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Beth Perry and Tom Goodfellow
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.
UI: Tanya Zack

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.
UI A Place in The City, Film Screening
UI A Place in The City, Film Screening

A Place in The City, Film Screening

The Urban Institute and IGSD Cities warmly invite you to a screening of the film “A Place in the City” (2025, 61 minutes) followed by a discussion with the director Gabriel Silvestre (Newcastle University).

Artificial Intelligence and the City

Professor Simon Marvin attends the AAG 2025 in Detroit

Simon attended The American Association of Geographers that brought together members of the global geographic community to learn from Detroit and its rich history of activism and creativity, radical cartography; and ecologies of land and water.

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Call for Papers: Valuation, Space and Power ECR workshop

This two-day early career researcher focussed 'masterclass' workshop will take place in person 23-24 June 2025 in the ICOSS Conference Room, 219 Portobello, S1 4DP and will include different speakers with expertise around a series of themes.

Polly Clifton

Welcome Polly Clifton as Podcast Assistant for Urban Radar

The Urban Institute welcomes Polly as a new student assistant for the Urban Radar podcast where she will book booking facilities, support content development, promote and undertake post-production editing.

Callum Ward

Callum Ward joins as an Urban Institute Associate

The UI welcomes Callum Ward, Lecturer in Valuation and Governance in the Management School, as an Associate, to foster discussions on urban governance and financialisation at Sheffield.
Dhaka Bangladesh

Call for Contributions: Rethinking Urban Nature from the South

As part of Tanzil Shafique's ongoing research project ReWET (www.rewet.info) this hybrid symposium will take place on Tuesday 15th April 2025 1200-1630 in the Arts Tower, University of Sheffield.