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The dark city economy

Illicit finance and the dark city economy

Rowland Atkinson has been writing about the role of illicit finance in harming everyday communities and people in what he calls the dark city economy.
Junia Mortimer
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New episode of the Urban Radar podcast available

In this episode - Seeing the City - Tom Goodfellow and Beth Perry are joined by visiting researchers to the Universities of Sheffield and Manchester, Junia Mortimer and Felipe Magalhães.
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Call for Papers for The RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2026

The Urban Institute Team have a series of CfPs for the Conference later this year on a range of research themes – spatial inequalities, mapping and exploring how just transitions unfold within and beyond China and the geographies of inequalities.

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CfP RGS-IBG 2026: Cities in the Disinformation Age?

Beth Perry, Urban Institute and Tom Goodfellow, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester are organising a session at the RGS in London 1-4 September 2026 and have a Call for Papers on 'Cities in the Disinformation Age.

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New open access Interventions Essay published

Simon Marvin, Colin Mcfarlane and Jonathan Rutherford have published a new article 'Infrastructural Extensions: Rethinking Infrastructure in Urban Studies in the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 10 Issue 1.

The Relational Edge

The Relational Edge: Unlocking Lasting Community Transformation

How can place-based funding create genuine, lasting change that extends far beyond the funding cycle?
Beth Perry and Tom Goodfellow

URBAN RADAR 2025

As Series 2 of Urban Radar starts recording this January, here is your chance to catch up on the first year of episodes.
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The Chaos Precinct: Johannesburg as a port city by Tanya Zack

The Urban Institute and School of Geography and Planning are hosting a guest lecture by Urban Planner and Writer Tanya Zack on her new book "The Chaos Precinct: Johannesburg as a port city" in Teaching Room 1 in the Geography and Planning Building.

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Analysis on GEO-7 report is now published

Professor Vanesa Castán Broto, Principal Investigator for the JustGESI project, shares key insights from the Global Environment Outlook 7 (GEO-7) Report - Insights from GEO-7: A Future We Choose - launched at the UN Environment Assembly in December.