⏰ Reminder: Urban Urgencies funding call now open There’s still time to apply for the Urban Urgencies grant from the Urban Studies Foundation — supporting rapid, collaborative research on pressing urban challenges worldwide. 🗓️ Deadline: 23 March 2026 (23:59 UTC). 🔗 ow.ly/FUIn50XGtgz

🔔 USF Blog! Former #USFInternationalFellow Dr Nimas Maninggar shares insights from her research on selective inclusion in smart city programmes in Indonesia Read the guest post 👉 ow.ly/9MlX50XRauL

👉 New on the #USFBlog 🥂 In this guest blog, Naama Blatman, Sage Ponder & Suraya Scheba reflect on "Reparative Urban Futures," a #USF-supported workshop bringing scholars and community organisers together to rethink infrastructure, abolition, and repair from the ground up. 📖 ow.ly/tHov50XMIY2

📚 New publication! Former #USFInternationalFellow Deborah Fromm has a new article out: “The business of protection: Insuring urban violence risks in contemporary Brazil.” 🔗 Read more: doi.org/10.1080/0308... #UrbanStudies #Financialization #Brazil

🌱 New post! This week, Anant Maringanti, Nausheen Anwar & Aalok Khandekar introduce their #USFSeminarSeriesAwards project "Ordinary Ecologies of Repair", bringing youth across Karachi, Dhaka, Delhi, Chennai & Hyderabad together to rethink climate adaptation. 🔗 ow.ly/cUoq50XJo0h

📣 Call for Papers! Tensions in policy learning: Grounding learning practices in urban Southeast Asia 🗓️ 3–5 June 2026 📍 Universitas Islam Internasional Indonesia (UIII), Depok 📝 Apply by 16 January 2026 👉 ow.ly/KcN450XH1o3 Funded by the #USFSeminarSeriesAwards

📢 New USF Funding: Urban Urgencies The Urban Studies Foundation is launching a major new grant to support rapid-response collaborative research on the world’s most pressing urban challenges. 💷 Up to £35,000 🤝 Requires partnership with a non-academic organisation 🗓️ 23 Mar 2026 🔗 ow.ly/FUIn50XGtgz

🌍 New on the #USFBlog! Former #USFInternationalFellow Michael Osei Asibey reflects on his research into informal e-waste recycling and nature-based solutions for climate resilience, carried out under the mentorship of Patrick Brandful Cobbinah. 👉 ow.ly/cpNl50XExCZ #NatureBasedSolutions #Ewaste

🚨 New #USFSeminarSeries event! "Coproducing a research agenda for responsible and transparent AI-capabilities for decision support in urban governance" (SS25.AI4UG) 📅 “What AI for Urban Governance?” 📍 Suffolk University, Boston 🗓️ 8–10 Dec 2025 🔗 ow.ly/eO2a50XExYO

📢 Call for Papers now open! Seminar Two: Civic Academy for Africa’s Future (CiAAF), Cotonou, Benin 📅 16–20 February 2026 Part of the #USFSeminarSeriesAwards "Urban Politics and Negotiated Stateliness: Comparative perspectives across Africa and Eastern Europe" 🔎 CFP (EN/FR): ow.ly/AxLy50XBGig

📘 New Publication! We’re delighted to share "African Urban Creativity: Exploring Creative Economies Within and Beyond Cities" — a new edited volume by Lauren England and Estrella Sendra, emerging from a #USFSeminarSeriesAwards. 📖 ow.ly/xGUq50XAJXQ 🔗 Project: ow.ly/qxsp50XAJXP

✨ USF Blog! How do young people’s everyday movements shape urban life across Africa & Asia? In a USF-funded project, Dr Min Tang, Anuj Daga & Dr Ying Cheng explore Cartographies of Care—a Pretoria-based workshop mapping women’s journeys, stories & practices of care. 👉 ow.ly/BSA750Xzblm

📢 Next week in Melbourne! On 3–4 Dec. 2025: First workshop of the #USFSeminarSeriesAwards “Walls speak. Are you listening? A research agenda for urban surfaces” The event features panels, roundtables, site-based work, and concludes with a public event: Urban Visual Dialogues 3. 👉 ow.ly/oZL850Xy6QK

🎥 New on the USF Blog! Dr Telma Hoyler shares insights from her USF-funded project "Democracy on the Ground", where she uses ethnographic filmmaking to co-create "Território" (Territory), available on the USF web. 🔗 Read the full post: ow.ly/gktn50Xt3xm #UrbanStudies #ParticipatoryResearch

📚 New publication now available in Spanish! "Comunidad urbana – Conversaciones entre Berlín y Bogotá" by Talja Blokland and Sandra Pulido-Chaparro (former #USFInternationalFellow) offers an exploration of what “community” means in today’s global urban contexts. 🔗 Learn more: ow.ly/sQXw50Xui6z

📣 All week! Join us in Sergipe (Br) for a series of events — part of the #USF-funded project "Urban geographies of carcerality: from Latin America to the Middle East" 🗓️ Panels, workshops, film screenings, a city tour & meetings with activists 🌎 In Portuguese & English 🔗 ow.ly/Xtjs50XtHaO

