PUBLIC BOOK DISCUSSION: VASUDEVAN’S ‘AUTONOMOUS CITY’ New Roots Co-operative Shop, Sheffield. 7th February 2019. Part of the Making Space exhibition. Public discussion with Alex Vasudevan (AV) author of The Autonomous City & Sam Burgum (SB), associate researcher at the Urban Institute….
Blog post by Michele Lancione (Urban Institute), originally posted via https://www.michelelancione.eu/ I am so proud and energized by the launch of the Radical Housing Journal: a new, peer-reviewed, open-source publication that cuts across the academy and housing movements internationally. Together with…
The Relational Poverty Network is a USA-based but internationally driven ensemble, which convenes a community of scholars to develop conceptual frameworks, research methodologies, and pedagogies for the study of relational poverty. It is a project inspired and managed by Vicky Lawson and…
China’s ‘Silk Road urbanism’ is changing cities from London to Kampala – can locals keep control?
Poor air quality causes over 7 million deaths a year worldwide, especially in large cities.
“As difficult as it may be for American urbanists like Richard Florida to admit, the seeds of urban transformation are not found in the U.S.”
Aritcle by the Urban Institute’s Hita Unnikrishnan, and colleagues Anushri Visweswaran, and Harini Nagendra originally published via The Wire 17.02.19. When the British expanded their control over India in the 18th and 19th centuries, they began to systematically document the natural…
We all agree that climate change requires an urgent and coordinated response, but how do we go about it?
Michele Lancione was recently interviewed by Milena Belloni of the ERC-StG “HOMInG” project. Read the transcript here.
Professor Vanesa Castan Broto discusses the questions at the core of new research programme “Low Carbon Action in Ordinary Cities”