Urban Institute
@theurbaninstitute.bsky.social
University of Sheffield | A research centre investigating urban life + urbanisation.
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/urban-institute
Part of #SheffieldUrbanism
(Photo: Andre Be/@unsplash)
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/urban-institute
Part of #SheffieldUrbanism
(Photo: Andre Be/@unsplash)
Latest Urban Radar podcast is out
Feature 10: CHINA, THE GLOBAL INFRASTRUCTURE RACE AND ITS URBAN IMPACTS - A panel with Jon Silver, Zhengli Huang and Linda Westman
www.buzzsprout.com/2451716/epis...
Feature 10: CHINA, THE GLOBAL INFRASTRUCTURE RACE AND ITS URBAN IMPACTS - A panel with Jon Silver, Zhengli Huang and Linda Westman
www.buzzsprout.com/2451716/epis...
November 13, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Latest Urban Radar podcast is out
Feature 10: CHINA, THE GLOBAL INFRASTRUCTURE RACE AND ITS URBAN IMPACTS - A panel with Jon Silver, Zhengli Huang and Linda Westman
www.buzzsprout.com/2451716/epis...
Feature 10: CHINA, THE GLOBAL INFRASTRUCTURE RACE AND ITS URBAN IMPACTS - A panel with Jon Silver, Zhengli Huang and Linda Westman
www.buzzsprout.com/2451716/epis...
And coming tomorrow online as our birthday celebrations continue...
Keynote Lecture 2: Beyond Splintering Urbanism
Professor Simon Marvin
Tuesday 21 October 2025 - 10:30am to 12:15pm
sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...
Keynote Lecture 2: Beyond Splintering Urbanism
Professor Simon Marvin
Tuesday 21 October 2025 - 10:30am to 12:15pm
sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...
October 20, 2025 at 8:53 AM
And coming tomorrow online as our birthday celebrations continue...
Keynote Lecture 2: Beyond Splintering Urbanism
Professor Simon Marvin
Tuesday 21 October 2025 - 10:30am to 12:15pm
sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...
Keynote Lecture 2: Beyond Splintering Urbanism
Professor Simon Marvin
Tuesday 21 October 2025 - 10:30am to 12:15pm
sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...
Join us online to celebrate our 10th Birthday with Professor AbdouMaliq Simone
"That which is not decided: the edges of black urbanities"
Monday 20 October 2025 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm (UK time)
sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...
"That which is not decided: the edges of black urbanities"
Monday 20 October 2025 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm (UK time)
sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...
October 16, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Join us online to celebrate our 10th Birthday with Professor AbdouMaliq Simone
"That which is not decided: the edges of black urbanities"
Monday 20 October 2025 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm (UK time)
sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...
"That which is not decided: the edges of black urbanities"
Monday 20 October 2025 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm (UK time)
sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...
Online Book Launch: The Gated City: Planning Practice and the Challenges of Urban Fragmentation in Mexico, from Emma Regina Morales
🕰️ Wednesday 24th September, 5-6pm BST
sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...
#UrbanRiches
🕰️ Wednesday 24th September, 5-6pm BST
sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...
#UrbanRiches
September 11, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Online Book Launch: The Gated City: Planning Practice and the Challenges of Urban Fragmentation in Mexico, from Emma Regina Morales
🕰️ Wednesday 24th September, 5-6pm BST
sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...
#UrbanRiches
🕰️ Wednesday 24th September, 5-6pm BST
sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...
#UrbanRiches
Fugitive Planning and Black Studies: Critical Experiments
October 29 and 30, 2025
"Let us create spaces of knowledge, experimentation and listening where we can study, live and imagine in common"
Further information on the call, eligibility and how to apply here: lnkd.in/e7VNdbiX
October 29 and 30, 2025
"Let us create spaces of knowledge, experimentation and listening where we can study, live and imagine in common"
Further information on the call, eligibility and how to apply here: lnkd.in/e7VNdbiX
September 8, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Fugitive Planning and Black Studies: Critical Experiments
October 29 and 30, 2025
"Let us create spaces of knowledge, experimentation and listening where we can study, live and imagine in common"
Further information on the call, eligibility and how to apply here: lnkd.in/e7VNdbiX
October 29 and 30, 2025
"Let us create spaces of knowledge, experimentation and listening where we can study, live and imagine in common"
Further information on the call, eligibility and how to apply here: lnkd.in/e7VNdbiX
'Global Corridor' offers a regular round up of some of the most interesting news, stories, data, opinion + academic work on global infrastructure.
Subscribe to Jon Silver's new Substack newsletter here
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Subscribe to Jon Silver's new Substack newsletter here
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globalcorridor.substack.com
September 5, 2025 at 7:24 AM
'Global Corridor' offers a regular round up of some of the most interesting news, stories, data, opinion + academic work on global infrastructure.
