News News stories Image credit: Ahmad Khateib 7 July 2025 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. 3 July 2025 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. ä¹ (Yi) means āappropriatenessā or ārighteousness,ā 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. 25 June 2025 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! UI 10th and Sheffield Urbanism Programme 9 June 2025 Sheffield Urbanism Summer Programme 23rd June to 4th July 2025 The summer programme is part of the Urban Instituteās 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. Search UI launches Sheffield Urbanism Lecture Series 2023 The Urban Institute is excited to announce the Sheffield Urbanism Lecture Series 2023 on "Robotic restructuring: Cities, climate and ecology". 12 September 2023 New paper on the value of international partnerships for co-producing just cities Beth Perry, Vanesa CastĆ”n Broto and their colleagues Zarina Patel and Rita Sitas have just published a new open access paper in Sage Journals "Alliances, allyship and activism: The value of international partnerships for co-producing just cities". 24 July 2023 Dialogues series - Automating Philosophy Luciana is Professor of Literature at Duke University. She will present āRecursive Philosophy and Negative Machinesā (Critical Inquiry 48:2), part of her forthcoming book, Automating Philosophy 7 July 2023 'Decolonialā city-making: art, music, fashion and aesthetics Please join the Decolonial Cities Collectiveās second Dialogue event, a virtual conversation between Peju Layiwola, Red City Solidarity Disco and AFRI - 17th July 2023, 3pm-4.30pm 7 July 2023 New release: Simone Toji is a Newton International Fellow the UI Simone Toji is a Newton International Fellow at the University of Sheffieldās Urban Institute. In this powerful new work, she reconsiders ethnography as a form of appreciation of the contradictions inherent in the making of life itself. 5 July 2023 Pagination First page Ā« First Previous page ā¹ Previous … Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Current page 23 Page 24 Page 25 Page 26 Page 27 … Next page Next āŗ Last page Last Ā»