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Sharing Lessons from Dhaka鈥檚 Wetlands 鈥 ReWET ReVIEW 2024鈥25

Urban Institute Associate Tanzil Shafique is excited to share the first edition of the ReWET ReVIEW 鈥 a reflection on a year of collective learning from learning and action from the The ReWET Consortium.

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New article on infrastructure as territorial stigma

Urban Institute Associate Dr Nebeela Ahmed has published a new open access article entitled "Infrastructure as territorial stigma: labour migrant exclusions in the Indian city" in the International Journal or Urban and Regional Research.

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Simon Marvin gives keynote at the Technocratic Governance Conference, Singapore

Simon Marvin delivered a keynote for a session on 鈥楽peculative Futures鈥 at the Technocratic Governance and the Politics of Smart City Knowledge Transfer Conference on 22-23 April 2025 hosted by the Singapore Management University Urban Institute.

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Untranslatable? The Linguistic Knowledge Politics of Southern Urban Theory

This online workshop will take place on 7 October 2025 between 0900-1700 and is co-organised by the University of Sheffield, Karachi Urban Lab/IBA Karachi, and Lund University. Short abstracts (200-250 words) need to be submited by 23 May 2025.
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Celebration of the Urban Institute's 3rd year of its Sheffield School

The Sheffield School was launched in September 2020. It was conceived as a way to systematically explore the critical issues embodied by the Urban Institute鈥檚 Signature Program, The Politics of Inhabitation and the Urban Technical.
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Registration open for hybrid seminar on "Rethinking urban resistance and democracy"

Dr Papia Sengupta- Urban Institute Visiting Fellow, Delhi, India - announces upcoming seminar "Rethinking urban resistance and democracy: Towards building 'differential solidarities'" as part of her British Academy Visiting Fellowship 2023

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UI launches Sheffield Urbanism Lecture Series 2023

The Urban Institute is excited to announce the Sheffield Urbanism Lecture Series 2023 on "Robotic restructuring: Cities, climate and ecology".

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New paper on the value of international partnerships for co-producing just cities

Beth Perry, Vanesa Cast谩n Broto and their colleagues Zarina Patel and Rita Sitas have just published a new open access paper in Sage Journals "Alliances, allyship and activism: The value of international partnerships for co-producing just cities".
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Dialogues series - Automating Philosophy

Luciana is Professor of Literature at Duke University. She will present 鈥淩ecursive Philosophy and Negative Machines鈥 (Critical Inquiry 48:2), part of her forthcoming book, Automating Philosophy