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EventNews
June 12, 2019

Whose Knowledge Matters Exhibition Opens as part of Manchester Histories Festival Peterloo 2019 Commemorations

An exhibition produced by Urban Institute researcher, Vicky Habermehl, Visiting Associate Liz Mason Deese and community researchers in Greater Manchester has been opened at the Manchester Central Library. Part of the Whose Knowledge Matters project, led by Professor Beth Perry, the exhibition explores the themes of protest,…
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Sophie Rowson
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Life At The MarginsNewsOpinion - Life at the Margins
May 30, 2019

Launching The Radical Housing Journal

Blog post by Michele Lancione (Urban Institute), originally posted via https://www.michelelancione.eu/ I am so proud and energized by the launch of the Radical Housing Journal: a new, peer-reviewed, open-source publication that cuts across the academy and housing movements internationally. Together with…
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Sophie Rowson
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Life At The MarginsNews
May 1, 2019

Horizontal solidarities: Screening and debate at the Casalboccone squat (Rome)

This post was originally published via Michele Lancione's wesbite, on 30th March 19. Yesterday in Rome at the Casal Boccone Occupato resiste e insiste squat we had a powerful exchange Romania-Italy on racism, evictions and housing justice. We screened A Inceput Ploaia and then…
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Sophie Rowson
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Infrastructure in ActionInfrastructure in Action EventNews
April 12, 2019

Call for Papers: Infrastructural futures across cities of the global north

Jonathan Silver at the Urban Institute and colleagues in Boston, Philadelphia, Manchester and Toronto are organising an Urban Studies Foundation workshop on infrastructural futures across cities of the global north. The workshop will be held at the University of Manchester…
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Sophie Rowson
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Climate Urbanism EventEventNews
March 7, 2019

Upcoming Seminar Series: Eco-communities in an urban future

Professor Jenny Pickerill, along with colleagues in the Eco-Communities research group and the Urban Institute are organising a seminar series on Eco-Communities in an Urban Future. The series, funded by the Urban Studies Foundation, will involve three workshops during 2019…
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Sophie Rowson
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Climate UrbanismNews
February 26, 2019

Welcoming new staff!

The Urban Institute are delighted to welcome a new member to the team. Linda Westman is a Postdoctoral research assistant working with Vanesa Castan Broto on the ERC-funded LO-ACT project
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Sophie Rowson
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Climate UrbanismClimate Urbanism EventEventNews
February 22, 2019

Vanesa Castan Broto: Changing Cities in a Changing Climate

Vanesa Castan Broto: Inaugural Lecture Changing Cities in a Changing Climate Wednesday 20th March at 17:30 in the Diamond Lecture Theatre 2 Debates around the need for urgent, radical action have brought cities to the centre of debates about climate change politics. Technology optimists…
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Sophie Rowson
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Co-producing Urbanisms EventNews
December 19, 2018

Realising Just Cities Cape Town Conference

Article originally published via RJC. ‘Comparative Co-production’ was the theme of the 2018 Mistra Urban Futures conference in Cape Town earlier this month, which was attended by members of the Urban Institute’s Realising Just Cities team. Opening drinks at the…
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Sophie Rowson
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EventNews
December 18, 2018

Urban Institute Events Programme 2019

Take a look at the Urban Institute's exciting programme of events for 2019. More details to follow. Vanesa Castan Broto, Inaugural Lecture: Changing cities in a changing climate 20 March 2019, The Diamond - Sheffield This lecture examines how the climate…
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