Co-producing Urbanisms

The New Urban Agenda, signed in Quito Ecuador in 2016, calls for a broad and holistic understanding of the strategies and approaches needed to develop more sustainable urban transformations.  Importantly, it appears to correct a cultural-blindness in sustainable development policies…

Victoria Habermehl recently presented at The New Urban Ruins: Vacancy and the Post-Crisis City workshop at Trinity College Dublin. She presented on research in Argentina, focusing on bottom up responses to urban abandonment. Her paper was titled ‘Resisting organised abandonment, everyday…

This article was written by Bertie Russell (Urban Institute) and Oscar Reyes, an Associate Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, and was originally published in openDemocracy. “We’re living in extraordinary times that demand brave and creative solutions. If we’re…

Please see below CFP for session titled Valuing Urban Dissensus: Contested Knowledge Claims in Realising Just Cities as part of the forthcoming RC21 Conference Rethinking Urban Global Justice (September 11-13, Leeds, UK). Abstracts should be sent to the conference organisers…

The Jam & Justice project are producing a map of Participatory Urban Governance. Drawing from across the Global South & North, we are looking to produce a collection of inspiring, workable, and actually existing examples of how citizens can be…

The Urban Institute is delighted to welcome Victoria Habermehl to the team. She has a PhD in Geography from the University of Leeds on organising in-against-and beyond crisis in Buenos Aires, Argentina through the economy, state and territory. Victoria’s research…

A new paper by the Urban Institute’s Beth Perry and Professor Tim May at the Sheffield Methods Institute has just been published. ‘Knowledge for Just Urban Sustainability’ appears in Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability. The article…