Professor Michael Keith and Dr Igor Calzada, MBA The third workshop from the series ‘Bridging European Urban Transformations’ took place in the neighbourhood of Molenbeek in Brussels on 11 September 2017. Entitled ‘Scaling Migration Through the European…
Mark Tewdwr-Jones The UKRI/Innovate UK urban living partnership (ULP) pilot for Newcastle and Gateshead ended on 31 January 2018 after an 18-month pilot. As discussed in my previous blog, ‘Stories from the academy: Newcastle City Futures‘, the ULP,…
Like Jiang and Alex Hagen-Zanker The ASTRID project The ASTRID (Accessibility, Social justice and TRansport emission Impacts of transit-oriented Development strategies) project seeks to investigate the causal mechanisms underlying disparity and social injustice in job accessibility…
Naomi Clayton Today marks the half-way point in the two-year time limit for Brexit negotiations under Article 50. While there is now a transition deal in place to avoid a cliff-edge exit next year, there is…
Sabrina da Rosa Machry The Healthy Urban Mobility (HUM) project is entering its final stage. The research aims to find relevant correlations between urban morphology, modes of transport and its effects in individual and collective health,…
Andreza de Souza Santos A building on fire in the city centre of Sao Paulo, and what follows is that same building falling to pieces, with people still inside. The event is sadly predictable. In a…
Dr Janice Astbury As a result of their scale and range of activities, universities have a tremendous impact on the neighbourhoods around them. If a university is attentive to the needs of its neighbours, this impact…
This blog by Glyn Williams presents an overview of the ESRC-funded project Developing Research Capacity for Inclusive Urban Governance: a Sheffield-Witwatersrand PhD Training Partnership, and the opportunity presented by planning education to help address many of the…
John Drury,1 Clifford Stott,2 Roger Ball,1, 2 Fergus Neville,3 Steve Reicher,3 Sanj Choudhury1 1.University of Sussex, 2. Keele University, 3. University of St Andrews In this blogpost, I describe some of the initial findings from our…
Dr. Lisa Richaud and Dr. Jie Li Since the late nineteenth century urban transformation has been associated with mental illness. But questions around the specificity of the relationship – why does mental illness cluster in cities?…
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