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New paper from Seth Schindler & Simon Marvin, Constructing a universal logic of urban control? International standards for city data, management, and interoperability. Cities are increasingly understood as systems that can be managed and transformed through scientific methods of data analysis and automated response.…

A public event this week launched a new report by Jonathan Silver on housing financialisation in Greater Manchester drawing attention to the transformation of the city-region over the last few years as big capital has prompted thousands of new housing…

We have an exciting opportunity in the Urban Institute for a social science researcher with experience in working with communities to achieve more progressive and sustainable cities. You will join an interdisciplinary team in the ‘Realising Just Cities’ programme, a…

The Urban Institute and University of Cape Town teams had a great and productive kick-off workshop in Cape Town 6 - 7 February. The project team from UI and African Centre for Cities (ACC) met in the 2-day workshop, which…

Several activist groups and communities concerned with the right to housing in Italy have organised screening of Michele Lancione’s documentary ‘A inceput ploaia/It started raining’ in the peninsula. One of the aims of this film is precisely that of being…

We are pleased to announce that Dr Victoria Habermehl has co-written a chapter entitled “Networks of alternative economies in Buenos Aires; markets as spaces of contestation” with Nela Lena Gallardo Araya and María Ximena Arqueros. This has been published in…