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Credit: Shizhi Zhang

Live: Second China Shock @BISA26

In June 2026, Zhengli Huang and Shizhi Zhang, were invited to participate in a featured roundtable discussion at the 2026 British International Studies Association Annual Conference in Brighton.

Surfaces of War

Open call - Surfaces of War, Surfaces of Conveyance: Popular intelligence and military capture in the Mediterranean

A twofold event organised in Turin by Michele Lancione and AbdouMaliq Simone at the Beyond Inhabitation Lab in May/June 2027 to discuss habitability, popular intelligence and militarist turns in the contemporary urban Mediterranean.
Brain in a chip
Credit: Yuichiro Chino

Brain in a chip: biocomputing infrastructure and the limits of urban governance

The world’s first biological computers are here – but are cities ready for living data centres? Simon Marvin explores this in a new open access publication in Urban Geography.

Austerity
Credit: Z Wei

Latest Urban Radar podcast available: Brexit, austerity and youth futures

In this episode Professor Sarah Marie Hall from the University of Manchester reflects on ten years since Brexit and specifically how austerity has altered the lifecourses of young people in Barcelona, Sardinia and Greater Manchester.

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Sign up for second RELA webinar on rethinking energy poverty
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New chapter on the European Green Deal and the challenge of systemic change in urban areas
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Watch the RELA webinar on YouTube!
UI - Climate Urbanism

Interventions Essay on climate urbanism in IJURR
Professor Vanesa Castan Broto smiles at the camera

A new article in Axon: Creative Explorations examines the complexity involved in developing collective voice