Dr Max Nathan is Deputy Director of the ESRC-funded What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth. This blog was originally published on the Centre’s blog. We were in Manchester recently to reflect on the work of…
With an estimated 350 million new urban residents projected over the next two decades, the speed of China’s urban expansion is unprecedented. From innovative planning and increased prosperity to social upheaval and environmental trauma, the challenges and…
Community-led Upgrading for Self-Reliance in South Africa: Integrated Construction and Environmental Management Systems in Informal Settlements, a three-year project jointly funded by the ESRC and Newton Fund, seeks to promote a better understanding of bottom-up improvements…
Launched in January 2015, the ESRC-funded Urban Transformations project Super-diverse Streets: Economies and Spaces of Urban Migration in UK Cities explores the dynamics of the ‘super-diverse street’ in a selection of British cities, including Birmingham, Bristol,…
Nicholas Simcik-Arese On May 6th 2016 UN-Habitat, the United Nations agency for human settlements and sustainable urban development, released the Zero Draft of its “New Urban Agenda”. This cornerstone policy document, to be finalized at Habitat…
In this post Steven Griggs, David Howarth and Andrés Feandeiro report the findings from the exploratory research in Nantes, carried out as part of the Collaborative Governance under Austerity project, sponsored by the Economic and Social…
In this post Hayley Henderson, Brendan Gleeson and Helen Sullivan report the findings from the exploratory research in Melbourne, carried out as part of the Collaborative Governance under Austerity project, sponsored by the Economic and Social Research Council as part of…
In this post, Gregoire Autin reports the findings from the exploratory research in Montreal, carried out as part of the Collaborative Governance under Austerity project, sponsored by the Economic and Social Research Council as part of…
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…
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