Vanesa Castán Broto Will 2016 be an urban year in international development policy? In September 2015, the United Nations Assembly adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to supersede the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). One notable feature…
Dr. Sophie Hadfield-Hill and Dr. Cristiana Zara report on findings from the ESRC-funded ‘New Urbanisms in India’ project, researching children and families’ experiences of urban transformation. Lavasa, a private-led city development currently under construction in the…
This post outlines the main findings from the first round of research carried out by Dr Niamh Gaynor and Dr Eamonn McConnon in Dublin as part of the Collaborative Governance under Austerity project. It forms part…
Madeleine Pill reports on the findings from the exploratory research in Baltimore, carried out as part of the Collaborative Governance under Austerity project, sponsored by the Economic and Social Research Council as part of its Urban Transformations Network, and led by Prof. Jonathan…
Ioannis Chorianopoulos and Naya Tselepi report the findings from the exploratory research in Athens, carried out as part of the Collaborative Governance under Austerity project, sponsored by the Economic and Social Research Council as part of its Urban Transformations Network, and led…
This post summarizes the main findings of the case study of Barcelona from the Collaborative Governance under Austerity project, a comparative study of the impacts of austerity in eight cities in Europe and North America sponsored…
This post outlines the main findings from the first round of research carried out by Prof. Jonathan Davies and Dr. Adrian Bua in Leicester as part of the ESRC-funded Collaborative Governance under Austerity project. It will be…
We are pleased to launch a series of 8 further publications outlining the findings from exploratory research in our 8 case study cities – Athens, Baltimore, Barcelona, Dublin, Leicester, Melbourne, Montreal and Nantes. In this initial…
Gareth Haysom and Jane Battersby Urban agriculture is widely promoted as the solution to the growing problem of urban food insecurity in South Africa and in Africa more broadly. It is said to provide livelihoods and…
People living in the cities of Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Newcastle & Gateshead and York will benefit from a new research and innovation initiative that puts them in the driving seat to help improve their cities’ health,…
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