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

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

In this guest post, Dr Komali Yenneti, Professor Debolina Kundu, Professor Poornima Shekhar Singh and Dr Rosa Teimouri discuss their research on the nexus between cities, inequalities and COVID-19, which was supported by a Seminar Series Awards grant from the USF. Cities are hubs of innovation, economic growth and employment opportunities. At the same time, cities […]

Bills stacking up on a staircase (Photograph by Anthony Luvera)

Debt Trap Urbanism

In this guest post, Professor Katherine Brickell and Dr. Mel Nowicki discuss their research on homelessness, temporary accommodation and debt, which was supported by a Pandemics and Cities grant from the USF. Tackling family homelessness is an urgent national challenge. Single women with dependent children represent over a third of households in Temporary Accommodation (TA) […]

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)

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

In this guest post, Profs Roger Keil, Xuefei Ren, and Philip Harrison discuss their research on the nexus between vulnerabilities, urban governance, and COVID-19, which was supported by a Pandemics and Cities grant from the USF. This project emerged from previous bi- and trilateral collaborations among the partners linked to the specific topic of this […]

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

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

In this guest post Dr Melanie Lombard, Dr Fiona Anciano and Dr Carlos Tobar write about their collaborative research on the role of commmunity-based organisations in local pandemic response. Their work was supported with a USF Pandemics and Cities grant. This project emerged during the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Members of the project team […]

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

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

In this guest post, Dr Mi Shih and Professor Kathe Newman describe their research on the democratisation of land development, which was supported with a Knowledge Mobilisation Awards grant from the USF. This project was born out a desire to democratize calculative techniques used by government land officials and private real estate developers to intensify […]