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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).

UI Visiting Fellow - Simone Toji

New release: Simone Toji is a Newton International Fellow the UI

Simone Toji is a Newton International Fellow at the University of Sheffield’s Urban Institute. In this powerful new work, she reconsiders ethnography as a form of appreciation of the contradictions inherent in the making of life itself.
UI - Visiting Fellow, Papia Sengupta

UI welcomes Dr. Papia Sengupta, Visiting Fellow from Delhi, India

Papia is a political scientist and public policy expert who works on the intersectionality between gender, language, education, and urban living in culturally diverse societies.

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New ESRC funded project robotics as a new urban infrastructure

Congratulations to Dr Aidan While and Professor Simon Marvin on their new ESRC funded project “Experimenting with robotics as a new urban infrastructure”.

Schools and communities

Workshop on Schools, Communities and Sustainability

The aim of the workshop is to understand how schools may play a stronger role in place-based environmental sustainability, neighbourhood regeneration, social and economic justice and community cohesion.

Olivia Casagrande

UI welcomes Dr Olivia Casagrande as an associate

Dr Olivia Casagrande is a social anthropologist and her research is concerned with society’s complex challenges such as racial inequalities, political and racial violence, and the (post)colonial city.