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Feature 10: CHINA, THE GLOBAL INFRASTRUCTURE RACE AND ITS URBAN IMPACTS - A panel with Jon Silver, Zhengli Huang and Linda Westman

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@unishefplayer.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social @sperishefuni.bsky.social

And he won! For some insight into how @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social got there, listen to the discussion from July with @katiepruszynski.bsky.social, @itsbethperry.bsky.social and @goodfellowtom.bsky.social

Full episode here open.spotify.com/episode/2GhJ...

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Join us for a full day of mobilisation at the University of Sheffield on 11/11/2025 from 11am to 4pm (no need to register)

Programme and more information here: sheffield.ac.uk/migration-re...

Radar 10: GREEN RESURGENCE & GAZA RECONSTRUCTION (+Brexit, +rats, +Louvre heist, +AI Friend and more)

@un-habitat.bsky.social World Cities Day! And another episode of #urbanradar

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Tune in for @goodfellowtom.bsky.social and @itsbethperry.bsky.social talking @zackpolanski.bsky.social with @mattflinders.bsky.social, & Gaza reconstruction with Said Zaaneen

Another taster of the latest #UrbanRadar feature on Humanity's Urban Future with Ash Amin, @goodfellowtom.bsky.social and @itsbethperry.bsky.social

@britishacademy.bsky.social @unishefplayer.bsky.social

Listen to this clip of @xazaaradjame.bsky.social in conversation with @itsbethperry.bsky.social and @goodfellowtom.bsky.social with Ash Amin, drawing on work for @britishacademy.bsky.social and CIFAR

@michelelancione.bsky.social @theurbaninstitute.bsky.social

@unishefplayer.bsky.social @michelelancione.bsky.social @acuto.bsky.social @sueparnell.bsky.social @goodfellowtom.bsky.social @itsbethperry.bsky.social

Feature 9: HUMANITY'S URBAN FUTURE - A conversation with AbdouMaliq Simone and Ash Amin

A very special episode of #UrbanRadar #podcast to share this Urban October.
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HUMANITY'S URBAN FUTURE with @xazaaradjame.bsky.social and Ash Amin

Featuring work funded by CIFAR with the @britishacademy.bsky.social

Panorama - The Race to Build 1.5 Million Homes The government’s made a very big promise: to build 1.5 million new homes in England by 2029. Anita Rani and Justin Rowlatt travel the length of the country to find out if it can be done.

“That’s the biggest misunderstanding in this country of the housing crisis. That it’s a crisis reserved for the poorest people in insecure jobs…”

@drabioconnor.bsky.social talks to BBC Panorama’s Anita Rani as part of their investigation into the UK housing crisis.

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Check out this excellent interview given by @drabioconnor.bsky.social to #PoliticsLive on mass displacement and rent rises in Manchester

Catch up here with @theurbaninstitute.bsky.social as it celebrates 10 years of urban research @sheffielduni.bsky.social

My Global Corridor newsletter #5 is out now

This issue features stories, data, opinion + academic work from Pakistani ports to Russia in Sudan to Middle Eastern railways to the longest film ever (on logistics)....

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Looking forward to The World Transformed Festival of radical politics, art and culture kicking off tomorrow...

I'm involved in two sessions, a panel looking at the power of Abu Dhabi in the UK/MCR + a walking tour of financialised MCR

More info here theworldtransformed.org/twt25/twt25p...

And here's @simonrushton.bsky.social chatting to the very same @goodfellowtom.bsky.social and @itsbethperry.bsky.social on Nepal's uprising and local peace-building processes in Colombia

Sneak preview of @samburgum.bsky.social speaking to #urbanradar podcast hosts @itsbethperry.bsky.social and @goodfellowtom.bsky.social on this month's radar

It was a great pleasure and privilege to have this small book review forum on ‘Politics and the Urban Frontier’ in @urbanstudiesjournal.com. Thank you to all involved!

