secondary sources and case studies. Students taking Part 1 are welcome to continue to attend Part 2.