The UN estimates that more than six billion people will live in cities by the year 2045 – compared with fewer than four billion today. But these huge numbers hide subtle complexities. Every city is growing…
UT held an event at Habitat III asking how this grand global conference might make a difference to the billions of people who will live in the future cities of the world.
At Habitat III, UK-based scholarship remains at the very cusp of urban thought in international development circles, building on its rich critical, and practical tradition in a myriad of uncharted ways. Urban Transformations is working to…
Next week, the city of Quito, Ecuador, plays host to the third ever United Nations conference on housing and sustainable urban development, also known as Habitat III.
The Urban Transformations Network, UK Economic and Social Research Council (UT-ESRC) is partnering with the Conversation to develop a series of articles on publicly funded UK research at the UN Habitat III summit in Quito, Ecuador. We will…
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…
Phase one of the Urban Living Partnership, a first-of-its-kind investment by the seven UK Research Councils and the government’s innovation agency, Innovate UK, brings citizens together with university researchers, local authorities and over 70 partners from…
Transforming research into practices and policies: Dialogues on implementation and evaluation of the new urban agenda A Habitat III Side Event convened by: Urban Transformations Network, United Kingdom Economic and Social Research Council (UK-ESRC) Time: 17…
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