Radar 9: CONFLICT & URBAN TERRITORY - FROM UK HOMELESSNESS TO UPRISING IN NEPAL (+West Bank settlements, +witchcraft, +cars and more)

New episode of #UrbanRadar!

In this month’s scan of global urban news, @itsbethperry.bsky.social and @goodfellowtom.bsky.social discuss #HOMELESSNESS in the UK with @samburgum.bsky.social, before turning to the #UPRISING in Nepal with @simonrushton.bsky.social:

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JustGESI launches in Cape Town and Sheffield During Urban October the Urban Institute is delighted to be organising two in-person launches for the JustGESI project - Mainstreaming Gender Equality and Social Inclusion for a Just Energy Transition...

JustGESI launches in Cape Town and Sheffield
- Mainstreaming Gender Equality and Social Inclusion for a Just Energy Transition in Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania.

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New episode out now! A great listen for researchers, students, and advocates for knowledge coproduction

Featuring Diana Mitlin, Melanie Lombard, myself & @goodfellowtom.bsky.social

@coprofutures.bsky.social @africancities.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social @unishefplayer.bsky.social

This is phenomenal news! Congratulations to @vanesilla.bsky.social and @theurbaninstitute.bsky.social for this prestigious accolade.

Vanesa Castán Broto joins new group of scientists to advance SDGs Huge congratulations to Vanesa Castán Broto, Professor of Climate Urbanism, for being selected by the United Nations to join a new group of scientists to help advance science-driven acceleration of th...

Huge congratulations to Vanesa Castán Broto, Professor of Climate Urbanism, for being selected by the United Nations to join a new group of scientists to help advance science-driven acceleration of the Sustainable Development Goals.

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Feature 8: URBAN INFORMALITY AND TRANSLOCAL LEARNING - A conversation with Melanie Lombard and Diana Mitlin

New #UrbanRadar!

URBAN INFORMALITY & TRANSLOCAL LEARNING

In this feature, we discuss how urban community organisations in the global North - in Manchester & Sheffield - have learned from those in the South.

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@goodfellowtom.bsky.social @itsbethperry.bsky.social

Andy Burnham, the man who would be king The Greater Manchester mayor has made no secret of his Labour leadership ambitions, but faces significant obstacles

I was fortunate enough to interview @andyburnham.bsky.social for #urbanradar podcast and hear first-hand about broken Britain & what is needed to rewire systems and rebalance power

I was convinced by much of it - listen here

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New #OpenAccess article from @goodfellowtom.bsky.social, @zhengli-huang.bsky.social and Metadel Sileshi Belihu:

FORCE AND ASPIRATION: #Mobility and #Class Formation on the #Peripheries of #Addis Ababa

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Moving trailer for @invisiblemapper.bsky.social new GLOBALCORRIDOR film directed by Spyros Gerousis

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Co-production of Knowledge in Action Co-production of actionable knowledge as a development strategy entails working in partnership with different institutions and sharing power so that communities can participate in planning urban futur...

New book from Vanesa Castán Broto + collaborators

Co-production of Knowledge in Action
Emancipatory strategies for urban equality

(OPEN ACCESS with UCL Press)

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The ‘Gaza Riviera’ is a fantasy plan that relies on urbicide and expulsion The leaked redevelopment plan pays homage to mega projects in the Gulf.

"The ‘Gaza Riviera’ is a fantasy plan that relies on urbicide and expulsion"

Jon Silver in the Conversation

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What drives land value change in African cities? Unlocking value and the prospects for progressive reform - ACRC The urgency of developing more effective mechanisms to capture rising land values for urban infrastructure and services is now widely acknowledged. It is also accepted that this is highly challenging.

📍 What really drives land value change in African cities?

@goodfellowtom.bsky.social explores how findings from our land and connectivity research challenge some of the dominant notions on which ideas of value capture are based 👇
www.african-cities.org/what-drives-...

"This article examines the doubleness of precarity as an atmosphere of both how life is made marginal and how life exceeds the margins imposed."

@xazaaradjame.bsky.social

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