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This year’s Festival of Social Sciences will feature an immersive installation demonstrating the benefits of green schoolyards for school communities and the wider city based on work carried out by Dr. Miguel Kanai in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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The benefits of green schoolyards for school communities
This year’s Festival of Social Sciences will feature an immersive installation demonstrating the benefits of green schoolyards for school communities and the wider city based on work carried out by Dr...
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November 4, 2025 at 11:06 AM
IT'S WORLD CITIES DAY! UN-Habitat (United Nations Human Settlements Programme)

And a new episode of #urbanradar hits the airwaves.

⭐ RADAR 10: 🌳 GREEN RESURGENCE and 🏗️ GAZA RECONSTRUCTION

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Radar 10: GREEN RESURGENCE & GAZA RECONSTRUCTION (+Brexit, +rats, +Louvre heist, +AI Friend and more)
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October 31, 2025 at 8:39 AM
And coming tomorrow online as our birthday celebrations continue...

Keynote Lecture 2: Beyond Splintering Urbanism

Professor Simon Marvin

Tuesday 21 October 2025 - 10:30am to 12:15pm

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October 20, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Today!!!

Sign up for what will be another landmark contribution/provocation from Professor AbdouMaliq SImone..
Join us online to celebrate our 10th Birthday with Professor AbdouMaliq Simone

"That which is not decided: the edges of black urbanities"

Monday 20 October 2025 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm (UK time)

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October 20, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Join us online to celebrate our 10th Birthday with Professor AbdouMaliq Simone

"That which is not decided: the edges of black urbanities"

Monday 20 October 2025 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm (UK time)

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October 16, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Urban-Nature Archives: Spatial Practices of Futurity in Brazilian Amazonia

On 17 September 2025, USF International Fellow Junia Mortimer, based at the Urban Institute made her first talk on her project in the context of the Urban Institute Seminar Series.

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Urban-Nature Archives: Spatial Practices of Futurity in Brazilian Amazonia
On 17 September 2025, USF International Fellow Junia Mortimer, based at the Urban Institute made her first talk on her project in the context of the Urban Institute Seminar Series.
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October 15, 2025 at 9:40 AM
It's our 10th Birthday!!!

As we enter Urban October we are pleased to share a series of events, gatherings and activities organised by the Urban Institute to celebrate ten years of urban research at the University of Sheffield.

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Ten Years of Urban Research – Happy Birthday to the Urban Institute
As we enter Urban October we are pleased to share a series of events, gatherings and activities organised by the Urban Institute to celebrate ten years of urban research at the University of Sheffield...
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October 7, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Listen to the latest episode of Urban Radar
In this episode 'Urban informality and trans-local learning' Melanie Lombard and Diana Mitlin discuss the value of translocal learning to address poverty and inequality

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Listen to the latest episode of Urban Radar
In this episode 'Urban informality and trans-local learning' Melanie Lombard and Diana Mitlin discuss the value of translocal learning to address poverty and inequality for women in low income communi...
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October 6, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Join our team - Research Project Administrator
The University of Sheffield is seeking to appoint a talented and highly motivated administrator to support a number of research projects and activities hosted by the Urban Institute.

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Join our team - Research Project Administrator
The University of Sheffield is seeking to appoint a talented and highly motivated administrator to support a number of research projects and activities hosted by the Urban Institute.
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September 29, 2025 at 9:03 AM
JustGESI launches in Cape Town and Sheffield
- Mainstreaming Gender Equality and Social Inclusion for a Just Energy Transition in Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania.

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JustGESI launches in Cape Town and Sheffield
During Urban October the Urban Institute is delighted to be organising two in-person launches for the JustGESI project - Mainstreaming Gender Equality and Social Inclusion for a Just Energy Transition...
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September 26, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Huge congratulations to Vanesa Castán Broto, Professor of Climate Urbanism, for being selected by the United Nations to join a new group of scientists to help advance science-driven acceleration of the Sustainable Development Goals.

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Vanesa Castán Broto joins new group of scientists to advance SDGs
Huge congratulations to Vanesa Castán Broto, Professor of Climate Urbanism, for being selected by the United Nations to join a new group of scientists to help advance science-driven acceleration of th...
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September 25, 2025 at 8:54 AM
This is happening online today, free for everyone to join

The Gated City: Planning Practice and the Challenges of Urban Fragmentation in Mexico, from Emma Regina Morales

Wednesday 24th September, 5-6pm BST

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Book Launch - The Gated City
The Gated City: Planning Practice and the Challenges of Urban Fragmentation in MexicoThis book launch is  being organised by the Urban Riches theme group, at the Urban Institute.
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September 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
UI welcomes Junia Mortimer USF International Fellow
Following a competitive and successful application process the Urban Institute is delighted to welcome Junia Mortimer as an International Fellow from the Urban Studies Foundation (2025-2026)

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UI welcomes Junia Mortimer USF International Fellow
Following a competitive and successful application process the Urban Institute is delighted to welcome Junia Mortimer as an International Fellow from the Urban Studies Foundation (2025-2026).
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September 23, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Celebrating our brilliant post-docs!
As the National Post-doc Appreciation Week comes to a close, we want to shout out to some of our current post-docs working within the Urban Institute!

