This blog, by Rhiannon Law at the Urban Big Data Centre (UBDC), is reposted from the UBDC website. As you walk along city streets you probably aren’t thinking much about what lies beneath the surface of…
Dr Igor Calzada introduces the latest edition of UT Connect, summarising the activities of a collaborative workshop series that took place between 2016 and 2018 in Brussels, ‘Bridging European Urban Transformations‘. Spanning a range of issues…
The latest volume of UT Connect, following on from previous editions such as the Habitat III special issue and a UK-themed edition, showcases the outcomes of the Bridging European Urban Transformations initiative. Organised in collaboration with a range…
The latest volume of the ESRC’s Society Now magazine features a detailed profile of Professor Michael Keith, Coordinator of the Urban Transformations portfolio, and his thoughts on the ways that cities are now reshaping almost every…
In this profile, first featured in Society Now and reproduced here, Arild Foss talks to Professor Michael Keith about the ESRC Urban Transformations network and his work on how cities function, how different interventions can improve…
The latest volume of UT Connect, following on from previous editions such as the Habitat III special issue, showcases some of the UK-focused work of the Urban Transformations portfolio. Spanning austerity governance, gentrification and rioting to…
The much-awaited Social Housing Green Paper was recently released and one of the main proposals is to introduce league tables to rank the performance of social landlords. In this blog, cross-posted from the UK Collaborative Centre…
‘The challenges of the 21st century are in reality the challenges of the city.’ This summer the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) launched a short video on the future of cities, highlighting the work of…
Security at the Margins (SeaM) project member SJ Cooper-Knock researches urban inclusion. This blog, which is reposted from the SeaM website, is drawn from her recent work on the everyday lives of informal settlement residents in…
Ryan Woolrych Population ageing and urbanisation have raised challenges in terms of how we can best design communities to support an ageing population. Urban areas offer potential advantages in supporting older adults to age-in-place including proximity…
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