Nick Malleson I recently attended a conference, hosted at Wilton Park, called “Disrupting cities through technology”. The event brought together a diverse group of people, from business, academia, and the public sector, all from a variety…
De Montfort University is advertising a fully funded PhD opportunity to research on securitisation in urban policy making. The bursary focuses on the impact of security policy on subnational levels of government and the implications for…
20-24 June 2016, São Paulo, Brazil – calls for applications ICTP-South-American Institute for Fundamental Research R. Dr. Bento Teobaldo Ferraz 271, bloco IFT 01140-070 São Paulo, Brazil http://www.ictp-saifr.org Committee: Roberto Kraenkel, Deljana Iossifova, Ulysses Sengupta Background…
Caroline Moser The Habitat III negotiations offer a unique opportunity to recognize the centrality of gender in urban policy and practice. But these will not be successful unless fundamental changes are incorporated. In the build-up to…
Michele Acuto Pressing problems such as climate change, pandemics, and inequality significantly affect cities in an urbanizing world, and in turn impact a growing proportion of humanity living in urban areas. For these reasons we now…
Deljana Iossifova Cities are complex adaptive systems, combining spatiotemporal and behavioural structures that are affected by and affect individual and collective agents. Newly available urban data sets carry potential for the development of methods for an…
Michael Batty Our ESRC project with the University of Sao Paulo and Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE), launched on 26-27 November in Sao Paulo at the Center for Metropolitan Studies, aims to map the impacts of…
Vanesa Castán Broto With over 70% of the population thought to be living in urban areas by 2050, environmental challenges are necessarily urbanisation challenges too. Promoting urban energy transition to ensure cleaner, more sustainable sources of…
Jonathan Bright NEXUS: Real Time Data Fusion and Network Analysis for Urban Systems is an exciting new project launched by the Oxford Internet Institute in September 2015. One of the key aims of our project is…
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