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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.
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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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Education Futures in Action: Schools and the City

What role can schools play in urban communities? On 17th June Professor Beth Perry will participate in the Education Futures conference (Home | Education Futures in Action) organised by the UCL Institute of Education.

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Urban Inhabitation and the Urban Technical: Perspectives

This is a cross-cutting theme at the Urban Institute that draws on insights across our recent work to address questions of planetary ‘habitability’.
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Beyond Inhabitation Lab Seminar Series

Professor Michele Lancione, Full Professor of Economic and Policy Geography and Visiting Professor at the Urban Institute, and his research team in Turin have launched the Beyond Inhabitation Lab Seminar Series.

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The Surrounds: Urban Life Within and Beyond Capture

Congratulations to Professor Simone on the publication of his new book "The Surrounds" by Duke University Press, which offers a new theorisation at the interface of the urban and the political.

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Realising Just Cities: A Video Interview with Professor Beth Perry

Realising Just Cities was a programme of research and action hosted at the University of Sheffield -- a partnership aimed at supporting progressive social, economic and environmental change in the North of England.