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Sabina Andron examining the surfaces of street posters, the territories they create and the values they extract. Walking tour conducted as part of the Melbourne Public Humanities festival in November 2024. Photo Breanna Dunbar.
2nd September 2025

Walls speak. Are you listening? A research agenda for urban surfaces

Construction sites inhabited by internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Beiruit. Credit: Tamara Kaschek
14th August 2025

Epistemes of non-dominant inhabitation: a call for scholars thinking, reading, and writing about urban inhabitation differently

6th August 2025

Urbicide in Gaza: spatial violence, reconstruction, and resistance

28th July 2025

Just Urban Futures in Africa

25th July 2025

Grassroots infrastructures and urban social reproduction

Group Cities and Pandemic
16th July 2025

From crisis to extended upheavals: an Urban Studies Foundation-funded workshop on urbanization in (slow) emergency

USF Seminar Series Awards 2025
9th July 2025

Announcing the 2025 USF Seminar Series Awards

17th June 2025

Urban vacancy, occupation and commoning: Advancing a global comparative urbanism

Photograph of Seoul by Flickr user metrocentric
13th June 2025

Trustee Recruitment 2025

16th May 2025

New municipalism, democratic public ownership, and the politics of the common

: At a field trip to the neighbourhood of La Araña in Mexico City. Photo: Thomas van Laake
30th April 2025

Alternative circulations? Situating policymaking, decoloniality, and urban models within Latin American cities.

Figure 3: Promotional campaigns for associations selling irregular insurance around the country. Source: Website of the firm whose name has been anonymised. This ‘association-company’ is being investigated by the federal police operation called Seguro Fake and it is estimated that there are more than 100,000 clients in the country and a large number of accusations of non-payment of compensation.
23rd April 2025

The Business of Urban Security: Insurance and Illegal Protection in Violent Cities

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"The USF International Fellowship has contributed enormously to my career development. Providing the opportunity to work with a world-class Mentor and university also enabled me to win a further research grant to continue researching new cities and climate action in Africa."

Dr Prosper Issahaku Korah, International Fellowship

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