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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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Call for papers for RC21 panel session “Ordinary Massive”

The theme of the RC21 Conference this year is "Ordinary cities in exceptional times". Professor AbdouMaliq Simone is organising a panel session on “Ordinarily Massive: Revitalizing Approaches to Large Scale Urbanization" and invites abstracts.

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New report tracks impact of short-term lets in Manchester neighbourhoods

Research summarised in a new report that raises concerns about the proliferation of Airbnb and other short-term letting platforms (STLs) in the city and its effects on local residents.
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Understanding the socio-technical hybridisation of indoor–outdoor relations: Emergent, merged, and stretched

Professor Simon Marvin and Urban Institute visitor Dr Jonathan Rutherford have published a new academic paper in the Royal Geographical Society with IBS.

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The Future of Urban Equality: Final KNOW Conference

The Knowledge in Action for Urban Equality programme will share 4 years of research and capacity building in a conference that will run from Monday 7 – Thursday 10 February 2022 - hosted by The Bartlett Development Planning Unit, UCL.
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The new enclosure: how land commissions can lead the fight against urban land-grabs

When Boris Johnson sold the 35-acre Royal Albert Docks in London to Chinese buyers in 2013, it was his biggest commercial property deal as mayor of London and one of China’s largest investments in the UK.