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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 2d
🏙️ Phoenix-Nomenon of Kharkiv
Join us to discuss deurbanisation, survival & prospects of renewal.

Roundtable One of the #USFSeminarSeries
📅 22 Oct 2025, 10:00 (GMT+1)
📍 Hybrid | Newcastle Univ + Online
🔗 Read more and register: https://ow.ly/1yfG50X6NeP
Flyer with USF logo for the event "Roundtable One: PHOENIX-NOMENON OF KHARKIV" witht the inscription: "This series of roundtables aims is to study the process of deurbanisation of Kharkiv (second biggest city in the north-east of Ukraine, 1,5 million population) in order to understand the current processes and prospects of revival (Phoenix-nomenon) of the multidimensional significance of the city of Kharkiv, namely, what can be the core that can restore the former scientific, academic, cultural, industrial significance of the city 22 October 2025, 10:00 (GMT+1) Henry Daysh Building, Room 5.08 School of Architecture, Newcastle University Hybrid" on a picture of the Kharkiv School of Architecture Flyer with USF logo for the event "Roundtable One: PHOENIX-NOMENON OF KHARKIV" witht the inscription: "This series of roundtables aims is to study the process of deurbanisation of Kharkiv (second biggest city in the north-east of Ukraine, 1,5 million population) in order to understand the current processes and prospects of revival (Phoenix-nomenon) of the multidimensional significance of the city of Kharkiv, namely, what can be the core that can restore the former scientific, academic, cultural, industrial significance of the city 22 October 2025, 10:00 (GMT+1) Henry Daysh Building, Room 5.08 School of Architecture, Newcastle University Hybrid" on a picture of the Kharkiv School of Architecture
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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 9d
🏙️ How can we use AI responsibly in urban governance?

In this guest blog, Dr Nuno Pinto introduces a new #USFSeminarSeries on AI and urban governance.

📅 Launch webinar: 24 Oct, 14:00 BST
👉 Read more and register: ow.ly/mmpO50X2S8t

#UrbanAI #UrbanStudies #AI
Flyer with USF logo for the blog "Generative AI in urban governance. Addressing the challenges". On a Photo: Nuno Pinto using ChatGPT5. And the quote: “The rapid and accelerating advent of (i) big-data and machine learning and, more recently, (ii) generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has opened to those urban stakeholders many possibilities such as affordability, scope, speed of processes and, at the same time, significant challenges” Flyer with USF logo for the blog "Generative AI in urban governance. Addressing the challenges". On a Photo: Nuno Pinto using ChatGPT5. And the quote: “The rapid and accelerating advent of (i) big-data and machine learning and, more recently, (ii) generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has opened to those urban stakeholders many possibilities such as affordability, scope, speed of processes and, at the same time, significant challenges”
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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 12d
🌍 Exciting opportunity! Register for "Cities at War" – Online Lecture Series

🔸 By scholars from war-torn cities

📅 Fully online | Free & open to all
👉 ow.ly/6eiM50X2pZz

Organised by #USF, BeirutUrbanLab, DKVD, Rojava Univ, Off Univ, Humboldt Uni Berlin

#CitiesAtWar #UrbanStudies #ConflictCities
Flyer with USF logo for the Lecture Series "Cities at War" With the inscription: 15th October 2025 to 11th February 2026, Online Lecture Series, 16:00 (GMT+2) “Cities at War” is a fully online and publicly accessible 16-week lecture series jointly organised by 16 scholars from war-torn cities on how conflicts have produced and re-produced their cities." Flyer with USF logo for the Lecture Series "Cities at War" With the inscription: 15th October 2025 to 11th February 2026, Online Lecture Series, 16:00 (GMT+2) “Cities at War” is a fully online and publicly accessible 16-week lecture series jointly organised by 16 scholars from war-torn cities on how conflicts have produced and re-produced their cities."
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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 14d
🔔 Upcoming online talk (Cities Agenda – Sciences Po)

📅 2 Oct 2025 | 17:00–18:30 (GMT+2)
🎙️ Join #USFInternationalFellow Ana Beraldo – Managing ordinary life: (Im)predictability, Violence & Solidarity in Latin American Urban Margins
💬 Discussant: Patrick Le Galès
👉 Register: ow.ly/F5vo50X10H9
Flyer with USF logo for the Webinar on 2 October 2025 – 5-6:30 pm (online) Ana Beraldo de Carvalho, Urban Studies Foundation International Fellow, Sciences Po Managing ordinary life: (Im)predictability, Violence and Solidarity in Latin American Urban Margins. Discussant: Patrick Le Galès, CNRS Research Professor, CEE, Sciences Po Flyer with USF logo for the Webinar on 2 October 2025 – 5-6:30 pm (online) Ana Beraldo de Carvalho, Urban Studies Foundation International Fellow, Sciences Po Managing ordinary life: (Im)predictability, Violence and Solidarity in Latin American Urban Margins. Discussant: Patrick Le Galès, CNRS Research Professor, CEE, Sciences Po
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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 16d
Congratulations 🥳 to @urbanstudiesfoundation.org Postdoctoral Research Fellow Dr Matina Kapsali for receiving Research Staff of the Year award! 👏 👏 👏 @officialuom.bsky.social @matinakapsali.bsky.social
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Matina Kapsali @matinakapsali.bsky.social · 16d
Last week was special. Honored to be awarded Research Staff of the Year for the Faculty of Humanities @officialuom.bsky.social

