Town hall meeting in Birmingham to promote the Urban Living Partnership call and to facilitate networking between potential cosortia.

Urban Encounters is pleased to announce its eighth annual conference focusing on street-based urban photographic practices. As part of a wider programme of events around London exploring critical ideas addressing how ‘the street’ might be experienced,…

THE CITY AS A COMMONS reconceiving urban space, common goods and city governance #cocities Inspired by the recently implemented Bologna Regulation on Collaboration for the Care and Regeneration of the Urban Commons, as well as by…

Chair: Nicholas Falk Keynote Speaker: John Burton, Urban Space Management (Further speakers to be announced shortly) URBED’s roots lie in the relationship between small scale enterprise and the built environment. To this end we were involved…

Cities are the future, as the majority of the population move to live and work in them. Cities offer opportunities for local action, as well as partnership action with other cities coordinated through mayors and city…

The Institute of Commonwealth Studies’ Emeka Anyaoku Visiting Chair, Professor Susan Parnell, will explore the origins and process of the new global policy commitments associated with the Sustainable Development Goals. She will reflect on what the…

March 31 – April 4, 2016, Taipei, Taiwan Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage, University of Birmingham, is pleased to announce our next international conference. We invite academics, policy makers and practitioners to consider the ways…

How can data science address the challenges and opportunities that accelerated urbanisation pose for our cities and the people who live in them? The Future Cities event is coordinated by The Bartlett, UCL’s Faculty of the…

All Soul's College, Oxford Dr Adam Kaasa, an interdisciplinary scholar who specialises in the politics of the city, is presenting a paper which attends to the rhetorical registers of writing, drawing and building through key moments…

The annual conference on “Urban Governance and its Discontents” will be held on 18-19 February 2016 at the University of Oxford. A cornerstone initiative of the Oxford Programme for the Future of Cities, the conference will…

At Smart Cities & Communities: Shaping the Future conference you will get the opportunity to hear from leading speakers from across the globe from both Barcelona (designated “Smartest City of the World” in 2015 by Juniper…

Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage, University of Birmingham, is hosting an international conference from March 31 - April 4 2016 in Taipei, Taiwan. Academics, policy makers and practitioners are invited to consider the ways that…

RSA 2nd North America Conference, Atlanta, USA In the wake of the global financial crisis, cities have searched for new policies and practices capable of addressing major shifts in socio-economic relations at the urban and regional…

12 to 5 July 2016 Universidad La Salle, Mexico City, Mexico In Mexico City, as in many other large cities worldwide, contemporary modes of urban governance have overwhelmingly benefited affluent populations and widened social inequalities. Disinvestment…

14-15 July 2016, St. Catharine's College, Cambridge There is little doubt that cities are navigating a turbulent and uncertain context, and face an unprecedented and intense set of economic, social and environmental challenges. There is mounting…

Urban Transitions 2016 will highlight the latest research and practice towards developing an urban future that is more economically competitive, sustainable and resilient, equitable and inclusive, and digitally supported. This major new event will bring together…

Habitat III is the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development to take place in Quito, Ecuador, from 17 – 20 October 2016. In Resolution 66/207 and in line with the bi-decennial cycle (1976,…

Future of Cities Seminar Series, Michaelmas 2016 Wednesdays 16.30-18.00 - Hovenden Room, All Souls College, Oxford 19 October - The Border and the City: Spatialities of the European Crisis Dimitris Dalakoglou, Chair in Social Anthropology, VU University…

This seminar, part of a series on 'Space and place' organised by Professor Elisabeth Hsu and Dr Carlos Vargas-Silva, is presented by Andreza de Souza Santos. Andreza is a Post-doctoral Research Associate within the Urban Transformations…

At Smart Cities and Communities: Achieving Smart Urban Growth you will have the opportunity to learn how International city projects are using frontier technology to tackle some of the biggest problems and use existing resources smarter.

The smart grid is envisaged to be the next generation electric grid for Smart Cities. It enables the smart integration of conventional power generation, renewable generation, distributed generation, energy storage, transmission, distribution and demand management. The…

Will metro mayors trigger wider public engagement and renewal by providing more accountable, transparent and inclusive local politics?

The Sociological Review is pleased to announce that the 2017 Annual Lecture will be given by Rivke Jaffe, University of Amsterdam

A ‘Great Regional Awakening’ is underway. There is a growing realisation that regional inequalities have both contributed to, and amplified, the ‘Great Recession’ that shook advanced and emerging economies alike. It is also becoming apparent that…

The Research Committee 21 (RC21) of the International Sociology Association, the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR), the Foundation for Urban and Regional Studies (FURS) in collaboration with scholars from University College London (UCL) and Leeds University invite applications for 25 places on our 5th Summer School.

The European Week of Regions and Cities is hosting its annual series of events, workshops and knowledge sharing sessions in Brussels between 9 and 12 October. Bringing together a wide variety of policy makers, practitioners and…

The University of Birmingham and City-REDI is hosting a Birmingham Policy Lab workshop to explore the theme of the financing local public services. As demands on public services grow and austerity looks set to continue, the need to reform and look afresh at…

School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QY 23 January 2018, 16.00 - 17.30 Christoph Lindner is Professor and Dean of the College of Design at the University of Oregon and…

St John's College, Oxford, OX1 3JP Shannon Mattern from the New School (NYC) will be delivering an exciting talk, titled Fifty Eyes on a Scene. This talk replays a single urban scene from the perspective of…

Abstract submission deadline has been extended: 3rd September 2018 We are living through a period of profound change. Fundamental shifts occurring economically (increasing leadership in Asia, new opportunities in Africa, raising connectivity through global investment flows), demographically…

Gauteng, South Africa, 21-23 February 2019 Introduction The Academy of Science of South Africa and the British Academy are inviting applications from early career researchers in the humanities and social sciences to attend a research collaboration…

This joint event will show how EU funded Research and Innovation actions are driving Sustainable Urban Development to address major urban challenges. The event aims to: Inform Members of the European Parliament, City Leaders, policy makers,…

The Transforming Construction Network Plus (N+) is hosting its 2019 Annual Conference, 'Creating a Movement for Change', on Thursday 19 September at the Royal Society in London. This one-day conference seeks to stimulate new perspectives, new ideas…

Across the globe, cities surpass their own contours. Urban cores expand and intensify in size and height, and we see connectivities, nodes and enclaves involving new technologies, information flows, migrations, time/space compressions and everyday rhythms and…

The rapidly growing number of people moving into cities all over the world presents a challenge of unprecedented size. It is crucial to find ways to make urbanisation a source for wealth, health and sustainability –…