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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).

Rafaella Lima

Welcome UI Associate Rafaella Lima

Rafaella is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Management School where she is exploring how investor-developer firms direct investment flows and shape urban development across uneven geographies.

Bryony Vince-Meyers

UI welcomes Dr Bryony Vince-Myers as Project Coordinator

Bryony joined the Co-Pro Futures Inquiry as our Project Coordinator in January 2025. She will be working with us until July 2025 to oversee key aspects of the Inquiry's next stage, including managing our Call for Evidence.
Book launch

Book talk: Isaac Rose - The Rentier City

On 30 January 2025 The Urban Riches Research Group held an event on The Rentier City with author Isaac Rose (Manchester Tenant's Union) and the nascent Sheffield Tenant's Union at Channing Hall in Sheffield City Centre.

Urban Radar podcast

URBAN RADAR is here!

In the year of the Urban Institute's tenth anniversary - which also marks 60 years since research and teaching on urban and regional planning began at the University of Sheffield - we have launched a new podcast series, 'Urban Radar'.
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How can cities harness nature in the fight against flooding

The Urban Institute's Professor of Climate Urbanism - Vanesa Castan Broto - recently participated in an interview with Sarah Murray for the Financial Times on how cities are harnessing nature in the fight against flooding.