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The Sheffield Urbanism Showcase, 2025
The Sheffield Urbanism Showcase, 2025

Sheffield Urbanism Summer Programme 2026

We are pleased to share our Sheffield Urbanism Summer Programme, brought to you by Urban Institute members from across the University of Sheffield.

Amazon Rainforest Brazil
Credit: Ignacio Palacios

Reapproaching extended urbanization in the Brazilian Amazonia

This online keynote is the opening keynote lecture in the Sheffield Urbanism programme. It is supported by Urban Institute in partnership with the University of Manchester (Global Development Institute and Department of Geography).

SDGs
Credit: kazumi miyamoto

Joint session on Frontier Science around the UN Forum on Science, Technology & Innovation for SDGs

Vanesa Castán Broto, Professor of Climate Urbanism, will present at the session 'Frontier Science for the SDGs: Turning Breakthrough Research into Global Action through the GSDR 2027' – on 6 May at 8.15 EST - at a EU Delegation in New York.
Kibera Slum, Nairobi, Kenya
Credit: Emad aljumah

Affordable housing, finance and the state: Towards a global urban comparison

Callum Ward and colleagues have published a new open access article in Urban Studies that argues a further analytical framework is required to research uneven geographies of the global state-housing-finance nexus.
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.

Credit Catherine Falls Commercial

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.