A seminar on ‘The making of a permanent city for temporary residents‘, part of a series on ‘Space and place’ organised by Professor Elisabeth Hsu and Dr Carlos Vargas-Silva, will be presented by Dr Andreza de…
Bertie Russell The Jam & Justice project are producing a map of Participatory Urban Governance. Drawing from across the Global South & North, we are looking to produce a collection of inspiring, workable, and actually existing…
Urban Transformations held a side event at the recent Habitat III event in Quito, Ecuador, ‘Transforming research into practices and policies – dialogues on implementation and evaluation of the New Urban Agenda‘. The discussions brought together…
Michael Guggenheim, Joe Deville and Zuzana Hrdlickova This blog draws on discussions at the 7th ESRC Research Methods Festival, exploring different aspects of knowledge generation and understanding in the academic field, with particular application to the study…
Urban Transformations will be hosting a new seminar series on ‘Migration and urban transformation: Boundaries in an age of resentment’ in Oxford. The series, bringing together a range of leading specialists in the field of migration,…
Urban planning and health outcomes in cities are closely interlinked, with environmental factors such as sanitation, air quality and green space all acting as important determinants of physical and mental wellbeing. Despite this, however, the two…
Welcome to the Habitat III edition of @utconnect. This edition highlights activities and publications of the Urban Transformations team and portfolio members in relation to the UN Habitat III conference in Quito, Ecuador.
Vanesa Castán Broto Habitat III – the United Nation’s global conference on the future of cities – has come to a close. About 30,000 people gathered in Quito, Ecuador, to discuss the key issues facing cities…
Cathy McIlwaine and Caroline Moser One in three women around the world currently experience gender-based violence. Harmful practices such as trafficking, forced marriage, domestic violence and female genital mutilation occur both in public and in private…
The UN estimates that more than six billion people will live in cities by the year 2045 – compared with fewer than four billion today. But these huge numbers hide subtle complexities. Every city is growing…
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