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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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Urban Institute joins World Universities Network project on The New African Urban University
UI - Our collective response - path through trees - Andy Brown

Collectives in Action: An Update from the Urban Institute’s September Schools

The 2nd RELA webinar - rethinking energy poverty - now available to watch

Top 10 insights in climate science in 2020
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Sign up for second RELA webinar on rethinking energy poverty