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Call for Papers: Special issue of Environment and Urbanization

Colleagues are welcome to submit EoIs for this special issue edited by UI Associate Melanie Lombard and Martina Manara (UCL) on community-led responses to urban/ peri-urban land conflict, to be published October 2026.

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Workshop on Urban crisis in South African and Colombian cities

Urban Institute Associate Melanie Lombard recently ran a final project workshop in Cape Town, collaborating with South African and Colombian scholars and activists as part of her British Academy Urban crisis project.

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涔 (Yi) means 鈥渁ppropriateness鈥 or 鈥渞ighteousness,鈥 referring to what is morally right and fitting. It conveys the virtue of doing what is just, acting with integrity, and upholding moral principles, regardless of personal gain.

PLURALIZE website launch

As part of the Urban Institute's 10th Anniversary Celebrations and the Sheffield Urbanism summer programme, the PLURALIZE project is launching its new project website!

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UI 10th and Sheffield Urbanism Programme

Sheffield Urbanism Summer Programme 23rd June to 4th July 2025

The summer programme is part of the Urban Institute鈥檚 10 year anniversary celebrations and also marks 60 years since the establishment of urban studies and planning scholarship and research at the University of Sheffield.
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New Policy Briefing on Cultural Heritage

UI Director Beth Perry and colleagues have just published a new article "Rethinking Cultural Heritage and the Just City: Why, What, and How?" as part of the British Academy GCRF Policy Briefing Series.

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Book Talk - Roadblock Politics: The Origins of Violence in Central Africa

In this talk Dr Peer Schouten will present is book "Roadblock Politics" as part of the ERC funded project GlobalCORRIDOR project seminar series. It will be chaired by Dr Prince Guma and after the presentation there will be a discussion and questions.

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Urban Life-Worlds in Contemporary Pakistan

The ERC project GlobalCORRIDOR is hosting an online event on Monday 27th November 2023 1pm-3pm GMT as part of its seminar series focussing on urbanization processes in Pakistan.
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Congratulations to Dr Jon Silver on the publication of "The Infrastructural South"

"The Infrastructural South: Techno-Environments of the Third Wave of Urbanization" is an in-depth look at the infrastructural landscape of Africa amid the third wave of urbanization, drawing on case studies from Africa and extending further afield.

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Robotics Restructuring Lectures available to watch

This month, Dr Aidan While and Professor Simon Marvin have delivered presentations as part of the Sheffield Urbanism Lecture Series 2023 on "Robotic restructuring: Cities, climate and ecology".