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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.
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New report on The Political Economy of Public Transport in Greater Kampala
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Call for speakers - 2021 Earth System Governance Conference

We invite contributions for the Earth System Governance Conference 2021 that focus on one of the three challenges of compound urban crises: unsettlement, unevenness, unbounding.
Sheffield at COP26

New briefing: From Asking Why to Thinking How: Emerging Challenges for Urban Climate Action
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Simon Marvin presented at the Regions in Recovery E-Festival 2021
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Restoration of Urban Water Commons

Hita Unnikrishnan and her colleagues have published a new open access article 'Restoration of Urban Water Commons' in Ecological Restoration.