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Urban Lifelines: The Future Between Foreclosure and Foreshadowing

UI Emeritus Professor Maliq Simone and colleagues have published a new book on Urban Lifetimes with Polity Press.

Multilocal mobility in times of polycrisis
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Multilocal mobility in times of polycrisis: Reworking centre and periphery

Call for papers for a two-day workshop on 15-16 December 2026 bringing together scholars interested in multilocal practices across the world and related implications for centre-periphery thinking. Deadline 1st November.
Call for papers AAG 2027NYC: Critical Geographies of the Infrastructure Corrido

Critical Geographies of the Infrastructure Corridor

Call for papers AAG 2027NYC: Critical Geographies of the Infrastructure Corridor
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Writing the City

Delivered by the University of Sheffield Off the Shelf Festival of Words is one of the most vibrant literary festivals in the UK, bringing the best in local, national and international literary talent to Sheffield.
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Radar 7: Urban Politics of Truth and Wealth (+AI data centres, +extreme heat, +pick pocketing, +more)

In this episode we are joined by Dr Katie Pruszynski and Professor Rowland Atkinson to explore how political and wealth elites are reshaping cities from New York to London and beyond.

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Urban Radar - New episode

In this month's special feature - Cyborg Rights & the City - Tom Goodfellow and Beth Perry are joined by Simon Marvin and Allan McCay for a conversation on tech and urbanism and advances in neurotechnology.

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Elites in cities, elite cities: Processes of (dis)affiliation, (dis)connection and distinction

Rowland Atkinson and Sharda Rozena convened two panels at the Regional and Urban Sociology (RC21) meeting at the conference of the International Sociological Association in Rabat in July.

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New film on Renewable Energy Short Course for Female Technicians & Engineers

This short film provides an overview of renewable energy training delivered by The Test and Training Center for Renewable Energy Technologies at Mzuzu University in Malawi for two cohorts of female technicians and engineers.

Land Conflict

Call for Papers: Special issue of Environment and Urbanization

Colleagues are welcome to submit EoIs for this special issue edited by UI Associate Melanie Lombard and Martina Manara (UCL) on community-led responses to urban/ peri-urban land conflict, to be published October 2026.