19 November book launch: The Politics of Memory in Brazil Venue: Latin American Centre Author: Andreza de Souza Santos in conversation with Sandra Jovchelovitch (LSE) and Katerina Chatzikidi (Graduate Institute Geneva) Chair: Elizabeth Ewart, Head 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…
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…
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…
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,…
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.…
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…
This blog by Peter Kraftl, Principal Investigator of the project (Re)Connect the Nexus: Young Brazilians’ Experiences of and Learning About Food-Water-Energy, was originally posted on the RGS-IGB Geography Directions website. The Guardian newspaper recently reported that…
Resource waste is one of the most pressing challenges facing city regions today, and is especially acute at the interface of urban food, energy and waster systems. WASTE FEW ULL (Waste Food-Energy-Water Urban Living Labs –…
This piece by Andreza de Souza Santos is an introduction to the new edition of UT Connect, looking at different elements of the Brazil-UK research collaboration on cities. Children living in small municipalities in the state…