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Vanesa Castan Broto
@vanesilla.bsky.social
Working to deliver responses to climate change embedded in places and communities. Based at the Urban Institute, University of Sheffield.

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Louie from TAMPEI presents our work on site hazards
March 23, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Cassava and coconut snack to keep our energies together
March 23, 2025 at 4:00 AM
So incredible seeing Ate Rubby from the Homeless Peoples Federation of the Philippines to create a constructive dialogue about risk during our visit to a HOA in Labo, Camarines Norte
March 23, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Time for a selfie after an exahusting day of fieldwork, with Bev and Louie from the Technical Assistance Movement for People and the Environment (TAMPEI) and Mr Leopold, from one of the homeowners association (HOA) we work with in the project Rurbanise.
March 14, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Yesterday I had the opportunity to explain our new project JustGESI to participants in the annual review of the Transforming Energy Access of the UK's Ayrton Fund. So glad to be part of this.

The Ayrton Fund is but an example of the enormous impact of UK's ODA in the World.
March 6, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Always a pleasure talking with David Dodman, from Rotterdam's Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies, about informality, climate change and urbam futures
January 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
My photos will never make justice to Aïcha's beautiful presentation
January 29, 2025 at 11:00 AM
After the break Aïcha Diallo give us a tour over the urban art history of Dakar and the cultural roots of refuge
January 29, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Today we host our rising stars in the Sheffield Urbanism PhD conference, including the brilliant Pragya Roy, examines the spatial aspects of the maternity health journeys of Dalit women in Calcutta
January 29, 2025 at 10:14 AM
What a privilege to welcome Dr David Dodman from IHS to celebrate Sheffield Urbanism with us
January 28, 2025 at 3:44 PM
'You will be visited by three spirits.'

The three spirits:
December 24, 2024 at 8:02 AM
"Yet cities are more than just sites for action: they are also places where uneven vulnerabilities and inequalities related to climate change are produced and reproduced." Rice, Levenda and Long, 2023

May this beloved book help us walk our climate changed cities in new and bolder ways
December 13, 2024 at 3:21 PM
EE Handbook on Gender and Cities edited by Linda Peake, Anindita Datta and Grace Adenyi-Ogunyakin
My hope is for this handbook to become a foundational text for all of us that approach the City from a feminist perspective.
December 6, 2024 at 2:02 PM
According to Spotify my favorite song this year was Nina Simone's I put a spell on you
December 5, 2024 at 9:39 PM