Americas – Page 2 – Urban Transformations

Healthy Urban Mobility (HUM) final conference

News

May 24, 2019

The three-year Healthy Urban Mobility (HUM) project took place in Oxford (funded by the ESRC) and three cities in Brazil (funded by FAP) and explored the links between health, wellbeing and mobility. The event on 12…

STEPS (Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability) Centre

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The STEPS (Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability) Centre is a collaborative, multidisciplinary consortium with hubs in Africa, China, Europe, Latin America, North America and South Asia. Focusing on a range of research areas, including…

Waterproofing Data: Engaging Stakeholders in the Sustainable Governance of Flood Risks for Urban Resilience

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Waterproofing Data: Engaging Stakeholders in the Sustainable Governance of Flood Risks for Urban Resilience seeks to support more adaptive, community-approaches to flood preparedness through the development of closer links between citizens and data. Focusing on the…

Lessons from Havana: Reflections on KNOW’s Second Annual Meeting

Blog

May 2, 2019

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…

Building the Barricades: An interdisciplinary Study on Mental and Substance Use Disorders in the Context of Armed Violence in Brazil

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In the Complex of Maré, an assortment of 16 peripheral communities on the margins of Rio de Janeiro, residents must contend with the daily reality of violence at the hands not only of local criminal gangs,…

The Moveable NEXUS: Design-led Sustainable Water, Food and Energy Management within the New Boundary

project

In an age of climate change, cities are particularly vulnerable to pressures on their food, water and energy resources. The Moveable NEXUS: Design-led Sustainable Water, Food and Energy Management within the New Boundary aims to support…

The Urban Brain at the Brocher Foundation

Blog

February 25, 2019

In this blog, reposted from the Urban Brain website, Nikolas Rose describes the outcomes of a recent meeting of the Urban Brain Lab: Mental Health, Migration and the Megacity (M3) team at the Brocher Foundation in Switzerland.…

Knowledge in Action for Urban Equality (KNOW)

project

With over half of the world’s populations living in urban areas, improving the living conditions in every country depends on humanity’s capacity to address urban challenges. Knowledge in Action for Urban Equality (KNOW) is a response…

Building Capacity for the Future City in Developing Countries (PEAK)

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In response to the increasingly complex development challenges posed by today’s cities, Building Capacity for the Future City in Developing Countries (PEAK) seeks to foster a new approach to urban policy making and research through the…

Two PhD Positions Available with the WASTE FEW ULL project

News

February 7, 2019

The University of Coventry has recently announced two fully funded 3.5 year studentships, closely linked with the WASTE FEW ULL project. These are ‘System dynamics modelling of linked circular economies‘ and ‘Agent‐based modelling of linked circular…