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New Urban Radar Podcast: Property and Urbicide

This month, Tom and Beth are joined by Hannah Sender University of Sheffield, and Mariam Bazzi Beirut Urban Lab, to discuss how propertied families in small towns in Lebanon have responded to violence and displacement over the past years.

Street Outreach Santiago
Street Outreach Santiago 2005_Credit:Rodriguez

Urban Radar Podcast: Crisis, Public Health and the City

In this episode Beth Perry andTom Goodfellow are joined by Cristina Temenos, University of Manchester, to discuss a wide range of issues from trust in medicine, responses to COVID-19 and experimentation and evidence in localised healthcare settings.

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AI Urbanism AI urbanismS - tracing urban AI formations through Foucauldian discourse analysis

Jun Zhang and colleagues have published a new open access journal article in Urban Geography. This argues that urban AI should not be understood as a single, inevitable next stage of the smart city.

dark room in an abandoned factory in MCR
Credit: Pete Rowbottom

Linda Westman has published a new journal article in Urban Geography

The open access article entitled "The discursive construction of urban climate policy" mobilizes the concept of discourse coalitions to showcase how cities were framed as an arena of intervention in the context of international climate policy.

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Call for Chapters: The Routledge Handbook of Just Transitions

Linda Westman and colleagues are excited to announce a new book project which will capture the complexity and richness of just transition research through a comprehensive interdisciplinary exploration.

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UN DESA Open Call for Stakeholder Inputs

To support the work of the Independent Group of Scientists drafting the 2027 GSDR, the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) is launching an Open Call for Stakeholder Inputs.
Borg Urbanism

Borg urbanism: emerging neural infrastructures of urban governance

Simon Marvin has published a new article in Urban Geography that explores the concept of Borg Urbanism to examine the urban implications of neurotechnologies that enable direct, bidirectional interfaces between human cognition and urban systems.
UI Book talk: Artery: Racial Ecologies on Colombia’s Magdalena River

Book Talk - Artery: Racial Ecologies on Colombia’s Magdalena River

Austin Zeiderman, Professor of Geography in the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics will discuss his new book on Monday 23 March 2026 3p-4pm in Teaching Room 2 in the Geography and Planning Building.

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New episode Urban Radar: Urban Robotics by Stealth

In this episode Tom and Beth are joined by Professor Aidan While from the University of Sheffield to explore how robotic urban infrastructures are already reshaping everyday lives, homes and mobilities.