Grateful that efforts get recognized—and even more grateful for the incredible people beside me.
Special thanks to Sarah @smhall.bsky.social for always being there. 🌸🙏✨
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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 19d
🚌 New on the USF Blog
In “Bustling (Im)Mobility: Socio-spatial Negotiations in Delhi's Bus Terminals”, #USFInternationalFellow Dr Arundhathi examines how Delhi’s bus users navigate unreliable infrastructures.
📍 Read the full post: ow.ly/P8ZV50WZ7xq
Flyer with USF logo for the USF blog on a picture of a bus station in Delhi, by Arundhathi, with the quote “The infrastructural development of the city starts to seem hollow, as the lack of a reliable bus service and its related infrastructure symbolise how the city itself lacks the means to support some of its most socio-economically marginalised citizens” Flyer with USF logo for the USF blog on a picture of a bus station in Delhi, by Arundhathi, with the quote “The infrastructural development of the city starts to seem hollow, as the lack of a reliable bus service and its related infrastructure symbolise how the city itself lacks the means to support some of its most socio-economically marginalised citizens”
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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 22d
📢 New publication by former USF International Fellow Harsh Mittal
“Topological spatialities of policy mobility: the varied power plays governing Indian smart urbanism in a quieter register”
Published in Space and Polity
🔗 ow.ly/kyLr50WXfBi
#UrbanStudies #PolicyMobility #SmartUrbanism #India
Flyer with USF logo for the paper "Topological spatialities of policy mobility" on Photo: nhadatvideo via Flickr. It includes the cover and the quote: "“...It brings out instances of armslength manipulation of an administration reluctant to engage with mobile experts, seduction of bureaucratic leadership through topological proximity with global-metropolitan professional networks, and inducements emanating from the smart cities event industry practices, towards prioritizing performance in the global urban-policy circuit. “ Flyer with USF logo for the paper "Topological spatialities of policy mobility" on Photo: nhadatvideo via Flickr. It includes the cover and the quote: "“...It brings out instances of armslength manipulation of an administration reluctant to engage with mobile experts, seduction of bureaucratic leadership through topological proximity with global-metropolitan professional networks, and inducements emanating from the smart cities event industry practices, towards prioritizing performance in the global urban-policy circuit. “
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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 26d
🔔New in the #USFBlog!
“Urban politics and negotiated stateness: comparative perspectives across Africa and Eastern Europe”
👉 ow.ly/2P6o50WVrW2

🌍Check the 1st event of the Series!
"Decentring Urban Politics: Thinking with & beyond Eastern Europe and Africa"
📅 15–16 Sept 2025
🔗 ow.ly/5Q8b50WVrW0
Flyer with USF logo for the EVENT "Decentring Urban Politics: Thinking with and beyond Eastern Europe and Africa " This seminar series, funded by the Urban Studies Foundation, brings together scholars working on Africa and Eastern Europe to explore how cities are shaped by state actors and political dynamics. 15 September 2025, 9:00 (GMT+3) Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia In Person Picture taken from UCL web: https://urban-politics-and-negotiated-stateness.notion.site/Urban-Politics-and-Negotiated-Stateness-Comparative-Perspectives-across-Africa-and-Eastern-Europe-263016d5228480849395c0b07d4b978f
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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 26d
🚨 Join us in Newcastle for the first symposium of the USF Seminar Series:
Co-Producing Alternative Urban Futures through Experimental Urbanism
📅 15–16 Sept 2025
📍 High Bridge Works Gallery & The Farrell Centre
🔗 Register: ow.ly/FmmS50WVpng
Image Credit: Experimental Urbanism Co-Producing Alternative Urban Futures through Experimental Urbanism This seminar series offers a meeting space for urban researchers, activists, and practitioners involved in experimental, collaborative, future-oriented projects making better cities. The focus is understanding urban practices that have emerged as alternatives to mainstream planning and urban governance processes, that provide new ways to tackle wicked urban problems. 15 September 2025, 8:30 (GMT+1) High Bridge Works Gallery and Farrell Centre, Newcastle upon Tyne In Person
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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 27d
🚀 Inauguration Workshop of the #USFSeminarSeries on "Mapping Opportunities in Post-Industrial Cities."
Read more about the events:
👉 ow.ly/RJmm50WUQ1z

