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Open drains in Devanahalli, Bengaluru, India.
27th June 2024

The urban politics of wastewater-based epidemiology: transforming the relationship between waste, health, and urban governance

Tramas Urbanas Design
7th June 2024

Memory as resistance and connection between popular settlements in Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires and Medellin

Tokyo Field Trip
2nd May 2024

Shrinking Domesticities: Towards a global research agenda on urban micro-living

Tokyo by chrisjongkind
29th April 2024

Knowledge Mobilisation Awards (2024)

Colour aerial photograph of Jodhphur buildings
9th April 2024

Writing Urban India: Boosting urban academic writing among early career scholars

Photographs from Early Career Workshop cum Training Program, CGS, Patna, India (Event #2)
20th March 2024

Recasting the City, Lives & Livelihoods, and Inequality in the post-COVID World (ReCLIC)

Bills stacking up on a staircase (Photograph by Anthony Luvera)
5th March 2024

Debt Trap Urbanism

Xuefei Ren, Philip Harrison and Hillary Birch at the Dahdaleh Institute, York University, May 24, 2023, during the event Addressing the Aftermath: The Governance of Urban Inequality During and After COVID-19. (Credit: Roger Keil)
14th February 2024

The city after COVID-19: Vulnerability and urban governance in Chicago, Toronto, and Johannesburg

Picture of a learning exchange between Colombian and South African community leaders, 2022 (source: Melanie Lombard)
26th January 2024

From social infrastructure to pandemic resilience?: Learning from and with low-income urban communities

Colour photograph of a street in Xindian with traffic, street signs, the tops of buildings, and new towers being constructed behind
6th December 2023

Locating and Practicing Land’s Social Values Through Collective Inquiries and Problem Solving

Colour photograph in the early evening of Newcastle City Library
16th November 2023

Towards resilient and liveable neighbourhoods post Covid-19: Evaluating neighbourhood quality in Sydney (AUS) and Newcastle upon Tyne (UK)

Colour photograph of a group of people standing outside of the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre building in Toronto, Canada.
9th November 2023

Peripheral centralities: Lost, past, present and future

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Professor Donald Houston, Senior Research Fellowship

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