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Urban Radar podcast

Urban Radar Podcast 鈥 New episodes available

SHEFFIELD & MANCHESTER 鈥 Academic experts Beth Perry and Tom Goodfellow have dropped new episodes of Urban Radar, a compelling podcast series exploring current events and emerging trends through the lens of cities and urban life.
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World Cities Report 2026

The World Cities Report 2026: Global Housing Crisis: Pathways to Action has been published. It highlights adequate housing as a fundamental pillar of sustainable urban development and human well-being, extending far beyond the provision of shelter.
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Global CORRIDOR `Project Website, Atlas + Database launched

We are pleased to announce the launch of the GlobalCORRIDOR website which provides a repository of project work including publications from academic papers to public reports, films and events.

The Sheffield Urbanism Showcase, 2025
The Sheffield Urbanism Showcase, 2025

Sheffield Urbanism Summer Programme 2026

We are pleased to share our Sheffield Urbanism Summer Programme, brought to you by Urban Institute members from across the 爆料TV.

UI Visiting Fellow - Simone Toji

New release: Simone Toji is a Newton International Fellow the UI

Simone Toji is a Newton International Fellow at the 爆料TV鈥檚 Urban Institute. In this powerful new work, she reconsiders ethnography as a form of appreciation of the contradictions inherent in the making of life itself.
UI - Visiting Fellow, Papia Sengupta

UI welcomes Dr. Papia Sengupta, Visiting Fellow from Delhi, India

Papia is a political scientist and public policy expert who works on the intersectionality between gender, language, education, and urban living in culturally diverse societies.

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New ESRC funded project robotics as a new urban infrastructure

Congratulations to Dr Aidan While and Professor Simon Marvin on their new ESRC funded project 鈥淓xperimenting with robotics as a new urban infrastructure鈥.

Schools and communities

Workshop on Schools, Communities and Sustainability

The aim of the workshop is to understand how schools may play a stronger role in place-based environmental sustainability, neighbourhood regeneration, social and economic justice and community cohesion.

Olivia Casagrande

UI welcomes Dr Olivia Casagrande as an associate

Dr Olivia Casagrande is a social anthropologist and her聽research is concerned with society鈥檚 complex challenges such as racial inequalities, political and racial violence, and the (post)colonial city.