Register for the first event: "How can post-industrial cities be reimagined?"
👉 ow.ly/gwbo50WUQ1y
📅 30 Sept 2025 | 🕙 10:00–11:30 (UK time)
Flyer with USF logo for the event "How can post-industrial cities be reimagined?" on a picture of an industrial place provided by the organizers Flyer with USF logo for the event "How can post-industrial cities be reimagined?" on a picture of an industrial place provided by the organizers
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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 29d
📝 New on the USF blog:

Dr Dammert-Guardia, Prof Wong, Dr Sarmiento & Dr Pineda-Zumarán discuss the upcoming events of their #SeminarSeriesAward on speculative real estate dynamics, land commodification & resistance strategies across Peru, the UK & the US.
👉 ow.ly/2BLr50WTbec
[Image description: USF flyer for the blog with USF logo and a picture by @ Adrian Aiquipa and the quote “Nowadays, intensifying capitalism and financial capital are having a profound impact on global urbanisation, turning land into a valuable commodity for wealth accumulation.”]
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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · Sep 2
📝 New on the USF blog + 📢 Call for participants
“Walls speak. Are you listening? A research agenda for urban surfaces”
Dr Sabina Andron, Dr Konstantinos Avramidis & Tom Ward introduce the #USFSeminarSeries and the Urban Surfaces Research Network (USRN).
👉 ow.ly/j8Pf50WPzwI
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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · Aug 15
📢 Call for submissions! 📢

Epistemes of non-dominant inhabitation: a call for scholars thinking, reading, and writing about urban inhabitation differently. Programme includes additional support for ECR/URS participation.

Read more and apply here: www.urbanstudiesfoundation.org/2025/08/14/e...
Epistemes of non-dominant inhabitation: a call for scholars thinking, reading, and writing about urban inhabitation differently Epistemes of non-dominant inhabitation: a call for scholars thinking, reading, and writing about urban inhabitation differently
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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · Aug 14
🚨 New Publication
“The Rentier Economy of Growth Infrastructures: Value Appropriation without Adequate Accumulation in India”
By Preeti Sampat, former #USFInternationalFellow ✨
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/anti...
📄 Published in Antipode
#UrbanStudies #Infrastructure #RentierEconomy #India #USF
[Image description: Flyer with USF logo and the cover of the article "The Rentier Economy of Growth Infrastructures: Value Appropriation without Adequate Accumulation in India" Authored by Preeti Sampat, former USF International Fellow in Antipode, on a Picture via flikr by Rodney Topor]
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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · Aug 12
📢Join us for a special event, where we explore the intersections of aesthetics, ecology, and sensory urban politics in contemporary China—through the work of the late C. P. Pow.
📅 September 12th, 16:00-17:30 (GMT+7). Online.
Information and registration:
👉 ow.ly/m7qV50WB0kc
#UrbanStudies #China
Flyer for the event “The aesthetic, ecological and sensory politics in urban China: Reading C.P. Pow together” with USF logo and the cover of the book
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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · Aug 7
🚨 In this guest post, Dr. Himmat Zoubi & Dr. Areen Hawari (Mada al-Carmel) reflect on the destruction of Gaza through the lens of urbicide.

Their #USFSeminarSeries will host hybrid events from Jan–June.

🗓️ Stay tuned for ways to engage.
🔗 Read more: ow.ly/I7Ka50WAX5G
#UrbanStudies #Gaza #Urbicide
[Image description: flyer with USF logo and the quote "What is unfolding is a systematic dismantling of space, memory, and social infrastructure, a process that we understand as urbicide, deeply entwined with genocidal intent." on a Picture via flikr by Jaime Jover]
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Matina Kapsali @matinakapsali.bsky.social · Aug 5
So happy this is out!! 👩🏽‍🍳📚🌍✍🏾🍜

Over the past 6 months, I’ve been working with 6 inspiring women of
Heart&Parcel to co-create CuiZine—an online zine exploring “The social lives of food” through a series of collaborative workshops. 🧵

Read and share widely!

#CuiZine #foodstories #zinemaking
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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · Aug 4
🌱 Can nature-based solutions help tackle climate change and support informal livelihoods?

In Kumasi, Ghana, #USFInternationalFellow Michael Osei Asibey & Patrick Cobbinah explore how nature-based solutions can improve e-waste management in informal settings.

