March 24, 2021 – Convened by: Victoria Ogoegbunam Okoye and AbdouMaliq Simone The Urban Institute’s Black Urbanism Consultative Forum was held on March 24, 2021 with 25 participants across Europe and North America. The purpose of the forum was threefold:…
On September 4th – 5th, the Urban Institute will host an international workshop discussing the emergence of a ‘New Climate Urbanism’. The workshop brings together over 30 leading scholars from all around the world to think about the past, present and future…
Date And Time Thu, 5 September 2019 17:00 – 19:00 BST Location Interdisciplinary Centre of the Social Sciences, Conference Room 219 Portobello Sheffield S1 4DP Climate change is increasingly being recognised as an emergency. Sheffield and Manchester have both declared…
12-15 November 2018, Kampala International workshop This workshop develops new research questions that think through the heterogeneity of infrastructure provisioning in cities across sub-Saharan Africa.
“Housing informality in Italy: marginality, criminality, activism or speculation?“ A seminar by Professor Francesco Chiodelli (Gran Sasso Science Institute) 12th December 15:30 – 17:00 Teaching Room 1, Geography and Planning Building This seminar will provide an overview of housing informality…
Videos from conference: ‘The Good City: Urban Transformations, Comparison and Value’ now available!
Friday 29th June 2017, 09:30 – 16:30 Seminar room G14, 9 Mappin Street, The University of Sheffield Musical groups and organisations shape and are shaped by their localities in a plurality of ways, reaching in and through communities to achieve tangible…
25th June 2018 (10:30am – 5:00pm) Pam Liversidge Building, Room PLB-D06 Workshop: Sustainable Energy Access in Mozambique and Wider Perspectives on Infrastructure/service Access in sub-Saharan Africa. This workshop represents one of the culminations of our British Academy project, led by…
Monday, June 11, 2018 – 12:00 to 13:30 Manchester Central Library Devolution promised to open up new opportunities for community engagement and empowerment, shifting power from Whitehall to the Townhall. One year on since the election of Andy Burnham as Mayor of Greater…
Location: Department of Geography, Ron Johnston Research Room (C Floor) Date: Tuesday 5th June 2018 Start Time: 1pm (Refreshments available from 12.45pm) All Welcome Professor Vanesa Castan Broto (University of Sheffield) Biography: Vanesa joined the Urban Institute in September 2017,…