Previous research projects
![Shop in Limehouse Chinatown](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/urban-lab/sites/urban_lab/files/limehouse_chinatown_800x500.jpg)
Architecture and immigration in London: the lost history of Limehouse Chinatown, 1900-1970
Tracing a history of the lost architecture and community of London's original Chinatown in the East End
![Connected Spaces, Controlled Movements: Technology, Surveillance, Security, and Cities](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/urban-lab/sites/urban_lab/files/rodrio_firmino_800x500.jpg)
Connected Spaces, Controlled Movements: Technology, Surveillance, Security, and Cities
What are the territorial implications and manifestations of surveillance and augmenting technologies in contemporary neoliberal cities?
![Creative City Limits roundtable](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/urban-lab/sites/urban_lab/files/creative-city-limits-discussion_800x500.jpg)
Creative City Limits: Urban Cultural Economy in a New Era of Austerity
An international and interdisciplinary research network offering a forum for reassessing the place of creativity in urban economic growth
![Mexico City icon subway map. Credit: Luisalvaz on Wikimedia Commons](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/urban-lab/sites/urban_lab/files/mexico_city_subway_800x500.jpg)
Picturing Place: The Agency of Images in Urban Change
Could a more critically rigorous approach to images in built environment discourse lead to better and more transparent decision making, and representation of a greater range of publics?
![invisible-surplus-space](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/urban-lab/sites/urban_lab/files/00_rubbing_keijo_1937.jpeg)
Surplus Space: Art in Urban Settings
Examining the ways in which contemporary artists engage with issues regarding the remnants of modernisation and industrialisation in urban space
![New York University development plan visualisation](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/urban-lab/sites/urban_lab/files/10a.nyu_approved_core_plan_800x500.jpg)
University-led urban regeneration
Analysing the processes and impacts of urban regeneration initiatives led by universities in the UK and US