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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

Cover of ANPUR 40 years: new times, new challenges in a diverse Brazil / editors José Júlio Ferreira Lima; Raul da Silva Ventura Neto; translation Silvia Benchimol and Ewerton Branco -- United Kingdom, Glasgow: Urban Studies Foundation, 2024.
24th March 2025

ANPUR and USF launch book commemorating 40 years of reflections on urban and regional planning in Brazil

Seminar participants at the closing event in São Paulo. Photo: Author unknown, 15 March 2024.
6th March 2025

Expanding Feminist Urban Struggles

Bloemfontein spatial justice field trip. Participants on Naval Hill.
21st February 2025

Overlooked Cities: Thinking and doing global urban studies differently seminar series

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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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