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Linda Westman has published a new journal article in Urban Geography

The open access article entitled "The discursive construction of urban climate policy" mobilizes the concept of discourse coalitions to showcase how cities were framed as an arena of intervention in the context of international climate policy.

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Call for Chapters: The Routledge Handbook of Just Transitions

Linda Westman and colleagues are excited to announce a new book project which will capture the complexity and richness of just transition research through a comprehensive interdisciplinary exploration. s
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UN DESA Open Call for Stakeholder Inputs

To support the work of the Independent Group of Scientists drafting the 2027 GSDR, the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) is launching an Open Call for Stakeholder Inputs.
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Borg urbanism: emerging neural infrastructures of urban governance

Simon Marvin has published a new article in Urban Geography that explores the concept of Borg Urbanism to examine the urban implications of neurotechnologies that enable direct, bidirectional interfaces between human cognition and urban systems.
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New Policy Briefing on Cultural Heritage

UI Director Beth Perry and colleagues have just published a new article "Rethinking Cultural Heritage and the Just City: Why, What, and How?" as part of the British Academy GCRF Policy Briefing Series.

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Book Talk - Roadblock Politics: The Origins of Violence in Central Africa

In this talk Dr Peer Schouten will present is book "Roadblock Politics" as part of the ERC funded project GlobalCORRIDOR project seminar series. It will be chaired by Dr Prince Guma and after the presentation there will be a discussion and questions.

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Urban Life-Worlds in Contemporary Pakistan

The ERC project GlobalCORRIDOR is hosting an online event on Monday 27th November 2023 1pm-3pm GMT as part of its seminar series focussing on urbanization processes in Pakistan.
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Congratulations to Dr Jon Silver on the publication of "The Infrastructural South"

"The Infrastructural South: Techno-Environments of the Third Wave of Urbanization" is an in-depth look at the infrastructural landscape of Africa amid the third wave of urbanization, drawing on case studies from Africa and extending further afield.

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Robotics Restructuring Lectures available to watch

This month, Dr Aidan While and Professor Simon Marvin have delivered presentations as part of the Sheffield Urbanism Lecture Series 2023 on "Robotic restructuring: Cities, climate and ecology".