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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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Unsettlements: "Real" estates elsewhere in Europe

We are very pleased to announce the launch of a new collaborative project between Sheffield Urbanism and the National Museum of Denmark. 

4th RELA webinar available on YouTube
CESET

Inclusive Urban Development in the Global South: Intersectionality, Inequalities, and Community book launch event
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Inception meeting of the New African Urban University project: “Plugging into Networks within Networksâ€
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CESET feedback on Mozambique’s new draft off-grid regulation

The Government of Mozambique recently distributed a draft off grid regulation and requested comments by the private sector and other relevant stakeholders.