December 5, 2018
Videos from “The Good City” Conference
Videos from conference: ‘The Good City: Urban Transformations, Comparison and Value’ now available!
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October 10, 2018
The Northern Food Network
This regional event brought together representatives from food networks across the north of England to inspire, collaborate and share best practice. Speakers and discussion focused around 2 themes: • The governance challenge of coordinating food networks - how can we…
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August 9, 2018
Welcoming new staff!
The Urban Institute are delighted to welcome three new members to the team. Charlie Spring and Kristina Diprose are both research associates working at the Sheffield-Manchester Local Interaction Platform funded by Mistra Urban Futures. Charlie will support the Self Organising Action…
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July 3, 2018
Jam and Justice – new coproduced ARC projects
Jam and Justice is a three-year research project funded by the ESRC that aims to test and learn about more participatory methods for urban decision-making. We want to seize the opportunity to make devolution matter in Greater Manchester by creating spaces…
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June 26, 2018
White Paper on Robotics, Automation and the City launched in Liverpool
In-depth reports and recommendations on key robotics sectors released as part of UK Robotics Week (21st – 29th June 2018) On the 20th July the Urban Institute's White Paper on 'Urban Robotics and Automation' was formally launched as a key…
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June 14, 2018
Urban Institute article commended by Urban Studies journal
Nick Taylor Buck and Aidan While were recently informed that their paper “Competitive urbanism and the limits to smart city innovation: The UK Future Cities initiative”, which was published in Urban Studies in February 2017 (Vol 54/2), reached the final…
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May 29, 2018
The 50th anniversary of the La Revolution Urbaine
Michele Lancione, Senior Research Fellow, reflects on Writing the city workshop in Paris, 3-4 May 2018. Numerous events took place across Europe to celebrate the 50 years after the backlash of ’68. Pushpa Arabindoo, Senior Lecturer at UCL, organised a…
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May 24, 2018
Job Opportunity: Research Impact Officer
We are seeking to appoint a part-time Research Impact Officer (80% FTE) on a 9 month contract to join a research team working on the project, Jam and Justice: Co-Producing Urban Governance for Social Innovation. You will work under guidance…
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May 5, 2018
Difficult doings: investigating the challenging practice of sustainable urban development
Hita Unnikrishnan, a Newton International Fellow, recently attending a workshop: 'Difficult doings: investigating the challenging practice of sustainable urban development' at Clare College Conferencing, Cambridge. This workshop was organized by KTH- Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm and The University of Cambridge,…
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April 23, 2018
Our favourite cities – by four urban planners
Prof Vanesa Castan Broto, along with 3 other urban planners, describe their favourite cities. This post originally appeared in The Conversation. More and more people are moving into cities. As growing populations place pressure on urban housing, infrastructure and transport systems,…
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