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Sharing Lessons from Dhaka’s Wetlands – ReWET ReVIEW 2024–25

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

Construction worker India
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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.

UI Singapre Skyline
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Simon Marvin gives keynote at the Technocratic Governance Conference, Singapore

Simon Marvin delivered a keynote for a session on ‘Speculative Futures’ at the Technocratic Governance and the Politics of Smart City Knowledge Transfer Conference on 22-23 April 2025 hosted by the Singapore Management º£½ÇÉçÇø Urban Institute.

Barbed wire
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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 º£½ÇÉçÇø of Sheffield, Karachi Urban Lab/IBA Karachi, and Lund º£½ÇÉçÇø. Short abstracts (200-250 words) need to be submited by 23 May 2025.
SUI - Madeleine Pill, SUI Associate

Welcome to UI, Associate Madeleine Pill

We are excited to welcome Madeleine Pill from Urban Studies and Planning to join the UI team as an Associate.
The pirate function

The Pirate Function lecture now available on the UI YouTube channel

On 23 November 2022 Professor Kavita Philip, President’s Excellence Chair in Network Cultures, º£½ÇÉçÇø of British Colombia, delivered the second lecture in the Sheffield Urbanism series ‘Co-production and the Future of Urban Epistemics’.
An Expressway in Eastern Africa - Photo by Joel Ongwech

Expressways to the Future? - Event Information

Date: Thursday, 19 January 2023
Time: 12:00-14:00 (EAT); 9:00-11:00 (GMT)
Location: British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA), Nairobi - Kenya
Portal frames at a Greek port

Global Corridors Seminar Series: The Contested Politics of Ports in Greece - Event Information

Seminar title: The Contested Politics of Ports in Greece
Date: Friday, 27 January 2023.
Time: 14:00-16:00 (GMT); 16:00-18:00 (EET).
Friday itinerary for Freedom is a Place

Freedom is a Place: Honoring Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Professor AbdouMaliq Simone was honored to be invited to a day celebrating the scholarship, writing and organizing of Ruth Wilson Gilmore, sponsored by Queens College and the Antipode Foundation and Program in Black Studies, Queens º£½ÇÉçÇø.