This article by Dr Myfanwy Taylor outlines some of the work of Understanding and Enhancing the Community Value of Traditional Retail Markets in UK Cities (Markets4People), an ESRC-funded project that explores the challenges facing retail markets…
This blog by Nereida Ripero-Muñiz describes some of the participatory methodologies employed with Somali migrants in Johannesburg as part of the activities of the project Security at the Margins (SeaM): Spaces and Strategies for Negotiating Security…
In this blog post, Lauren Andres and Stuart Denoon-Stevens describe the findings of the South African Planning Education Research (SAPER) project and some of its key implications for the future of South African cities. The SAPER…
Turning Livelihoods to Rubbish? Assessing the Impacts of Formalization and Technologization of Waste Management on the Urban Poor is a recently completed three-year project ESRC-funded project that investigated the impacts of changes in waste management in…
This blog by the STEPS (Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability) Centre’s Becky Ayre describes some of the work of the TAPESTRY project, led by Lyla Mehta and exploring climate change adaptation in marginal urban…
This blog by Christopher Yap has been reposted from the Knowledge in Action for Urban Equality (KNOW) website. All images are by David Heymann. We know cities are unequal places. The global GINI Index describes decreasing…
Governance and the Local Integration of Migrants and Europe’s Refugees (GLIMER) is a three-year ESRC-funded project exploring how the migration crisis can be translated into opportunities for European cities through the implementation of sustainable integration strategies…
Louise Reardon outlines some of the work of the programme UNDERstanding Indian Urban Governance REFORM: A Comparative Analysis of the Smart City Mission Reforms and Their Impact on Sustainable Urban Mobility. This blog is reposted from the…
By Neil Adger, Ricardo Safra de Campos and Tasneem Siddiqui. This text outlines the work of the Safe and Sustainable Cities: Human Security, Migration and Wellbeing project and was first given as a lecture in October 2018 at…
Conventional analyses of crime, based on European research models, are often poorly suited to assessing the specific dimensions of criminality in Africa. Development Frontiers in Crime, Livelihoods and Urban Poverty in Nigeria (FCLP) aims to provide an alternative…
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