Around a billion people across the world live in shack settlements where fire outbreaks pose a constant threat to life, health and property. In a context where many residents lack access to electricity and the absence…
Well managed and equitable urban planning can help address many of the major economic, social and environmental challenges currently facing countries across Africa. This is particularly the case in South Africa, where a high level of…
In response to the increasingly complex development challenges posed by today’s cities, Building Capacity for the Future City in Developing Countries (PEAK) seeks to foster a new approach to urban policy making and research through the…
The University of Coventry has recently announced two fully funded 3.5 year studentships, closely linked with the WASTE FEW ULL project. These are ‘System dynamics modelling of linked circular economies‘ and ‘Agent‐based modelling of linked circular…
With over half of the population living in urban areas and the numbers increasing daily, cities are facing unprecedented demographic, environmental, economic, social and spatial challenges. That is a call to which the GCRF Centre for…
While urbanisation can drive poverty reduction in developing countries, in a context of rapid and inequitable growth many cities have seen certain groups, such as rural to urban migrants, increasingly marginalised from public services and other…
Resource waste is one of the most pressing challenges facing city regions today, and is especially acute at the interface of urban food, energy and waster systems. WASTE FEW ULL (Waste Food-Energy-Water Urban Living Labs –…
Call for applications: 14 November deadline Gauteng, South Africa, 21-23 February 2019 The Academy of Science of South Africa and the British Academy are inviting applications from early career researchers in the humanities and social sciences…
Security at the Margins (SeaM) project member SJ Cooper-Knock researches urban inclusion. This blog, which is reposted from the SeaM website, is drawn from her recent work on the everyday lives of informal settlement residents in…
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…
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