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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.
BISA

Live: Second China Shock @BISA26

In June 2026, Zhengli Huang and Shizhi Zhang, were invited to participate in a featured roundtable discussion at the 2026 British International Studies Association Annual Conference in Brighton.

Surfaces of War

Open call - Surfaces of War, Surfaces of Conveyance: Popular intelligence and military capture in the Mediterranean

A twofold event organised in Turin by Michele Lancione and AbdouMaliq Simone at the Beyond Inhabitation Lab in May/June 2027 to discuss habitability, popular intelligence and militarist turns in the contemporary urban Mediterranean.
Brain in a chip

Brain in a chip: biocomputing infrastructure and the limits of urban governance

The world’s first biological computers are here – but are cities ready for living data centres? Simon Marvin explores this in a new open access publication in Urban Geography.

Progress happens at the speed of trust

Progress happens at the speed of trust: new report on community-university partnerships

New co-authored a new case study report for Local Trust, examining what it takes to build genuine, lasting partnerships between universities and the communities they are part of has been published
Austerity

Latest Urban Radar podcast available: Brexit, austerity and youth futures

In this episode Professor Sarah Marie Hall from the University of Manchester reflects on ten years since Brexit and specifically how austerity has altered the lifecourses of young people in Barcelona, Sardinia and Greater Manchester.