This book review was originally posted on the LSE website. According to Jonathan Silver, Cotton and Race Across the Atlantic: Britain, Africa and America 1900-1920 makes a significant contribution to the global history of cotton and our understandings about the…
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…
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…
UI has been invited to join the Future Cities Catapult Expert Advisory Group on a research project on “Performance in Use. The project is designed to provide an evaluation framework that helps urban authorities and the private sector to understand…
UI is working with Professor Donald McNeill at the University of Western Sydney on a new three year funded Australian Research Council on Volumetric Urbanism. This project aims to explain how global built environment and development firms ‘push the envelope’…