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Celebrating our brilliant post-docs!
As the National Post-doc Appreciation Week comes to a close, we want to shout out to some of our current post-docs working within the Urban Institute!
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September 22, 2025 at 7:54 AM
New book from Vanesa Castán Broto + collaborators

Co-production of Knowledge in Action
Emancipatory strategies for urban equality

(OPEN ACCESS with UCL Press)

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Co-production of Knowledge in Action
Co-production of actionable knowledge as a development strategy entails working in partnership with different institutions and sharing power so that communities can participate in planning urban futur...
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September 16, 2025 at 8:13 AM
"The ‘Gaza Riviera’ is a fantasy plan that relies on urbicide and expulsion"

Jon Silver in the Conversation

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The ‘Gaza Riviera’ is a fantasy plan that relies on urbicide and expulsion
The leaked redevelopment plan pays homage to mega projects in the Gulf.
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September 15, 2025 at 11:43 AM
New Paper

“No More Proletariat, or Unhappy People, or Oppressed”: Living Besides and the Collective Sensibilities of “Urban Popular Territories” Open Access

AbdouMaliq Simone

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“No More Proletariat, or Unhappy People, or Oppressed”: Living Besides and the Collective Sensibilities of “Urban Popular Territories”
Abstract. If not resilience, rebellion, or redemption; if not the last will become first; if not the romance with the wretched, how to characterize the pla
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September 12, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Online Book Launch: The Gated City: Planning Practice and the Challenges of Urban Fragmentation in Mexico, from Emma Regina Morales

🕰️ Wednesday 24th September, 5-6pm BST

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#UrbanRiches
September 11, 2025 at 8:33 AM
A new academic year, a new episode of Urban Radar Podcast.

Radar 8: Schooling and surviving in England and Sudan (+policing/protests, +flags/fakes, +mining and cities on the move)

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Radar 8: Schooling and surviving in England and Sudan (+policing/protests, +flags/fakes, +mining and cities on the move)
A new academic year, a new episode of Urban Radar Podcast, brought to you from across our urban studies community at the Social Sciences at The University of Sheffield.
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September 9, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Fugitive Planning and Black Studies: Critical Experiments
October 29 and 30, 2025

"Let us create spaces of knowledge, experimentation and listening where we can study, live and imagine in common"

Further information on the call, eligibility and how to apply here: lnkd.in/e7VNdbiX
September 8, 2025 at 10:31 AM
'Global Corridor' offers a regular round up of some of the most interesting news, stories, data, opinion + academic work on global infrastructure.

Subscribe to Jon Silver's new Substack newsletter here

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September 5, 2025 at 7:24 AM
New evidence of barriers to co-produced research
The Co-Pro Futures project team is excited to share a new report synthesising the evidence gathered through the Co-Pro Futures Inquiry’s national Call for Evidence and Ideas.

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New evidence of barriers to co-produced research
The Co-Pro Futures project team is excited to share a new report synthesising the evidence gathered through the Co-Pro Futures Inquiry’s national Call for Evidence and Ideas.
sheffield.ac.uk
September 3, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Urban labs in times of conflict and post-truth

In this month’s feature of the Urban Radar Podcast, hosts Beth Perry and Tom Goodfellow are joined by Professors Nausheen Anwar and Mona Fawaz, Directors of the Karachi Urban Lab and Beirut Urban Lab respectively.

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Urban labs in times of conflict and post-truth
In this month’s feature of the Urban Radar Podcast, hosts Beth Perry and Tom Goodfellow are joined by Professors Nausheen Anwar and Mona Fawaz, Directors of the Karachi Urban Lab and Beirut Urban Lab ...
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September 1, 2025 at 6:12 AM
URBAN POLITICS OF TRUTH AND WEALTH
- New Urban Radar podcast available now... 🙊 💰

In this month's episode Tom and Beth are joined by Dr Katie Pruszynski and Rowland Atkinson to examine the impacts of political and wealth elites on urban life.

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July 29, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Elites in cities, elite cities: Processes of (dis)affiliation, (dis)connection and distinction

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Elites in cities, elite cities: Processes of (dis)affiliation, (dis)connection and distinction
Rowland Atkinson and Sharda Rozena convened two panels at the Regional and Urban Sociology (RC21) meeting at the conference of the International Sociological Association in Rabat in July.
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July 22, 2025 at 11:39 AM