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ReWET

Sharing Lessons from Dhaka’s Wetlands – ReWET ReVIEW 2024–25

Urban Institute Associate Tanzil Shafique is excited to share the first edition of the ReWET ReVIEW — a reflection on a year of collective learning from learning and action from the The ReWET Consortium.

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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 ‘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 ΢Ȧ, Karachi Urban Lab/IBA Karachi, and Lund University. Short abstracts (200-250 words) need to be submited by 23 May 2025.
RURBANISE launch

RURBANISE project officially launched!

On Friday 21st June 2024 the RURBANISE - Building resilience in the context of rapid urbanization: a view from informal settlements in the Philippines project was officially launched at a hybrid event.
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Simon Marvin and colleagues have published new journal article on AI

Congratulations to Simon et al on their new open access journal article in the journal of Urban Geography entitled "Why does urban Artificial Intelligence (AI) matter for urban studies? Developing research directions in urban AI research".
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Publication chosen by the Editor of Urban Studies journal as a featured article.

Congratulations to Simon Marvin and colleagues on having their article "The Urbanisation of Controlled Environment Agriculture: Why does it matter for urban studies?" chosen by as one of this quarter's Editors' Featured Articles in Urban Studies.

CLASS annual report

Community-led urban transformation: Community Savers in 2023

Community Savers and CLASS are a cross-class alliance between an informal women led poverty action network and a tailored professional support agency which the UI and the Dep. of Urban Studies and Planning has supported and partnered with since 2017.

East Africa

Urban Studies' Book Review Symposium: "Politics and the Urban Frontier" by Tom Goodfellow

Heralded as a 'tour de force', Tom Goodfellow's book, Politics and the Urban Frontier: Transformation and Divergence in Late Urbanizing East Africa, is the subject of a book review symposium in Urban Studies.