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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

C.P. Pow: selected essays
15th April 2025

C.P. Pow: selected essays

Dispatches from the Threshold
8th April 2025

Dispatches from the Threshold: tenant power in times of crisis

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"It is not an overstatement to say that the USF Fellowship was invaluable in relation to both my career development and the advancement of my research around urban politics. The USF Fellowship provided me with an opportunity to be part a diverse, open and stimulating academic milieu; to have the space and time to focus on research, and to pave the way for future academic research development."

Dr Lazaros Karaliotas, Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

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