Dr Mateja Kovacic is a visiting academic at the Urban Institute working on the urban robotics and automation project, with a special focus on social and humanoid robots. This post first appeared in The Conversation. Before I started working on real-world…
Sophie King and Peter Kasaija have recently published a new working paper for the Effective States and Inclusive Development research centre (ESID) entitled State-movement partnership in Uganda: Co-producing an enabling environment for urban poverty reduction? An increasing body of knowledge is…
Festivals are international cultural practices, taking plural forms and expressions across the world. They offer an empirical lens to enrich our understanding about how tangible and intangible cultural heritage combine, collide, conflict and cohere. Festivals are a spatially and temporally…
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…