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Urban Radar Podcast – New episodes available

SHEFFIELD & MANCHESTER — 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 ±¬ÁÏTV.

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Sensorial Methodologies, Extended Urbanization

This workshop, incorporating film screening, book launch and panel discussion, brings together urban researchers exploring the geographies of extended and planetary urbanization through visual based methodologies.

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Illicit finance and the dark city economy

Rowland Atkinson has been writing about the role of illicit finance in harming everyday communities and people in what he calls the dark city economy.
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New episode of the Urban Radar podcast available

In this episode - Seeing the City - Tom Goodfellow and Beth Perry are joined by visiting researchers to the Universities of Sheffield and Manchester, Junia Mortimer and Felipe Magalhães.
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Call for Papers for The RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2026

The Urban Institute Team have a series of CfPs for the Conference later this year on a range of research themes – spatial inequalities, mapping and exploring how just transitions unfold within and beyond China and the geographies of inequalities.

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New open access Interventions Essay published

Simon Marvin, Colin Mcfarlane and Jonathan Rutherford have published a new article 'Infrastructural Extensions: Rethinking Infrastructure in Urban Studies in the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 10 Issue 1.