Subscribe to Jon Silver's new Substack newsletter here
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globalcorridor.substack.com
Subscribe to Jon Silver's new Substack newsletter here
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globalcorridor.substack.com
URBAN POLITICS OF TRUTH AND WEALTH
- New Urban Radar podcast available now... 🙊 💰
In this month's episode Tom and Beth are joined by Dr Katie Pruszynski and Rowland Atkinson to examine the impacts of political and wealth elites on urban life.
open.spotify.com/episode/2GhJ...
- New Urban Radar podcast available now... 🙊 💰
In this month's episode Tom and Beth are joined by Dr Katie Pruszynski and Rowland Atkinson to examine the impacts of political and wealth elites on urban life.
open.spotify.com/episode/2GhJ...
July 29, 2025 at 7:14 AM
URBAN POLITICS OF TRUTH AND WEALTH
- New Urban Radar podcast available now... 🙊 💰
In this month's episode Tom and Beth are joined by Dr Katie Pruszynski and Rowland Atkinson to examine the impacts of political and wealth elites on urban life.
open.spotify.com/episode/2GhJ...
- New Urban Radar podcast available now... 🙊 💰
In this month's episode Tom and Beth are joined by Dr Katie Pruszynski and Rowland Atkinson to examine the impacts of political and wealth elites on urban life.
open.spotify.com/episode/2GhJ...
🌍 The Sheffield Urbanism Showcase
🗓️ Tuesday, 1st July
🕰️ 9:00am to 4:30pm
A showcase to celebrate and profile just some of the incredible urban research we undertake across disciplines in the Faculty of Social Sciences here at Sheffield.
www.sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...
🗓️ Tuesday, 1st July
🕰️ 9:00am to 4:30pm
A showcase to celebrate and profile just some of the incredible urban research we undertake across disciplines in the Faculty of Social Sciences here at Sheffield.
www.sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...
June 27, 2025 at 10:41 AM
🌍 The Sheffield Urbanism Showcase
🗓️ Tuesday, 1st July
🕰️ 9:00am to 4:30pm
A showcase to celebrate and profile just some of the incredible urban research we undertake across disciplines in the Faculty of Social Sciences here at Sheffield.
www.sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...
🗓️ Tuesday, 1st July
🕰️ 9:00am to 4:30pm
A showcase to celebrate and profile just some of the incredible urban research we undertake across disciplines in the Faculty of Social Sciences here at Sheffield.
www.sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...
Listen now to #Urbanradar's first stand-alone feature!
📢 Powering the North: A conversation with Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram, asking is Britain wired for inequality between regions?
lnkd.in/eCuCcXhZ
📢 Powering the North: A conversation with Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram, asking is Britain wired for inequality between regions?
lnkd.in/eCuCcXhZ
June 18, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Listen now to #Urbanradar's first stand-alone feature!
📢 Powering the North: A conversation with Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram, asking is Britain wired for inequality between regions?
lnkd.in/eCuCcXhZ
📢 Powering the North: A conversation with Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram, asking is Britain wired for inequality between regions?
lnkd.in/eCuCcXhZ
New Paper
BROKEN INFRASTRUCTURES AND URBAN SPACIOUSNESS (COMPASSION)
Abdoumaliq Simone
In IJURR
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
BROKEN INFRASTRUCTURES AND URBAN SPACIOUSNESS (COMPASSION)
Abdoumaliq Simone
In IJURR
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
June 18, 2025 at 7:32 AM
New Paper
BROKEN INFRASTRUCTURES AND URBAN SPACIOUSNESS (COMPASSION)
Abdoumaliq Simone
In IJURR
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
BROKEN INFRASTRUCTURES AND URBAN SPACIOUSNESS (COMPASSION)
Abdoumaliq Simone
In IJURR
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
New Paper
Climate‐controlled conservation: Remaking ‘the botanical metropolis of the world’
Simon Marvin and Jonathan Rutherford
in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Climate‐controlled conservation: Remaking ‘the botanical metropolis of the world’
Simon Marvin and Jonathan Rutherford
in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
June 17, 2025 at 7:34 AM
New Paper
Climate‐controlled conservation: Remaking ‘the botanical metropolis of the world’
Simon Marvin and Jonathan Rutherford
in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Climate‐controlled conservation: Remaking ‘the botanical metropolis of the world’
Simon Marvin and Jonathan Rutherford
in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
New Paper
"A dialogue on global infrastructure-led urbanization: Concepts and reorientations"
in Dialogues in Human Geography
Simone Vegliò, Jonathan Silver, Andrea Pollio, Francesca Governa, and Elia Apostolopoulou
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
"A dialogue on global infrastructure-led urbanization: Concepts and reorientations"
in Dialogues in Human Geography
Simone Vegliò, Jonathan Silver, Andrea Pollio, Francesca Governa, and Elia Apostolopoulou
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
June 13, 2025 at 6:29 AM
New Paper
"A dialogue on global infrastructure-led urbanization: Concepts and reorientations"
in Dialogues in Human Geography
Simone Vegliò, Jonathan Silver, Andrea Pollio, Francesca Governa, and Elia Apostolopoulou
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
"A dialogue on global infrastructure-led urbanization: Concepts and reorientations"
in Dialogues in Human Geography
Simone Vegliò, Jonathan Silver, Andrea Pollio, Francesca Governa, and Elia Apostolopoulou
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
EVENT: Global CEO peer groups and the capitalist class in Johannesburg, London and Mumbai
Katie Higgins
18th June
(in person and online as part of our Urban Riches theme
Info Here:
www.sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...
