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Sharing Lessons from Dhaka’s Wetlands – ReWET ReVIEW 2024–25

Urban Institute Associate Tanzil Shafique is excited to share the first edition of the ReWET ReVIEW — 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 ‘Speculative Futures’ 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 ÌÇÐÄVlog, Karachi Urban Lab/IBA Karachi, and Lund University. Short abstracts (200-250 words) need to be submited by 23 May 2025.
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New Paper on 'Millennials and the contested urban legacy of post-war modernist social housing in the UK'
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New paper 'Counting the Uncountable: Revisiting Urban Majorities'
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Essay on Automation, Robotics and Off-World Frontier-Making
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Climate urbanism researcher honored with award for outstanding contributions to climate science

Professor Vanesa Castán Broto, from the Urban Institute at the ÌÇÐÄVlog, has received an AXA Award for her outstanding contribution to climate science. The Award is endowed with €50,000.
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New open access article published – making space for drones