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UI Book talk: Artery: Racial Ecologies on Colombia’s Magdalena River

Book Talk - Artery: Racial Ecologies on Colombia’s Magdalena River

Austin Zeiderman, Professor of Geography in the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics will discuss his new book on Monday 23 March 2026 3p-4pm in Teaching Room 2 in the Geography and Planning Building.

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New episode Urban Radar: Urban Robotics by Stealth

In this episode Tom and Beth are joined by Professor Aidan While from the University of Sheffield to explore how robotic urban infrastructures are already reshaping everyday lives, homes and mobilities.
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Barriers to Inclusivity in the Solar Value Chain – Online Seminar

This online seminar will host colleagues from the Transforming Energy Access TEA)@SUNRISE Network, who will share insights from their forthcoming report - Barriers to Inclusivity in the Solar Value Chain: Africa, Asia, and the Indo-Pacific Region.

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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.

The Relational Edge

The Relational Edge: Unlocking Lasting Community Transformation

How can place-based funding create genuine, lasting change that extends far beyond the funding cycle?