Dr Nicola Headlam of Urban Transformations delivered a keynote speech at a joint National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT) in Mexico and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Smart Cities Workshop in Mexico City.…
In this blog Dabo Guan, Principal Investigator of the ESRC-funded project Euro-China GE: Dynamics of Green Growth in European and Chinese Cities (DRAGON), discusses some of the findings of the China Emission Accounts and Dataset (CEADs)…
Urban Living Birmingham The Greener, Smarter Communities and Cities Geovation Challenge is focused on developing solutions to communities’ real needs for future-proofing the communities and cities in which we live. Geovation sees ‘smart communities’ as placing people first, with…
Jonathan Bright Over the last decade or so there has been an explosion of research interest in the area of measuring (and forecasting) of traffic and commuting patterns. Part of this is driven by ever increasing human mobility:…
Urban Transformations will be hosting a workshop on ‘Cities in Transition: Unequal Innovation in African Cities’ on 31 January 2018 in Cape Town, South Africa. The event will bring together a range of speakers to explore the…
David Dodman is Director of Human Settlements at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). The idea of a Special Planning Area might not immediately be alluring. But for the residents of Mukuru, one of…
Max Nathan The growth of shared, flexible urban workspaces for startups and SMEs is now a striking, and very visible feature of British cities. Over the past decade or so, startups and small firms in retail,…
Karen Bell is Principal Investigator of the project Fair and Inclusive Environmental/Social Transition Alternatives: Learning from the ‘Living Well’ and ‘Green Economy’ Pathways to Sustainability and is Senior Research Associate at the School for Policy Studies, University of…
Urban Transformations will be hosting with its partners, People’s Palace Projects and Casa Rio, an event on ‘Research and metropolitan health in unequal cities‘. Bringing together a range of participants and speakers, it will take place…
In this blog Paula Meth, one of the Principal Investigators of the project Living the Urban Periphery: Investment, Infrastructure and Economic Change in African City-Regions, a comparative study of peri-urban areas in South Africa and Ethiopia,…
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