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Alter-Nativas coresearcher team
Alter-Nativas coresearcher team - Credit Phillip Horn

Urban Radar Podcast :Indigenous Urbanism and Youth

In this month's episode, Beth and Tom mark World Indigenous Peoples' Day and the International Day of Youth with Dr Philipp Horn, School of Geography and Planning, University of Sheffield.

Snow covered city buildings

New publication explores how cities are engineering winter

Professor Simon Marvin and Professor Jonathan Rutherford have published a new open-access article in the Journal of Urban Technology examining how snow has become a form of urban infrastructure.

BRI financed Orange LIne in Lahore
Image credit: Jon Silver

GlobalCORRIDOR newsletter available

Catch up on the latest interesting news, stories, data, opinion plus academic work on global infrastructure projects. #GlobalCORRIDOR14: Mapping the Corridor Geographies of the Belt and Road Initiative.

RC21

Reflections from an Urban Studies Conference

From 20-22 July, colleagues from Sheffield Urbanism attended the RC21 Urban Studies conference in Vienna, on ‘Inequalities and the City: Old Issues, New Challenges’. In this article, members of our PhD community share their reflections.

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The Urban Institute welcomes new member of the team

The UI is delighted to welcome Theodor M Barry Born, an urban geographer working on housing, space, rent, speculation, and social reproduction.
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New Publication: Theorisation of Environmental Justice in Chinese Political Philosophy

Shizhi Zhang, Linda Westman, and Vanesa Castán Broto have published a new paper Political Geography that explores how classical Chinese political philosophy can contribute to contemporary debates on environmental justice (EJ) theory.
TECHNO GARDENING

Rethinking urban nature as technonature

A new Nature Comment by Simon Marvin, Sophia Maalsen and Robyn Dowling argues that urban nature is entering a new phase in which ecological processes are increasingly sensed, modelled and continuously adjusted through digital technologies.

BISA

Live: Second China Shock @BISA26

In June 2026, Zhengli Huang and Shizhi Zhang, were invited to participate in a featured roundtable discussion at the 2026 British International Studies Association Annual Conference in Brighton.

Surfaces of War

Open call - Surfaces of War, Surfaces of Conveyance: Popular intelligence and military capture in the Mediterranean

A twofold event organised in Turin by Michele Lancione and AbdouMaliq Simone at the Beyond Inhabitation Lab in May/June 2027 to discuss habitability, popular intelligence and militarist turns in the contemporary urban Mediterranean.