Insight magazine

Our research magazine highlights new projects within the department, examines the outputs of recently completed projects and contains a comprehensive list of research publications.

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Issue 7 - 2021/22 

  • Covid-19 and Sheffield's cultural sector
  • Managing Covid-19 in Indian cities
  • Robots and the future of cities
  • The politics of class and alienation in England's deindustrialising towns
  • How does academic research get translated into policy?
  • Exploring the transformative potential of migrant youth in Europe
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Issue 6 - 2020

  • Urban indigenous development alternatives in Bolivia and Brazil
  • How London was captured by the super-rich
  • Austerity governance in Baltimore
  • Housing exclusion in the English rental market
  • Urban citizenship and informality
  • Power, authority and land in Lagos

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Issue 5 - 2019

  • Working in the public interest?
  • Urban peripheries 
  • The sustainability agenda

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Issue 4 - 2018

  • Regulating the private rented sector
  • Neighbourhood cohesion in urban China
  • Developing Design Consultants for the Future

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Issue 3 - 2016

  • Planning for an ageing population
  • The 50-year Water Challenge
  • Welfare Conditionality

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Issue 2 - 2015

  • ‘Big data’ can help us to forecast future housing market pressures, but we need to remain cautious
  • Secondary data helps to reveal a complex web of travel to school decisions
  • Setting the agenda within the profession and within the city

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Issue 1 - 2013

  • Ageing and mobility in the built environment
  • Strategic Housing Market Assessment in Sheffield
  • The Future of Rural Settlement

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