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Snow covered city buildings

New publication explores how cities are engineering winter

Professor Simon Marvin and Professor Jonathan Rutherford have published a new open-access article in the Journal of Urban Technology examining how snow has become a form of urban infrastructure.

BRI financed Orange LIne in Lahore
Image credit: Jon Silver

GlobalCORRIDOR newsletter available

Catch up on the latest interesting news, stories, data, opinion plus academic work on global infrastructure projects. #GlobalCORRIDOR14: Mapping the Corridor Geographies of the Belt and Road Initiative.

RC21

Reflections from an Urban Studies Conference

From 20-22 July, colleagues from Sheffield Urbanism attended the RC21 Urban Studies conference in Vienna, on ‘Inequalities and the City: Old Issues, New Challenges’. In this article, members of our PhD community share their reflections.

Renewable technologies in Africa
Photo by Vanesa Castan Broto

New publication on the role of community energy in mediating sustainable energy transition

Vanesa Castán Broto and colleagues have published a new open access article in Nature entitled "The role of community energy in mediating sustainable energy transitions in East and Southern Eastern Africa".
JoST poster

Call for Community Consultation: Help shape the Journal of Southern Theorising (JoST)

The Southern Theorising Group-STingG-has launched an open community consultation to help shape the proposed Journal of Southern Theorising-JoST, supported by the Urban Institute at the University of Sheffield and Next50 Research-to-Action Platform.
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Urban Charity Rethought

Could a new approach to charity put communities in control? Discover how One World Together is changing who decides where funding goes and helping tackle urban poverty.

Watch Sam Burgum’s Keynote: Over-exposure

Sam’s keynote “Over-exposure: Enforcement, the Climate Emergency, and Entangled Urban Inequalities” is now available on the Urban Institute’s YouTube channel.
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Black Urbanities in São Paulo and Beyond: A Conversation with AbdouMaliq Simone

In this exclusive interview conducted at the University of São Paulo (USP), the renowned sociologist and urban theorist AbdouMaliq Simone engages in a conversation with Fraya Frehse, Laura Kemmer, and Carolina Moura Lima.

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The Urban Institute welcomes new member of the team

The UI is delighted to welcome Theodor M Barry Born, an urban geographer working on housing, space, rent, speculation, and social reproduction.