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New Urban Radar Podcast: Property and Urbicide

This month, Tom and Beth are joined by Hannah Sender ±¬ÁÏTV, and Mariam Bazzi Beirut Urban Lab, to discuss how propertied families in small towns in Lebanon have responded to violence and displacement over the past years.

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Urban Radar Podcast: Crisis, Public Health and the City

In this episode Beth Perry andTom Goodfellow are joined by Cristina Temenos, University of Manchester, to discuss a wide range of issues from trust in medicine, responses to COVID-19 and experimentation and evidence in localised healthcare settings.

AI Discourse

AI Urbanism AI urbanismS - tracing urban AI formations through Foucauldian discourse analysis

Jun Zhang and colleagues have published a new open access journal article in Urban Geography. This argues that urban AI should not be understood as a single, inevitable next stage of the smart city.

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Linda Westman has published a new journal article in Urban Geography

The open access article entitled "The discursive construction of urban climate policy" mobilizes the concept of discourse coalitions to showcase how cities were framed as an arena of intervention in the context of international climate policy.

UI Visiting Fellow - Simone Toji

UI welcomes Simone Toji - Research Fellow at the Maria Sybilla Merian Center Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America

Simone is a Newton International Fellow undertaking the project ‘Reconsidering urban narratives in Brazil: Central areas in São Paulo as problems and potentialities.’
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Book launch - Producing Mayaland 

Join Claudia Fonseca Alfaro to discuss her new book, Producing Mayaland: Colonial Legacies, Urbanization, and the Unfolding of Global Capitalism from the Antipode Book Series, Wiley.

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Urban Life at the Extensions

UI’s Senior Professorial Fellow AbdouMaliq Simone is taking up the third iteration of the Banister Fletcher Global Fellowship.

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Decolonial Cities Beyond Justice

UI Associate Dr Tanzil Shafique has organised the Decolonial Cities Collective’s first Dialogue event, a virtual conversation between Heather Dorries (University of Toronto) and Monika Streule (LSE)
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The Urban Institute's Sheffield School delivers a musical piece in five movements

UI's Professor Maliq Simone and colleagues have recently published a collection of essays that arose from a series of curated online discussions initiated by the UI during lockdown with those working in urban labs across the global South.