Jai and Ketaki Bhadgaonkar (Bombay 61) give this report from the Ideation Workshop in Mumbai for the TAPESTRY project. This blog post draws on a visit undertaken as part of TAPESTRY, a new transdisciplinary project which…
The challenges of left-behind places go well beyond the lack of economic opportunities — the solutions must too. This blog by Elena Magrini, an analyst at Centre for Cities, outlines some of the findings of the…
In this picture blog, the Centre for Sustainable, Healthy, and Learning Cities and Neighbourhoods (SHLC)‘s Ivan Turok explores house building, community development and enterprise expansion in some of Cape Town’s townships. This piece was originally posted…
This blog on the proposed smart city development in Jalandhar by Ayona Datta, Principal Investigor of the project Learning from Small Cities: Governing Imagined Futures and the Dynamics of Change in India’s Smart Urban Age, was…
This blog by Jairo Alejandro Goméz Escobar has been reposted from the PEAK Urban website. As part of PEAK Urban, I am currently leading a research project that aims to model the urban footprint growth of selected…
This blog by Andy Hong was reposted from the PEAK Urban website, with minor amendments to reflect the time of publication. Last Sunday, 22 September, London went car-free. A total of 20km of road across the…
This piece by Liza Rose Cirolia was reposted from the PEAK Urban website and is an edited version of a Commentary originally posted as The Infrastructural Dimensions of African Urbanization. Gaps in infrastructure systems have long histories in…
In this blog, Professor Ya Ping Wang, Director of the Centre for Sustainable, Healthy, and Learning Cities and Neighbourhoods (SHLC), reflects on housing in Kigali’s different neighbourhoods. This piece was originally posted on the SHLC website.…
Dr Igor Calzada is a research fellow, policy adviser and lecturer at the University of Oxford Urban Transformations ESRC and Future Cities programmes. This article was originally featured in the RSA Journal. “We are already becoming…
In this blog Wei Zheng and Cecilia Wong, based at the Department of Planning & Environmental Management at the Manchester Urban Institute, described some of the key findings of the ESRC-funded project Eco-Urbanisation: Promoting Sustainable Development…