Simon Jeffrey England’s new metro mayors have now been in office for eight months. As the first occupiers of the mayoralties, they’ve faced the double task of setting up their office and building relationships with their…
In June 2017, the RSA Annual Conference ‘The Great Regional Awakening‘ brought together a variety of thinkers and practitioners to explore the growing importance of regions in shaping the social, economic and political fabric of cities…
Alex Whinnom is Co-Investigator of Jam and Justice: Co-producing Urban Governance for Social Innovation. He is Chief Executive of the Greater Manchester Centre for Voluntary Organisation. In this blog, he reflects on the significance of a…
Nicola Headlam This blog discusses a set of challenges relating to digital and spatial governance and the potentially disruptive roles of innovative urban methodologies in policies and strategies for more liveable and sustainable cities. It examines…
As part of the ongoing collaboration between Urban Transformations and a number of European partners, including the Brussels Centre for Urban Studies, Cosmopolis and Brussels Academy at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, the final seminar in the series…
On 21 November 2017, Professor Michael Keith and Dr Andreza de Souza Santos travelled to Brasilia, Brazil where they held meetings with the Migration Observatory at the University of Brasilia to discuss an upcoming project which will connect…
Dr Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos It could have been just another summer, but in 2012 I felt the inconvenient symptoms of dust allergy accompanied by a skin rash. After a medical consultation the doctor quickly…
John Bryson is Principal Investigator of the ESRC-funded Urban Living project From Citizen to Co-innovator, from City Council to Facilitator. This blog was cross-posted from the Urban Living Birmingham website. Cities should be interesting places to live and…
Ron Martin is Principal Investigator of the ESRC-funded project Structural Transformation, Adaptability and City Economic Evolutions. This article is reposted from Cambridge Econometrics. In his budget speech (24 November, 2017), the Chancellor of the Exchequer made much of…
Living the Urban Periphery: Investment, Infrastructure and Economic Change in African City-Regions is a three-year research programme examining the little understood dynamics of the urban margins in sub-Saharan Africa, with a focus on two city regions…
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