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9 June 2025

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.

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.

PLURALIZE symbols — 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.

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!

Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram — Steve Rotheram and Andy Burnham

18 June 2025

Powering the North podcast ‘live’

Listen now to the Urban Radar’s first stand-alone feature podcast “Powering the North: A conversation with Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram”.

Call for speakers - 2021 Earth System Governance Conference

We invite contributions for the Earth System Governance Conference 2021 that focus on one of the three challenges of compound urban crises: unsettlement, unevenness, unbounding.

24 June 2021