News News stories Image credit: Ahmad Khateib 7 July 2025 Call for Papers: Special issue of Environment and Urbanization Colleagues are welcome to submit EoIs for this special issue edited by UI Associate Melanie Lombard and Martina Manara (UCL) on community-led responses to urban/ peri-urban land conflict, to be published October 2026. 3 July 2025 Workshop on Urban crisis in South African and Colombian cities Urban Institute Associate Melanie Lombard recently ran a final project workshop in Cape Town, collaborating with South African and Colombian scholars and activists as part of her British Academy Urban crisis project. 义 (Yi) means “appropriateness” or “righteousness,” referring to what is morally right and fitting. It conveys the virtue of doing what is just, acting with integrity, and upholding moral principles, regardless of personal gain. 25 June 2025 PLURALIZE website launch As part of the Urban Institute's 10th Anniversary Celebrations and the Sheffield Urbanism summer programme, the PLURALIZE project is launching its new project website! UI 10th and Sheffield Urbanism Programme 9 June 2025 Sheffield Urbanism Summer Programme 23rd June to 4th July 2025 The summer programme is part of the Urban Institute’s 10 year anniversary celebrations and also marks 60 years since the establishment of urban studies and planning scholarship and research at the University of Sheffield. Search Watch guest lecture Tim Morton on the UI YouTube channel Philosopher and ecologist Tim Morton recently delivered a guest lecture as part of the Urban Inhabitation in the Anthropocene Conference funded by the Lo-Act project and is part of a series of events of the Urban Institute’s Signature Programme. 17 May 2023 New special issue on change in infrastructure landscapes Vanesa Castán Broto and Enora Robin have just published a new special issue in the Journal of Landscape Research, which includes an editorial article entitled 'Embracing change in infrastructure landscapes’ 15 May 2023 UI welcomes Simone Toji - Research Fellow at the Maria Sybilla Merian Center Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America Simone is a Newton International Fellow undertaking the project ‘Reconsidering urban narratives in Brazil: Central areas in São Paulo as problems and potentialities.’ 2 May 2023 Book launch - Producing Mayaland Join Claudia Fonseca Alfaro to discuss her new book, Producing Mayaland: Colonial Legacies, Urbanization, and the Unfolding of Global Capitalism from the Antipode Book Series, Wiley. 20 April 2023 Urban Life at the Extensions UI’s Senior Professorial Fellow AbdouMaliq Simone is taking up the third iteration of the Banister Fletcher Global Fellowship. 18 April 2023 Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹ Previous … Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 24 Current page 25 Page 26 Page 27 Page 28 Page 29 … Next page Next › Last page Last »
