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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.
Dhaka Bangladesh

Call for Contributions: Rethinking Urban Nature from the South

As part of Tanzil Shafique's ongoing research project ReWET (www.rewet.info) this hybrid symposium will take place on Tuesday 15th April 2025 1200-1630 in the Arts Tower, University of Sheffield.

Rafaella Lima

Welcome UI Associate Rafaella Lima

Rafaella is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Management School where she is exploring how investor-developer firms direct investment flows and shape urban development across uneven geographies.

Bryony Vince-Meyers

UI welcomes Dr Bryony Vince-Myers as Project Coordinator

Bryony joined the Co-Pro Futures Inquiry as our Project Coordinator in January 2025. She will be working with us until July 2025 to oversee key aspects of the Inquiry's next stage, including managing our Call for Evidence.
Book launch

Book talk: Isaac Rose - The Rentier City

On 30 January 2025 The Urban Riches Research Group held an event on The Rentier City with author Isaac Rose (Manchester Tenant's Union) and the nascent Sheffield Tenant's Union at Channing Hall in Sheffield City Centre.

Urban Radar podcast

URBAN RADAR is here!

In the year of the Urban Institute's tenth anniversary - which also marks 60 years since research and teaching on urban and regional planning began at the University of Sheffield - we have launched a new podcast series, 'Urban Radar'.