What AI for Urban Governance

Location: Suffolk University 73 Tremont Street Boston, MA 02108 United States
Language: English

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The seminar series SS25.AI4UG “Coproducing a research agenda for responsible and transparent AI-capabilities for decision support in urban governance” , funded by the Urban Studies Foundation (USF-SSA-250604), aims at promoting an urgently needed transdisciplinary academic debate with academics and urban governance practitioners on the development of a coproduced research agenda for new responsible and transparent AI capabilities for accessible decision support for urban governance.
An agenda that responds to the needs of stakeholders, supported by hard evidence from urban sciences, and engaged with technologists and technology developers.

Keynote speakers include:
Christopher Zegras, Head of DUSP at MIT
Santiago Garcés, CIO, City of Boston

More information: https://www.beds4bug.info/events-ds/usf-ss25-ai4ug or contact Carlos Rufin (crufin@suffolk.edu).

 

 

 

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Our USF grant provided the platform for a major programme of research on family homelessness, debt and temporary accommodation in the UK, culminating in the 2025 co-authored book Debt Trap Nation: Family Homelessness in a Failing State. The grant generated more than £550,000 in subsequent research funding and grew new and now enduring partnerships with Shared Health Foundation, the Chartered Institute of Housing, Garden Court Chambers and the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Households in Temporary Accommodation. The research has had significant policy impact. It directly informed the UK Government's National Plan to End Homelessness (2025) and underpinned a proposed amendment to the Social Housing Bill currently before the House of Lords (June 2026), with the potential to change primary legislation affecting survivors of domestic abuse facing housing-related debt.

Navigating debt-trap urbanism in pandemic times: family homelessness and temporary accommodation in Greater Manchester, Pandemics and Cities

Urban Studies Foundation is a registered Scottish charity. Registration number SC039937.

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