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Simon Marvin gives keynote at the Technocratic Governance Conference, Singapore

Simon Marvin delivered a keynote for a session on ‘Speculative Futures’ 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 Sheffield, 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 “Urban AI: The “technisation of everything?” at the The AI and the City conference on 4th and 5th January 2025.

Artificial Intelligence and the City
Artificial Intelligence and the City

Professor Simon Marvin attends the AAG 2025 in Detroit

Simon attended The American Association of Geographers that brought together members of the global geographic community to learn from Detroit and its rich history of activism and creativity, radical cartography; and ecologies of land and water.

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UI welcomes new research associate Dr Zhengli Huang

The UI is delighted to introduce their newest team member Dr Zhengli Huang. Zhengi will be working with Dr Jon Silver and other members of the UI team on the European Research Council project GlobalCORRIDOR.

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Book Launch: Living the urban periphery

This event is cohosted by Institute for Global Sustainable Development and the Urban Institute to celebrate the new open access book "Living the urban periphery: Infrastructure, everyday life and economic change in African city-regions.

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Urban Transitions and Popular Economies: How to Inhabit Differently?

During the week of the 4-9 November, AbdouMaliq Simone will be delivering the 'El Alto Sessions' in Bolivia as an initiative of the Urban Institute's oldest Sheffield School "Urban Popular Economy Collective", in partnership CLACSO and CIDES-IDIS/UMS
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Cyclone Kristine accentuates the necessity of the RURBANISE project

Our thoughts are with our RURBANISE partners as tropical cyclone Kristine causes severe flooding and damage across the Philippines resulting in death, injuries and leaving thousands of people displaced following landslides and torrential rainfall.
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Rowland Atkinsons’s new blogs, articles and panel session at RC21

Congratulations to UI Associate Rowland Atkinson who has written a couple of blogs and articles on the urban elite and super rich and is also organising a conference session on elite cities at RC21 Regional and Urban Development in July 2025.