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Artificial Intelligence and the City
Artificial Intelligence and the City

Professor Simon Marvin attends the AAG 2025 in Detroit

Simon attended The American Association of Geographers that brought together members of the global geographic community to learn from Detroit and its rich history of activism and creativity, radical cartography; and ecologies of land and water.

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Call for Papers: Valuation, Space and Power ECR workshop

This two-day early career researcher focussed 'masterclass' workshop will take place in person 23-24 June 2025 in the ICOSS Conference Room, 219 Portobello, S1 4DP and will include different speakers with expertise around a series of themes.

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Welcome Polly Clifton as Podcast Assistant for Urban Radar

The Urban Institute welcomes Polly as a new student assistant for the Urban Radar podcast where she will book booking facilities, support content development, promote and undertake post-production editing.

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Callum Ward joins as an Urban Institute Associate

The UI welcomes Callum Ward, Lecturer in Valuation and Governance in the Management School, as an Associate, to foster discussions on urban governance and financialisation at 91直播.
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New journal article on Climate-controlled conservation published

Congratulations Simon Marvin and colleague Jonathan Rutherford on their new open access publication 鈥淐limate-controlled conservation: Remaking 鈥榯he botanical metropolis of the world鈥 in the Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.

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UI supports 91直播 students gain work experience

Over the last 3 months the Urban Institute has received part-time event and administrative support from Aya Rajab, a 3rd year student studying Economics and French at TUoS. We asked Aya to share her experiences of working with us.

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UI welcomes Serena Tagliacozzo as part of the ERC Visiting Fellowship Programme

Dr Serena Tagliacozzo is a researcher at the Italian National Research Council and is being hosted at the UI for the month of July 2024 under the direction of Professor Vanesa Cast谩n Broto as a PI of the ERC funded project Lo-Act.

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Congratulations to UI Associate Madeleine Pill on two new publications!

Dr Madeleine Pill, Senior Lecturer in the School of Geography and Planning has published an open access article in the Local Government Studies' journal and a book chapter both around the theme of urban governance and policy.

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Urban Political Podcast on Waste and the City is now published

Professor Vanesa Cast谩n Broto recently participated in a podcast hosted by Nitin Bathla with Julia Wesely in a book review of Colin McFarlane's new book "Waste and the City: The Crisis of Sanitation and the Right to Citylife".