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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.

Urban crisis in South African and Colombian cities

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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义 (Yi) means “appropriateness†or “righteousness,†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’s 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 special issue of Society and Space

Congratulations to visiting researcher Professor Michele Lancione and Professor AbdouMaliq Simone on a new special issue. 
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Sustainable Futures Symposium 2021

On 30th November 2021, Dr Linda Westman was invited to participate in a panel debate organised by the Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures.
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Co-production in local climate politics

A new policy brief has been published by Dr Ryan Bellinson examining how the concept of co-production can be used as an approach to promote participative urban climate policy development.
UI - News - Call for papers for workshop

Call for papers for workshop on the seminal Splintering Urbanism
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Citizen participation in planning: from the neighbourhood to the city

On 24 November 2021 at 2pm (GMT) the Urban Institute's Professor of Climate Urbanism, Vanesa Castán Broto, will participate in an expert panel at on online event organised by the International Institute for Environment and Development.