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UI 10th and ¾«¶«Ó°ÒµUrbanism Programme

¾«¶«Ó°ÒµUrbanism 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 ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ.
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Raising awareness of water scarcity and innovative community management solutions in Nairobi

A new video project, funded by GO Fund initiative, aims to empower local voices and highlight their innovative water practices, as well as document the complex realities of water access and governance in Nairobi's informal settlements.

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Pushing Boundaries

On 10 June 2025 Professor Beth Perry participated in the Pushing Boundaries Conference hosted by the Young Foundation with UKRI at The British Library.

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Re-framing a semi-periphery: The making of Lisbon as a global real estate market

Urban Institute Research Associate Rafaella Lima has published a new open access journal article on the Lisbon global real estate market for Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space.

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Watch guest lecture Tim Morton on the UI YouTube channel

Philosopher and ecologist Tim Morton recently delivered a guest lecture as part of the Urban Inhabitation in the Anthropocene Conference funded by the Lo-Act project and is part of a series of events of the Urban Institute’s Signature Programme.

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New special issue on change in infrastructure landscapes

Vanesa Castán Broto and Enora Robin have just published a new special issue in the Journal of Landscape Research, which includes an editorial article entitled 'Embracing change in infrastructure landscapes’
UI Visiting Fellow - Simone Toji

UI welcomes Simone Toji - Research Fellow at the Maria Sybilla Merian Center Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America

Simone is a Newton International Fellow undertaking the project ‘Reconsidering urban narratives in Brazil: Central areas in São Paulo as problems and potentialities.’
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Book launch - Producing Mayaland 

Join Claudia Fonseca Alfaro to discuss her new book, Producing Mayaland: Colonial Legacies, Urbanization, and the Unfolding of Global Capitalism from the Antipode Book Series, Wiley.

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Urban Life at the Extensions

UI’s Senior Professorial Fellow AbdouMaliq Simone is taking up the third iteration of the Banister Fletcher Global Fellowship.