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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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Book “Climate Urbanism” edited by the UI team
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New special issue of Environment and Planning E features an article on 'Decay and Repair'

Jon Silver has recently published an article “Decaying infrastructures in the post-industrial city: An urban political ecology of the US pipeline crisis” in a special issue of Environment and Planning E journal on the theme of decay and repair.
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Global Urbanism book edited by our visiting Prof Michele Lancione + colleagues by features writing from our team

Global Urbanism is an experimental examination of how urban scholars and activists make sense of, and act upon, the foundational relationship between the ‘global’ and the ‘urban’.
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New debates paper on the importance of the urban transition

Our Associate Researcher Dr Tom Goodfellow and his colleague have published a new discussion paper “On the conditions of ‘late urbanisation’ in the journal of Urban Studies.
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Urban Institute @ the Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference 2021