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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.

Urban crisis in South African and Colombian cities

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.

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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.

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!

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UI 10th and Sheffield Urbanism Programme

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.
Bryony Vince-Meyers

UI welcomes Dr Bryony Vince-Myers as Project Coordinator

Bryony joined the Co-Pro Futures Inquiry as our Project Coordinator in January 2025. She will be working with us until July 2025 to oversee key aspects of the Inquiry's next stage, including managing our Call for Evidence.
Book launch

Book talk: Isaac Rose - The Rentier City

On 30 January 2025 The Urban Riches Research Group held an event on The Rentier City with author Isaac Rose (Manchester Tenant's Union) and the nascent Sheffield Tenant's Union at Channing Hall in Sheffield City Centre.

Urban Radar podcast

URBAN RADAR is here!

In the year of the Urban Institute's tenth anniversary - which also marks 60 years since research and teaching on urban and regional planning began at the University of Sheffield - we have launched a new podcast series, 'Urban Radar'.
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How can cities harness nature in the fight against flooding

The Urban Institute's Professor of Climate Urbanism - Vanesa Castan Broto - recently participated in an interview with Sarah Murray for the Financial Times on how cities are harnessing nature in the fight against flooding.

Riya Singh

Welcome to Riya Singh, Sheffield Urbanism Research Assistant

Riya Singh has joined the Urban Institute until July 2025 to support the Sheffield Urbanism initiative, which brings together, celebrates and strengthens interdisciplinary urban research at the University of Sheffield.