As urban food insecurity attracts growing interest in policy debates, Cecilia Tacoli – Principal Investigator of the project How the Urban Poor Define and Measure Food Insecurity and Nutrition – makes the case for ensuring that the…
This blog by Varun Patil, a researcher on the project Learning from Small Cities: Governing Imagined Futures and the Dynamics of Change in India’s Smart Urban Age, outlines Jalandhar’s planned reinvention as a ‘smart city’, focused…
This blog by Ayona Datta, Principal Investigator of the project Learning from Small Cities: Governing Imagined Futures and the Dynamics of Change in India’s Smart Urban Age, outlines the hopes and aspirations of Shimla as it…
This blog by Gillian Rose explores the challenges of making smart cities more inclusive and the findings of her ESRC-funded project, Smart Cities in the Making: Learning from Milton Keynes. One of the main outputs of…
This blog by Professor Michael Keith, Coordinator of the Urban Transformations portfolio and PI of the Building Capacity for the Future City in Developing Countries (PEAK) project, is reposted from the PEAK Urban website. The hubris…
This blog, authored by Paula Meth and drawing on the writings of her collaborators and findings of the ESRC-funded project Living the Urban Periphery: Investment, Infrastructure and Economic Change in African City-Regions, presents some of the…
This extract from the book Urban Energy Landscapes by Vanesa Castán Broto, published in April 2019 by Cambridge University Press and drawing on the research of the ESRC-funded Mapping Urban Energy Landscapes (MUEL) in the Global…
With design quality high on the agenda for government and the housing industry, research by UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE) is exploring how design value is delivered at each stage in the development process.…
This blog by James Dumin and Susan Parnell outlines their work on the South African Cities Support Programme (CSP) and its lessons for future urban research. This blog was reposted from the recently launched website of…
“São Paulo cannot stop.” This has been the motto of the richest and most populous city in Brazil since the beginning of its industrialisation in the early 20th century. Considered today as one of the most…
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