We are pleased to announce the Urban Institute is a partner in a new international collaborative project ‘The New African Urban University: Building partnerships to realise the promise and potential of sustainable urban transformations’. Led by Zarina Patel, Associate Professor at the…
Launched in September 2020 by Professor AbdouMaliq Simone, the September Schools represented the Urban Institute’s commitment to: generating new theoretical frameworks for understanding urbanization processes; working collaboratively with partners across the world to develop new methodologies of research and engagement; developing new pedagogical instruments for…
Last week Professor Benjamin K. Sovacool of Energy Policy at the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex Business School and the Director of the Centre on Innovation and Energy Demand and of the Sussex Energy Group gave a presentation at the Regional Learning…
We are pleased to announce that our colleague Lindsay Sawyer has a new journal article entitled ‘Bypass urbanism: Re-ordering centerperiphery relations in Kolkata, Lagos and Mexico City’ published in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space. The article is open access here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0308518X20983818
The 10 New Insights in Climate Science 2020 report was prepared by a consortium of 57 leading researchers from 21 countries – including our Urban Institute member Professor Vanesa Castán Broto. As a partnership of Future Earth, the Earth League, and the…
We are excited to announce that Professor Benjamin K. Sovacool will give a keynote speech on “Rethinking energy poverty and best practices for the governance of distributed renewable energy access” at our next Regional Learning Alliance Webinar on 11th February 2021 2pm GMT. Benjamin…