This piece by Gillian Rose follows her participation in the recent Urban Transformations workshop in Brussels, Belgium, Experimenting with Urban Living Labs (ULLs) Beyond Smart City Regions. It beings together a discussion of her ESRC-funded project,…
David Dodman At a meeting of community organisations in Ibadan, Nigeria, local government officials and academics explored how to deal with the risks facing Africa’s urban poor. Challenging long-held assumptions about how African cities work –…
Bertie Russell The Jam & Justice project are producing a map of Participatory Urban Governance. Drawing from across the Global South & North, we are looking to produce a collection of inspiring, workable, and actually existing…
Urban Transformations held a side event at the recent Habitat III event in Quito, Ecuador, ‘Transforming research into practices and policies – dialogues on implementation and evaluation of the New Urban Agenda‘. The discussions brought together…
Beth Perry Cities are sites of crisis and opportunity. In a context of rapid social change and austerity, the effectiveness of traditional systems of urban governance is in doubt. Jam and Justice: Co-Producing Urban Governance for…
Michael Guggenheim, Joe Deville and Zuzana Hrdlickova This blog draws on discussions at the 7th ESRC Research Methods Festival, exploring different aspects of knowledge generation and understanding in the academic field, with particular application to the study…
Urban Transformations will be hosting a new seminar series on ‘Migration and urban transformation: Boundaries in an age of resentment’ in Oxford. The series, bringing together a range of leading specialists in the field of migration,…
Romain Dittgen Governing the Future City is an international ESRC-funded project looking at innovative approaches to urban governance and planning in Johannesburg, London and Shanghai. This blog, following on from an introductory article by Jenny Robinson…
Zheng Wang Governing the Future City is an international ESRC-funded project looking at innovative approaches to urban governance and planning in Johannesburg, London and Shanghai. This blog, following on from an introductory article by Jenny Robinson, gives an…
Urban Transformations and VUB-Brussels Centre for Urban Studies have announced a new workshop, ‘Experimenting with Urban Living Laboratories (ULLs) Beyond Smart-City Regions‘, to be held in Brussels on 13 February. Bringing together a range of…
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