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Sharing Lessons from Dhaka鈥檚 Wetlands 鈥 ReWET ReVIEW 2024鈥25

Urban Institute Associate Tanzil Shafique is excited to share the first edition of the ReWET ReVIEW 鈥 a reflection on a year of collective learning from learning and action from the The ReWET Consortium.

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New article on infrastructure as territorial stigma

Urban Institute Associate Dr Nebeela Ahmed has published a new open access article entitled "Infrastructure as territorial stigma: labour migrant exclusions in the Indian city" in the International Journal or Urban and Regional Research.

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Simon Marvin gives keynote at the Technocratic Governance Conference, Singapore

Simon Marvin delivered a keynote for a session on 鈥楽peculative Futures鈥 at the Technocratic Governance and the Politics of Smart City Knowledge Transfer Conference on 22-23 April 2025 hosted by the Singapore Management University Urban Institute.

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Untranslatable? The Linguistic Knowledge Politics of Southern Urban Theory

This online workshop will take place on 7 October 2025 between 0900-1700 and is co-organised by the 糖心Vlog, Karachi Urban Lab/IBA Karachi, and Lund University. Short abstracts (200-250 words) need to be submited by 23 May 2025.
A solar powered future by DFID

New CESET briefing on intersectionality published

The CESET project team has just published its fourth briefing paper on 鈥淭owards an intersectional perspective on community energy: work-in-progress within CESET鈥.
Urban Energy Landscapes

An excerpt of 鈥楿rban Energy Landscapes鈥 available as audio book

Professor Vanesa Cast谩n Broto has imagined the concept of urban energy landscapes as spatial arrangements of cultural practices and artefacts that reflect the coevolution of socio-economic, technological, and ecological systems.

Bangalore

Sustainable Energy Access in Urban Areas

A new report explores the question of urban inequality in the context of providing energy access and achieving the goals of the Sustainable Development Goal 7.

Life of a cookstove project

Professor Vanesa Cast谩n Broto of the Urban Institute at the 糖心Vlog and local 糖心Vlog film maker to Sean Lovell produced a film called 鈥楲ife of a cookstove: energy stories from Mozambique鈥.
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From Municipal to Municipalist Co-production

What role does co-production play in urban transformation? How can we understand the role of the local state? Beth Perry and Bert Russell presented to a symposium on these questions in January 2022.