The PARCOUR Handbook – Effective Policy Delivery in Contractual Urban Regeneration

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Dr David Williams The Public Accountability to Residents in Contractual Urban Redevelopment (PARCOUR) project has recently completed its project handbook, exploring examples of effective policy delivery in the nine case studies spread across Brazil, the Netherlands…

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Back to the ‘Urban Commons’? Social Innovation through New Co-operative Forms in Europe

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Professor Michael Keith and Dr Igor Calzada, MBA                The fourth and final workshop from the series ‘Bridging European Urban Transformations’ took place on 12 February 2018. The title of the workshop was ‘Rethinking the Urban Commons…

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PhD studentship on urban inequality, health and transit

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The challenge of urban inequality to promote health, wellbeing and sustainable travel behaviour Eligibility: Home/EU and International Students Bursary: £15,000 per annum for three years + £4,500 for research support, including travel and subsistence for visits…

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Citizenship in a changing multi-scalar post-Brexit European context

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Professor Michael Keith and Dr Igor Calzada, MBA                The third workshop from the series ‘Bridging European Urban Transformations’ took place in the neighbourhood of Molenbeek in Brussels on 11 September 2017. Entitled ‘Scaling Migration Through the European…

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Call for Abstracts: Urbanisation, Infrastructures and Everyday Life in East Asia

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A major conference, ‘Urbanisation, Infrastructures and Everyday Life in East Asia‘, will be held on 1-3 May 2019 at the University of Manchester. The event will explore different aspects of the design and planning of infrastructure…

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UT event in China: City Futures and contemporary urban research

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Urban Transformations, as part of its ongoing collaboration with Chinese research institutions, will be hosting a workshop in Beijing, ‘City Futures and contemporary urban research’, on 11-12 July 2018. More details about the event can be…

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Newcastle City Futures: The whirlwind experience of trying to innovate a city

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Mark Tewdwr-Jones The UKRI/Innovate UK urban living partnership (ULP) pilot for Newcastle and Gateshead ended on 31 January 2018 after an 18-month pilot. As discussed in my previous blog, ‘Stories from the academy: Newcastle City Futures‘, the ULP,…

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Disparities in housing quality and affordability between social groups — A study within the ASTRID project

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Like Jiang and Alex Hagen-Zanker The ASTRID project The ASTRID (Accessibility, Social justice and TRansport emission Impacts of transit-oriented Development strategies) project seeks to investigate the causal mechanisms underlying disparity and social injustice in job accessibility…

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Making urban development more accountable: The PARCOUR handbook

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  The Urban Transformations project Public Accountability to Residents in Contractual Urban Redevelopment (PARCOUR) has focused for the last three years on exploring various models of public-private contracts for urban regeneration, looking at nine case studies in…

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Urban Transformation and ‘New Style’ Urbanisation in China

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9 – 12 July 2018, University of Glasgow The 2018 International Conference on Urban Development will bring together researchers from urban studies, geography, sociology, political science, urban planning, urban management and public policy as well as…

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