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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.

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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 ‘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.

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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.
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The new enclosure: how land commissions can lead the fight against urban land-grabs

When Boris Johnson sold the 35-acre Royal Albert Docks in London to Chinese buyers in 2013, it was his biggest commercial property deal as mayor of London and one of China’s largest investments in the UK.
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Climate urbanism researcher honored with award for outstanding contributions to climate science

Professor Vanesa Castán Broto, from the Urban Institute at the º£½ÇÉçÇø of Sheffield, has received an AXA Award for her outstanding contribution to climate science. The Award is endowed with €50,000.
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New special issue of Society and Space

Congratulations to visiting researcher Professor Michele Lancione and Professor AbdouMaliq Simone on a new special issue. 
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Sustainable Futures Symposium 2021

On 30th November 2021, Dr Linda Westman was invited to participate in a panel debate organised by the Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures.
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Co-production in local climate politics

A new policy brief has been published by Dr Ryan Bellinson examining how the concept of co-production can be used as an approach to promote participative urban climate policy development.