Infrastructure in Action

Jonathan Silver participated in the 'Authors Meet Critics' series run by the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR) and the Studies in Urban and Social Change book series published by Wiley-Blackwell. Joining 20 worldwide participants through an online…

This book is accessible in the best sense of the term and yet offers complex ideas and challenges to traditional planning norms that have shaped a geography of vulnerability across Maputo, says Jonathan Silver. The climate crisis is not an…

How might we conceptualise and research everyday urbanism? This is the question Jonathan Silver from the Urban Institute along with Colin McFarlane at Durham University have responded to in a new paper in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers based on work in Kampala,…

The second HICCUP (Heterogenous Infrastructures of Cities in Uganda Project: Thinking Infrastructure with the South) workshop took place in Kampala in January, with Jonathan Silver from the Urban Institute working with students and the research team to develop the next…

The pace of change in some sub-Saharan African towns and cities is relentless. In Lagos thousands of people arrive everyday to establish new lives, economic opportunities and social connections. Many of these new arrivals will find space in the informal…

At the end of October, Dr Jonathan Silver travelled to Germany where he taught a class at Kassel University’s ‘Disordering African cities’ research group before attending the ‘Inhabiting the Corridor’ workshop at the Max Plank Institute in Gottingen. Organised by…