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Image 1: The Nairobi Expressway adds a new layer in the city, but does not appeal to most drivers because of its tolls (photo by Zhengli Huang)
13th April 2026

Estranging infrastructure through writing and publishing

- Casas INCRA. Sul do Pará, década de 1980. Roberto Monte-Mór.
9th March 2026

Seeing the city: visual methodologies and the limits of the archive

USF welcomes three new Trustees!
28th January 2026

USF welcomes three new Trustees

Shanghai Credit: juliengomez via flickr
15th January 2026

Stratification of housing wealth among China’s urban households

Visitors entering Kayutangan heritage kampung. Credit: Nimas Maninggar
2nd January 2026

Selective inclusion in the Indonesian smart city Project: whose inclusion counts?

Illustration from ‘Threads and Seeds,’ zine prepared for the Reparative Urban Futures community forum, by Anna Carlson, shared with permission. Copyright - no reprint allowed.
22nd December 2025

Reparative urban futures: reconfiguring infrastructures and institutions towards liberation

Chennai Clean air campaign
16th December 2025

Ordinary ecologies of repair: youth, urbanity, and environmental change in South Asia

Encroachments on green spaces in some parts of Aboabo (Picture taken by Keron Achiaa in May 2025)
8th December 2025

Extending the dialogue of informality, e-waste, and nature-based solutions

YOTM team seminar in Pretoria
1st December 2025

Cartographies of care: mapping women’s everyday journeys and stories across downtown Pretoria

Photo from the film
24th November 2025

Democracy on the ground

Group Picture
17th November 2025

Utopian thinking: conceptualising a social housing policy with low-income communities in Colombo, Sri Lanka

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10th November 2025

Feminist and queer autonomous urban spaces under authoritarian neoliberalism

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"With an International Fellowship I was able to receive the mentorship, time and resources that I needed to help me sit in my ideas. As a result, I am now more confident that the ideas I endeavour to put forward, informed, predominantly, by African and Southern experiences and theories, have value beyond my immediate geographies."

Dr Wangui Kimari, International Fellowship

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