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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 ΢ÃÜȦ, 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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Is neurotechnology the infrastructure of the future

UI Professor Simon Marvin and his colleague Allan McCay, University of Sydney, have published a new article in The Conversation entitled "Elon Musk’s brain implant company offers an intriguing glimpse of an internet connecting human minds".

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Living & working in a changing climate: women waste pickers' experience

The Urban Institute and the Institute for Global Sustainable Development at ΢ÃÜȦ are excited to announce they are co-hosting a hybrid workshop and art exhibition in The Wave on Wednesday 17th April 1500-1730.

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The epistemic tangles of urban inhabitation

Applications now welcome to participate in a workshop on 23-24 May 2024 ‘The epistemic tangles of urban inhabitation’ organised jointly by the Urban Institute (University of ΢ÃÜȦ) and Beyond Inhabitation Lab (Polytechnic University of Turin).
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Call for Papers: Global China: International Perspectives on the Belt and Road Initiative

Dr Linda Westman and colleagues are sponsoring a special issue seeks to update geographical scholarship on China’s growing global influence through the BRI by inviting geographical research contributions from an international perspective.
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Book launch: For a Liberatory Politics of Home, Michele Lancione, available on YouTube

The Urban Institute hosted a hybrid event to launch Professor Michele Lancione's new book 'For a Liberatory Politics of Home' published by Duke University Press. The recording is now available on the UI YouTube Channel.