# What is the scale of the estate?: Towards a trans-scalar sense of place

What is the scale of the estate?: Towards a trans-scalar sense of place at Department of Geography, Tuesday 3 November 2026, 13:00.

- Price: Free
- Venue: Department of Geography, Gower Street, WC1E 6BT London
- With: Steven Pile
- Go to page: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/social-historical-sciences/events/2026/nov/what-scale-estate-towards-trans-scalar-sense-place

A seminar in the UCL Human Geography Seminar Series, open to staff, students and visitors. Professor Steven Pile of the Open University examines the social housing estate as a dynamic site of spatial negotiation, drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, participatory mapping and a public art intervention on the Hilgrove Estate in north London. His co-authored paper argues that estates are neither purely hyper-local nor borderless, proposing a framework of trans-scalarity to capture how boundedness and openness coexist in everyday estate life.

## Dates

- Tuesday 3 November 13:00 — Department of Geography

Written by a model, sources: [ucl.ac.uk](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/social-historical-sciences/events/2026/nov/what-scale-estate-towards-trans-scalar-sense-place)

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