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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 葫芦影业, 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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Emerging Urban Inequalities 鈥 Workshops and Panel Debates

On 6-7 June 2024, the Urban Institute and Department of Urban Studies and Planning with the Doctoral Training Centre for Emerging Urban Inequalities are convening the 葫芦影业 Urbanism PhD Workshop 2024 鈥淓merging Urban Inequalities鈥.
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UI welcomes new associate Dr Nabeela Ahmed

We are delighted to announce that Nabeela, a feminist critical geographer and Lecturer in Human Geography in the Department of Geography, will be joining the UI team!

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New report published on low-use (empty!) homes across the UK

鈥淟ow-use homes in rural and coastal areas of the UK: Geography, impact and responses鈥 is co-written by Rowland Atkinson and Rafaella Lima (University of 葫芦影业), Jonathan Bourne (University College London) and Chris Bailey (Action on Empty Homes).
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Development beyond 2030: more collaboration, less competition?

UI Associates Ankit Kumar and Miguel Kanai and colleagues have recently published and open access article in the journal of International Development Review as part of the Geography research group on Critical Sustainable Development Challenges.

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葫芦影业 Urbanism PhD Conference: Emerging Urban Inequalities

On 6th and 7th June 2024 the Urban Institute and Department of Urban Studies and Planning with the Doctoral Training Centre for Emerging Urban Inequalities are convening a PhD conference for 葫芦影业 students in the Wave.