🔗 Read more: ow.ly/NPbM50WyU6A
[Image description: Flyer with USF logo and the cover of the Journal of Environmental Management for the paper "Dialogues on nature-based solutions and informal e-waste management" Authored by Michael Osei Asibey, USF International Fellow, and Patrick Brandful Cobbinah on a Picture via flikr by Dr. RawheaD]
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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · Jul 25
🔔 How are grassroots infrastructures reshaping cities from below?
In this guest post, #USFPostdoctoralFellows @matinakapsali.bsky.social and Nina Ebner reflect on their workshop “Grassroots Infrastructures and Urban Social Reproduction”
📖 Read more: ow.ly/Wbzs50Wve57
#UrbanStudies #Infrastructure
[Image description: Flyer with USF logo and the quote "The impetus of the workshop was to bring scholars and community-based organisations together from different urban contexts to think through how urban communities are building the material and social infrastructures, in response to, in the absence of, and to contest both long-standing (uneven) dynamics of disinvestment and an evolving crisis of care that impact their reproduction. " on a Picture via flikr by Stephano Bertolotti]
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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · Jul 22
🏙️ In The Aesthetics of Belonging, former #USFInternationalFellow Dr Claudia Gastrow explores how top-down urban “reconstruction” displaced communities in Luanda, and how aesthetic dissent reframed informal settlements as sites of belonging.
📘 ow.ly/JEoh50WsZfZ
#UrbanStudies #Luanda #ColonialLegacies
[Image Description: flyer with USF logo and the cover of the Book "The Aesthetics of Belonging Indigenous Urbanism and City Building in Oil-Boom Luanda" with the quote The book “explores the political significance of aesthetics in the remaking of the city (...) shows how government infrastructure projects and foreign-inspired designs came to embody displacement and exclusion for many.” on a Picture of the cover of the Book. ]
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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · Jul 18
🧪 What happens after the crisis?
In our latest guest blog, Carolyn Prouse & Mohammed Rafi Arefin reflect on the “From Crisis to Extended Upheavals” workshop, where #USFPandemicsAndCities grantees explored the lasting impacts of COVID-19 on urban life.
🔗 Read more: ow.ly/GjOA50WqOkj
[Image description: flyer with USF logo and the quote "Nearly 5 years after the WHO declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, four teams of urban researchers funded by USF’s Pandemics & Cities initiative gathered in Detroit for a one-day workshop titled “From Crisis to Extended Upheavals.”" on a Picture via flikr by Russell Charters]
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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · Jul 16
🌍 The Urban Studies Foundation is inviting applications for new Board Trustees. Join us in supporting critical scholarship & funding opportunities in cities around the world.

🗓️ Apply by 8 August
🔗 ow.ly/ugNU50Wa574
#UrbanStudies #TrusteeCall #GlobalUrbanism
[Image description: Flyer with USF logo for the 2025 Call for Trustees. Deadline August 8th, 2025. On a picture of blue buildings by gaikokujinkun]
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Off University @offuniversity.bsky.social · Jul 10
We are honored to be among the recipients of the @urbanstudiesfoundation.org 2025 Seminar Series Award with out lecture series "Cities at War", together with the Beirut Urban Lab, the Institute of Social Sciences @humboldtuni.bsky.social, the University of Rojava and Diyarbakır Association (DKVD).
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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · Jul 10
We are happy to reveal the fourteen projects supported in our 2025 Seminar Series Awards!
👉 Read more about the grants here: www.urbanstudiesfoundation.org/2025/07/09/a...
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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · Jul 10
We are happy to reveal the fourteen projects supported in our 2025 Seminar Series Awards!
👉 Read more about the grants here: www.urbanstudiesfoundation.org/2025/07/09/a...
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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · Jul 1
Next week! #USFatISAForumRabat
1️⃣Violence, Governance and Politics...
🗓️ 9 July
👉 ow.ly/A1NC50WiMJp
2️⃣ Lived Religion and the Multiple Governance of Ordinary Life...
🗓️ 10 July
👉 ow.ly/i2Qb50WiMJo
3️⃣ Housing Inequality and Justice
🗓️ 11 July 2025
👉 ow.ly/tYft50WiMJr

#ISAForum2025 #ISA #Rabat
Flyer for the events "Violence, Governance and Politics in a Brazilian Favela and an Argentinean Slum 🗓️ 9 July 2025 19:15 (GMT+1) 📍 FSE014 (Faculty of Education Sciences, FSE) Lived Religion and the Multiple Governance of Ordinary Life in Latin American Urban Margins 🗓️ 10 July 2025 13:30 (GMT+1) 📍ASJE018 (Annex of the Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Social Sciences) “Housing Inequality and Justice” 🗓️ 11 July 2025: 09:00-10:45 (GMT+1) 📍 FSE023 (Faculty of Education Sciences, FSE)
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