Improving resilience in African cities – some findings from the Urban ARK project

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The Urban Africa: Risk Knowledge (Urban ARK) project, a three-year project initiated in January 2015, is exploring the challenges and opportunities to strengthen resilience in African cities through first-hand research in six cities in sub-Saharan Africa:…

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Fighting injustice helps in creating resilient urban spaces

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This piece by Gina Ziervogel and Lorena Pasquini, researchers on the Urban Africa: Risk Knowledge (Urban ARK) project, is a repost of an article originally published on The Conversation. Resilience is a word that’s thrown around…

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Addressing the needs of vulnerable groups in urban areas

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This is the second of a series of three blogs by David Satterthwaite for the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and the Urban Africa: Risk Knowledge (Urban ARK) project. Additional research outputs from the project can…

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Urban risks: where are the top five biggest blind spots?

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This is the first of a series of three blogs by David Satterthwaite for the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and the Urban Africa: Risk Knowledge (Urban ARK) project. Additional research outputs from the project…

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Nantes and Collaborative Governance: ‘Participation? It’s in our DNA!’

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Andrés Feandeiro, Steven Griggs and David Howarth This is the final instalment in a new series of blogs on the Centre for Urban Research on Austerity (CURA) and its ESRC-funded project, Collaborative Governance Under Austerity: An…

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Montreal: In search of a new approach for defining social solidarity

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Pierre Hamel, Roger Keil and Grégoire Autin This is the seventh in a new series of blogs on the Centre for Urban Research on Austerity (CURA) and its ESRC-funded project, Collaborative Governance Under Austerity: An Eight-Case Comparative…

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False hopes? Four claims surrounding the English metro mayors

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Andy Pike Both at CURDS and as part of the City Evolutions research, we have been wrestling with the potentials and perils of decentralised governance in the UK. For the City Evolutions research in particular, we…

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Bridging European Urban Transformations – Building a better understanding of the future of Europe’s cities

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In 2016 Urban Transformations launched a new series of seminars, Building European Urban Transformations, to take place in Brussels until the end of 2017. Working with a selection of European partners, including the Brussels Centre for…

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Austerity and grassroots mobilization in Athens: The emergence of an urban governance divide?

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Ioannis Chorianopoulos and Nayia Tselepi This is the seventh in a new series of blogs on the Centre for Urban Research on Austerity (CURA) and its ESRC-funded project, Collaborative Governance Under Austerity: An Eight-Case Comparative Study, focusing…

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Cultural Diversity and Collaboration in Dandenong, Melbourne

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Helen Sullivan, Hayley Henderson and Brendan Gleeson This is the sixth in a new series of blogs on the Centre for Urban Research on Austerity (CURA) and its ESRC-funded project, Collaborative Governance Under Austerity: An Eight-Case Comparative…

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