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Elites in cities, elite cities: Processes of (dis)affiliation, (dis)connection and distinction sheffield.ac.uk/urban-institut…

New Paper from the GlobalCORRIDOR project based here in Sheffield is out in the latest edition of @USJ_online "The unending corridor: Critical approaches to the politics, logics and socio-technics of urban corridorisation" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Interview with Dr. Juan Miguel Kanai (University of Sheffield) at the Institute for Urban Research, Malmo as part of the Nordic Network of Global South Urbanisms, moderated by Yénika Castillo Muñoz youtube.com/watch?v=B5a3fT…

New film on Renewable Energy Short Course for Female Technicians & Engineers This short film provides an overview of renewable energy training delivered at Mzuzu University in Malawi for two cohorts of female technicians and engineers. sheffield.ac.uk/urban-institut…

CYBORG RIGHTS & THE CITY: New UrbanRadar podcast now available A conversation on tech and urbanism with Simon Marvin and Allan McCay Available on open.spotify.com/episode/297TMc… - or wherever you get your podcasts!

Workshop on Urban crisis in South African and Colombian cities sheffield.ac.uk/urban-institut…

Unleashing Finance Capitalism in the City @InvisibleMapper interviews author + organizer @_isaacrose about his book on housing financialization in Manchester, The Rentier City for @Metropolitics_ metropolitics.org/Unleashing-Fin…

UI welcomes Dr Sangita Thebe Limbu as Research Associate sheffield.ac.uk/urban-institut…

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 sheffield.ac.uk/urban-institut…

#UrbanRadar 6 has landed! We're joined by Jenny Preece to dive into building safety in the context of #Grenfell fire anniversary, Sarah J Cooper to consider #trans rights and urban space. Plus, as usual, loads of other issues on our radar this month: open.spotify.com/episode/3I5PCA…

🌍 The Sheffield Urbanism Showcase 🗓️ Tuesday, 1st July 🕰️ 9:00am to 4:30pm A showcase to  celebrate and profile just some of the incredible urban research we undertake across disciplines in the Faculty of Social Sciences here at Sheffield. sheffield.ac.uk/urban-institut…

The Urban Institute is pleased to launch the website of the PLURALIZE project! PLURALIZE is a 5-year research project funded by the (EPSRC) that aims to identify principles + practices of just transitions that can be applied in China led by Linda Westman pluralize.co.uk

Raising awareness of water scarcity and innovative community management solutions in Nairobi sheffield.ac.uk/urban-institut…

Listen now to #Urbanradar's first stand-alone feature! 📢 Powering the North: A conversation with @AndyBurnhamGM and @MetroMayorSteve + our @TheUrbanBeth , asking is Britain wired for inequality between regions? sheffield.ac.uk/urban-institut…

New Paper BROKEN INFRASTRUCTURES AND URBAN SPACIOUSNESS (COMPASSION) @XazaarAdjame (AbdouMaliq Simone) In @IJURResearch onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

New Paper Climate‐controlled conservation: Remaking ‘the botanical metropolis of the world’ Simon Marvin and Jonathan Rutherford in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

EVENT: Urban Research Labs in Times of Conflict and Post-Truth Mona Fawaz (Beirut Urban Lab) + Nausheen Anwar (Karachi Urban Lab) in conversation on the challenges of doing urban research in times of conflict and post-truth July 1st (in-person only) sheffield.ac.uk/urban-institut…

New Paper "A dialogue on global infrastructure-led urbanization: Concepts and reorientations" in Dialogues in Human Geography w/ @InvisibleMapper, @simoneveglio7, @andretwp, Francesca Governa and @EliaApos journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.11…

EVENT: Global CEO peer groups and the capitalist class in Johannesburg, London and Mumbai Katie Higgins 18th June (in person and online as part of our Urban Riches theme Info Here: sheffield.ac.uk/urban-institut…

🚨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 est of urban studies + planning scholarship Info here >sheffield.ac.uk/urban-institut…