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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.
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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.
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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).

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Registration open for hybrid seminar on "Rethinking urban resistance and democracy"

Dr Papia Sengupta- Urban Institute Visiting Fellow, Delhi, India - announces upcoming seminar "Rethinking urban resistance and democracy: Towards building 'differential solidarities'" as part of her British Academy Visiting Fellowship 2023

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UI launches Sheffield Urbanism Lecture Series 2023

The Urban Institute is excited to announce the Sheffield Urbanism Lecture Series 2023 on "Robotic restructuring: Cities, climate and ecology".

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New paper on the value of international partnerships for co-producing just cities

Beth Perry, Vanesa Castán Broto and their colleagues Zarina Patel and Rita Sitas have just published a new open access paper in Sage Journals "Alliances, allyship and activism: The value of international partnerships for co-producing just cities".
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Dialogues series - Automating Philosophy

Luciana is Professor of Literature at Duke University. She will present “Recursive Philosophy and Negative Machines” (Critical Inquiry 48:2), part of her forthcoming book, Automating Philosophy
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'Decolonial’ city-making: art, music, fashion and aesthetics

Please join the Decolonial Cities Collective’s second Dialogue event, a virtual conversation between Peju Layiwola, Red City Solidarity Disco and AFRI - 17th July 2023, 3pm-4.30pm