Prof Vanesa Castán Broto, Dr Hita Unnikrishnan and their colleague H.S.Sudhira have recently published an article “Walk the Pipeline: Urban Infrastructure Landscapes in Bengaluru’s Long Twentieth Century” in the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. Walking reveals how urban…
Prof Maliq Simone was invited to participate in The Paradox of Informal Urbanism seminar series hosted by the Informal Urbanism Research Hub in Melbourne. Maliq presented the first in the series on the ‘The Urban Extensions: Volatile simultaneities of spatial…
Prof MaliqSimone recently moderated a podcast on ‘Mobilization and Advocacy in Massive Urbanization Contexts’ as part of the Urban Political series. In this episode, Maliq invites the four urban thinkers to reflect on Delhi, Karachi, Lagos and Manila by addressing…
Thinking relationally about cities, finance and climate action. Deadline for expression of interest: Sept. 30th 2021 This masterclass series is part of the Urban Climate Finance Network work programme on ‘Decentering Urban Climate Finance.’ Supported by the Urban Studies Foundation,…
UI Director Professor Beth Perry participated in a symposium “Cities coping with COVID-19 Comparative perspectives” for City: Analysis of Urban Change, Theory Action. The Symposium represents an experimental format within CITY aimed at those communities of practice engaged in urban…
Congratulations to Prof Vanesa Castán Broto on her new paper “Queering participatory planning” in the journal of Environment & Urbanization. All over the world, people suffer violence and discrimination because of their sexual orientation and gender identity. Queer theory has…