Katie Higgins
18th June
(in person and online as part of our Urban Riches theme
Info Here:
www.sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...
June 12, 2025 at 12:30 PM
EVENT: Global CEO peer groups and the capitalist class in Johannesburg, London and Mumbai
Katie Higgins
18th June
(in person and online as part of our Urban Riches theme
Info Here:
www.sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...
Katie Higgins
18th June
(in person and online as part of our Urban Riches theme
Info Here:
www.sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...
Urban Radar 🎙️ | 🌟 Episode 4 | Bats 🦇 , Buildings 🏢 and Big Ideas 💡
Join the discussion with Tom Goodfellow and Beth Perry for the Sheffield Urbanism podcast
Here's the link to tune in to the full episode : lnkd.in/enVHKU6g
Join the discussion with Tom Goodfellow and Beth Perry for the Sheffield Urbanism podcast
Here's the link to tune in to the full episode : lnkd.in/enVHKU6g
May 13, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Urban Radar 🎙️ | 🌟 Episode 4 | Bats 🦇 , Buildings 🏢 and Big Ideas 💡
Join the discussion with Tom Goodfellow and Beth Perry for the Sheffield Urbanism podcast
Here's the link to tune in to the full episode : lnkd.in/enVHKU6g
Join the discussion with Tom Goodfellow and Beth Perry for the Sheffield Urbanism podcast
Here's the link to tune in to the full episode : lnkd.in/enVHKU6g
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
www.sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...
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
www.sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...
May 12, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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
www.sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...
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
www.sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...
Delighted to announce that #UrbanRadar Episode 3 is now out! Jam packed with urban analysis of current and recent events.
This month’s special feature focuses on the rise of #authoritarianism and its urban consequences
Listen here >> lnkd.in/ehaewPvd
This month’s special feature focuses on the rise of #authoritarianism and its urban consequences
Listen here >> lnkd.in/ehaewPvd
March 31, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Delighted to announce that #UrbanRadar Episode 3 is now out! Jam packed with urban analysis of current and recent events.
This month’s special feature focuses on the rise of #authoritarianism and its urban consequences
Listen here >> lnkd.in/ehaewPvd
This month’s special feature focuses on the rise of #authoritarianism and its urban consequences
Listen here >> lnkd.in/ehaewPvd
Episode 2 of #UrbanRadar with Beth and Tom is now live, on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts: lnkd.in/g-cxJ-B4
As the UK government pins hopes on enabling greater private sector investment to boost economic growth, can the 'Manchester model' deliver the expected outcomes?
As the UK government pins hopes on enabling greater private sector investment to boost economic growth, can the 'Manchester model' deliver the expected outcomes?
March 6, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Episode 2 of #UrbanRadar with Beth and Tom is now live, on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts: lnkd.in/g-cxJ-B4
As the UK government pins hopes on enabling greater private sector investment to boost economic growth, can the 'Manchester model' deliver the expected outcomes?
As the UK government pins hopes on enabling greater private sector investment to boost economic growth, can the 'Manchester model' deliver the expected outcomes?
Happening today, Professor AbdouMaliq Simone's workshop on 'Ecologies of Black Living' CIFAR at the British Academy, London
March 5, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Happening today, Professor AbdouMaliq Simone's workshop on 'Ecologies of Black Living' CIFAR at the British Academy, London
An exciting book launch this week in Sheffield from our visiting fellow Sam Burgum
'Squatting London - the Politics of Property' published by @PlutoPress
Online and in person on Thursday, 12.30-2pm
More details here:
www.sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...
'Squatting London - the Politics of Property' published by @PlutoPress
Online and in person on Thursday, 12.30-2pm
More details here:
www.sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...
March 4, 2025 at 10:05 AM
An exciting book launch this week in Sheffield from our visiting fellow Sam Burgum
'Squatting London - the Politics of Property' published by @PlutoPress
Online and in person on Thursday, 12.30-2pm
More details here:
www.sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...
