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The benefits of green schoolyards for school communities

This year’s Festival of Social Sciences will feature an immersive installation demonstrating the benefits of green schoolyards for school communities and the wider city based on work carried out by Dr. Miguel Kanai in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Urban Radar 10: Green Resurgence and Gaza Reconstruction

It's World Cities Day, designated by UN General Assembly Resolution 68/239. A day to provide an opportunity to promote global interest in urbanization, foster international solidarity in addressing urban challenges, and sustainable urban development.
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Between the Archive and the Repertoire: co-producing urban histories in Belo Horizonte, Brazil

In September 202, the Urban Institute hosted an internal roundtable with Visiting Researcher Junia Mortimer, USF International Fellow, and professor Junia Ferrari, from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil.

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Radar 9: Conflict & Urban Territory - From UK Homelessness to Uprising in Nepal

Radar is joined by Dr Sam Burgum & Professor Simon Rushton to dive into what the new UK Minister for Homelessness should have on their agenda and how we can understand the wider socio-economic issues shaping the recent Gen Z uprising in Nepal.

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Yannis Kallianos joins Urban Institute

The Urban Institute welcomes new Research Associate Yannis who will work on the GLOBALCorridor Project funded by the European Research Council.

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Manchester Offshored: a new report from Sheffield University Management School and University of Sheffield researchers launched

Adam Leaver, Richard Goulding and Jonathan Silver launch a new public interest report on the Manchester Life partnership between Manchester City Council and the Abu Dhabi United Group.
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Urban Institute participate in the DSA conference

On 6th July 2022, the Urban Institute participated in the Development Studies Association Online Conference hosted by the University College London. The theme of this years conference was "Just sustainable futures in an urbanising and mobile world".

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2022 World Cities Report launched by UN-Habitat at the World Urban Forum

Can we anticipate the future of cities? How will we respond to future urban challenges? Vanesa Castán Broto, UI Professor of Climate Urbanism, and her colleagues – Ping Huang, Enora Robin, Linda Westman and Hita Unnikrishnan - contribute to WWR22!
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'The ‘West’ and the ‘Rising Powers’: Coloniality and contestation at the crossroads of just energy transitions'

Urban Institute Associate Ankit Kumar and his colleagues are organising a Special Issue and Workshop in Sheffield on 12-13 January 2023 and have issued a call for papers.