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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.

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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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Is co-production a ‘good’ concept? Three responses - ScienceDirect

Congratulations to UI Director Professor Beth Perry and her colleagues Catherine Durose and Liz Richardson on the new publication of a new open access paper in Science Direct.

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New NAUU workshop report published

The New African Urban University workshop synthesis report has just been published. The report includes a set of summary briefs that describe the outcomes of three workshops that have taken place in the first quarter of 2022.
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New paper on institutionalisation of urban climate adaptation

Professor Vanesa Castán Broto and her colleague Marta Olazabal have published a new paper in Buildings and Cities that explores what tools enable the institutionalisation of adaptation practices in local governments?
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Submit abstracts for a Special Session on Varieties of Experimental Governance

As part of the 2022 RSA Winter conference, UI’s Professor Vanesa Castán Broto and her colleagues are organising a special session on Varieties of Experimental Governance.

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Meet Prince Guma – newest member of the UI team

Dr Prince Guma is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Urban Institute. His current work is on the GlobalCORRIDOR project, led by Dr Jonathan Silver.