'Squatting London - the Politics of Property' published by @PlutoPress
Online and in person on Thursday, 12.30-2pm
More details here:
www.sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...
We are delighted to host the book launch (hybrid) for Tanzil Shafique's 'City of Desire: An Urban Biography of the Largest Slum in Bangladesh'
Wed 12 March
More details here: www.sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...
Wed 12 March
More details here: www.sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...
March 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM
We are delighted to host the book launch (hybrid) for Tanzil Shafique's 'City of Desire: An Urban Biography of the Largest Slum in Bangladesh'
Wed 12 March
More details here: www.sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...
Wed 12 March
More details here: www.sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...
Episode 1 of #UrbanRadar is now live on Spotify, Apple Podcasts & many other platforms!
In Episode 1, Tom & Beth bring their urban lens to a range of current issues before welcoming @vanesilla.bsky.social
& David Dodman for a discussion of cities & climate change.
open.spotify.com/episode/2Qas...
In Episode 1, Tom & Beth bring their urban lens to a range of current issues before welcoming @vanesilla.bsky.social
& David Dodman for a discussion of cities & climate change.
open.spotify.com/episode/2Qas...
February 24, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Episode 1 of #UrbanRadar is now live on Spotify, Apple Podcasts & many other platforms!
In Episode 1, Tom & Beth bring their urban lens to a range of current issues before welcoming @vanesilla.bsky.social
& David Dodman for a discussion of cities & climate change.
open.spotify.com/episode/2Qas...
In Episode 1, Tom & Beth bring their urban lens to a range of current issues before welcoming @vanesilla.bsky.social
& David Dodman for a discussion of cities & climate change.
open.spotify.com/episode/2Qas...
A thought-provoking presentation + discussion on Isaac Rose’s “The Rentier City: Manchester + the Making of the Neoliberal Metropolis” as part of our Winter Programme organised by the Urban Institute's 'Urban Riches' theme + the Sheffield Tenants Union
Read Isaac's book here : lnkd.in/dsMB6TQh
Read Isaac's book here : lnkd.in/dsMB6TQh
February 10, 2025 at 12:07 PM
A thought-provoking presentation + discussion on Isaac Rose’s “The Rentier City: Manchester + the Making of the Neoliberal Metropolis” as part of our Winter Programme organised by the Urban Institute's 'Urban Riches' theme + the Sheffield Tenants Union
Read Isaac's book here : lnkd.in/dsMB6TQh
Read Isaac's book here : lnkd.in/dsMB6TQh
New report...
'Centripetal Cities: A critique of supply-side urban development'
Explores economic growth + inequality, housing costs/displacement, public value capture/investment dynamics, gentrification and extraction and policy gaps from our UI team + CRAFIC
www.sheffield.ac.uk/crafic/news/...
'Centripetal Cities: A critique of supply-side urban development'
Explores economic growth + inequality, housing costs/displacement, public value capture/investment dynamics, gentrification and extraction and policy gaps from our UI team + CRAFIC
www.sheffield.ac.uk/crafic/news/...
February 3, 2025 at 9:06 AM
New report...
'Centripetal Cities: A critique of supply-side urban development'
Explores economic growth + inequality, housing costs/displacement, public value capture/investment dynamics, gentrification and extraction and policy gaps from our UI team + CRAFIC
www.sheffield.ac.uk/crafic/news/...
'Centripetal Cities: A critique of supply-side urban development'
Explores economic growth + inequality, housing costs/displacement, public value capture/investment dynamics, gentrification and extraction and policy gaps from our UI team + CRAFIC
www.sheffield.ac.uk/crafic/news/...
Don't forget to sign up to our SheffieldUrbanism week coming up with a range of exciting events....
January 24, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Don't forget to sign up to our SheffieldUrbanism week coming up with a range of exciting events....
New #OpenAccess Urban Studies debates paper by our Corridor project team, Fatima, Jon, Yannis and Prince
"The unending corridor: Critical approaches to the politics, logics, and socio-technics of urban corridorisation"
Read here ow.ly/SVWk50UzwQK
"The unending corridor: Critical approaches to the politics, logics, and socio-technics of urban corridorisation"
Read here ow.ly/SVWk50UzwQK
January 8, 2025 at 9:19 AM
New #OpenAccess Urban Studies debates paper by our Corridor project team, Fatima, Jon, Yannis and Prince
"The unending corridor: Critical approaches to the politics, logics, and socio-technics of urban corridorisation"
Read here ow.ly/SVWk50UzwQK
"The unending corridor: Critical approaches to the politics, logics, and socio-technics of urban corridorisation"
Read here ow.ly/SVWk50UzwQK