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…
Applications are now open for SHLC’s Capacity Development Acceleration Fund and Visiting Research Fellowship. The SHLC small grants fund supports a visiting research fellowship programme, as well as pilot research, knowledge mobilisation and research management projects, to help…
What is it like to live in one of the world’s largest and fastest growing cities? What might a person living in Govanhill, Glasgow, have in common with a person living in Daryaganj, Delhi? This photography exhibition at…
How do we create meaningful and relevant impact in international research projects funded by Overseas Development Assistance (ODA)? How is ODA-related research impact different to that measured in the UK’s Research Excellence Framework (REF)? Where can…
What drives formal urban employment in a developing economy with informality? In this PEAK Urban lecture, Eduardo Lora investigates a model that combines two sources of urban agglomeration economies: complementarities at the firm level between workers…
The Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) in partnership with the Maison Française d’Oxford will be hosting a series of seminars this autumn themed around ‘City Networks and Migration Governance’. These will take place every…
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 year the Northern Housing Consortium launched #OurNorth, a celebration of the role local authorities and housing associations play in creating the communities in which 15 million people live. But #OurNorth is not just about highlighting…
The Place-Making with Older Adults: Towards Age-Friendly Communities (PLACEAGE) project (2016-19) has been undertaking research to explore how older adults experience ageing across different neighbourhoods and to identify implications for the delivery of Age-Friendly Cities and…
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…
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