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Philipp Horn and Melanie Lombard

Urban Institute Associates awarded the 2025 Association of European Schools of Planning Prize for Excellence in Teaching

Philipp Horn and Melanie Lombard have been awarded the Prize for their module "Urban Informality" and their related book "Urban Informality: An Introduction".

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Sharing Lessons from Dhakas Wetlands ReWET ReVIEW 202425

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.

Construction worker India
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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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Inception meeting of the New African Urban University project: Plugging into Networks within Networks
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CESET feedback on Mozambiques new draft off-grid regulation

The Government of Mozambique recently distributed a draft off grid regulation and requested comments by the private sector and other relevant stakeholders.
Professor Beth Perry

New Practical Action publication on Transdisciplinary Knowledge Co-production has now been published open access
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Black Urbanism Consultative Forum
Maya Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala, 2017

Making space for drones: the contested reregulation of airspace in Tanzania and Rwanda