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New article on infrastructure as territorial stigma

Urban Institute Associate Dr Nebeela Ahmed has published a new open access article entitled "Infrastructure as territorial stigma: labour migrant exclusions in the Indian city" in the International Journal or Urban and Regional Research.

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Simon Marvin gives keynote at the Technocratic Governance Conference, Singapore

Simon Marvin delivered a keynote for a session on 鈥楽peculative Futures鈥 at the Technocratic Governance and the Politics of Smart City Knowledge Transfer Conference on 22-23 April 2025 hosted by the Singapore Management University Urban Institute.

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Untranslatable? The Linguistic Knowledge Politics of Southern Urban Theory

This online workshop will take place on 7 October 2025 between 0900-1700 and is co-organised by the University of 91直播, Karachi Urban Lab/IBA Karachi, and Lund University. Short abstracts (200-250 words) need to be submited by 23 May 2025.
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Professor Simon Marvin delivers keynote in Bangalore

Simon was invited to give a keynote on 鈥淯rban AI: The 鈥渢echnisation of everything?鈥 at the The AI and the City conference on 4th and 5th January 2025.

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Citizen participation in planning: from the neighbourhood to the city

On 24 November 2021 at 2pm (GMT) the Urban Institute's Professor of Climate Urbanism, Vanesa Cast谩n Broto, will participate in an expert panel at on online event organised by the International Institute for Environment and Development.
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Thoughts on the COP26 鈥 interview for BBC Breakfast Radio

As discussions continued for the second week at COP26 about how best to tackle climate change and save our planet, conference attendee Dr Linda Westman, was interviewed on 12th November 2021 by Toby Foster for BBC Radio on her thoughts on COP26.
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Professor Cast谩n Broto鈥檚 briefing on Just Climate Adaptation supports Cities Day

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Paper published in a new special issue on urban impacts of climate change
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New Associate Researcher Tanzil Shafique joins the UI team

The Urban Institute is delighted to welcome Tanzil Shafique as a new Associate Researcher.