🌟 USF Blog! How can utopian thinking transform urban policy? Dr Asha L. Abeyasekera shares insights from her #USF_KMA funded project "Home as Hope", where 95 residents of Colombo co-created a powerful Community Manifesto on Housing & Urban Planning. 📝 Read the full story: ow.ly/lC9n50XrGIu

📢 Upcoming #USFSeminarSeriesAwards Event Join the second roundtable of "Phoenix-nomenon of Kharkiv", exploring the deurbanisation and relocation of the Kharkiv School of Architecture and the future revival of the city. 🗓️ 19 Nov | 10:00–14:00 (GMT) 🔗 Info: ow.ly/UIZH50XrsE9 #UrbanStudies #Ukraine

📢 This week on the USF Blog! Dr Cesare Di Feliciantonio, Magdalena Moreno & Dr Gabriella Palermo introduce their #USFSeminarSeriesAwards grant on feminist & queer autonomous urban spaces under authoritarian neoliberalism. 🔗 ow.ly/S7FV50XolP7 #UrbanStudies #FeministGeographies #QueerUrbanism

🔔 Hybrid Roundtable! “Tensions in Policy Learning: Grounding Learning Practices in Urban Southeast Asia”, supported by #USF The discussion will feature leading urban scholars: Tim Bunnell, Sulfikar Amir, and Daniel Goh. 📅 20 Nov | 4–5:30 PM (GMT+8) 📍 ARI–NUS + Online 🔗 ow.ly/b5ln50XnJMn

🌏 New on the USF Blog! Dr Napong Tao Rugkhapan, Dr Tan Wenn Er & Dr Priza Marendraputra explore the politics of urban policy learning in Southeast Asia — part of their #USFSeminarSeriesAwards project. 🔗 Read more: ow.ly/2z0X50XkY2z #UrbanStudies #PolicyMobilities #AsianUrbanism

📢 Exciting news! The Urban Studies Foundation welcomes a new cohort of International Fellows — scholars from Brazil, Ghana, India, Indonesia & South Africa advancing urban research. 🔗 ow.ly/ae8Z50XjrOu #UrbanStudies #USFInternationalFellowships #GlobalUrbanism

🏙️ USF Blog! This week, Dr Georgiana Varna, Dr Michael Crilly & Dr Karina Landman share insights from their project “Co-producing alternative urban futures through experimental urbanism”, funded by a #USFSeminarSeriesAwards grant. 🔗 Read more: ow.ly/3XRZ50Xi74C #UrbanStudies #ExperimentalUrbanism

🌍 Between the Lines of Everyday Public Spaces Join an immersive event exploring memory, displacement & belonging in urban life — from Chennai to Istanbul. 👉 Led by Dr Nian Paul, a 2025 #USFInternationalFellow. 📅 6–7 Nov 2025 📍 UCL Bartlett School of Architecture, London 🔗 ow.ly/i6lc50XgAnF

🚨 New blog post! Dr Basil Farraj, Ms Mai Al-Battat and Dr Hashem Abushama introduce the #USFSeminarSeriesAwards "Urban Geographies of Carcerality: From Latin America to the Middle East", exploring how carceral logics shape cities, institutions, and everyday life. 🔗 Read more: ow.ly/gseL50Xeakx

💻 Webinar – Responsible and Transparent AI 📅 24 Oct 2025 | 🕑 14:00 (GMT+1) | 🌐 Online REGISTER ➡️ ow.ly/A40c50XcQOU Join the launch of SS25.AI4UG, a seminar funded by #USFSeminarSeriesAwards exploring how to coproduce responsible, transparent AI for urban governance.

🏙️ Workshop "Commodification in Contemporary Urbanization: Global Dynamics and Local Resistances" 📍 Lima, Peru | 15–17 Oct 2025 | 🇬🇧🇪🇸 English–Spanish hybrid workshop 👉 ow.ly/gFS950XaPW0 Supported by a #USFSeminarSeriesAwards grant. #UrbanStudies #HousingCrisis #LandCommodification

🕊️ New on the Blog: Cities at War — a 16-week online lecture series funded by a #USFSeminarSeriesAwards grant, begins 15 Oct 2025. The series explores how wars destroy cities, knowledge & communities—and how scholars rebuild them. 🔗 Read more: https://ow.ly/39tc50Xaj4Y#USFSeminarSeriesAwards#CitiesAtWar #UrbanStudies

🏡 “Families do not fall into this trap — they are pulled into it.” On #WorldHomelessDay, we are delighted to announce the publication of "Debt Trap Nation" by Prof Katherine Brickell and Dr Mel Nowicki, supported by a #USFPandemics&Cities grant. 🔗 https://ow.ly/Wf8m50X9xlP#WorldHomelessDay#USFPandemics

🏙️ Phoenix-Nomenon of Kharkiv Join us to discuss deurbanisation, survival & prospects of renewal. Roundtable One of the #USFSeminarSeries 📅 22 Oct 2025, 10:00 (GMT+1) 📍 Hybrid | Newcastle Univ + Online 🔗 Read more and register: https://ow.ly/1yfG50X6NeP#USFSeminarSeries

🏙️ How can we use AI responsibly in urban governance? In this guest blog, Dr Nuno Pinto introduces a new #USFSeminarSeries on AI and urban governance. 📅 Launch webinar: 24 Oct, 14:00 BST 👉 Read more and register: ow.ly/mmpO50X2S8t #UrbanAI #UrbanStudies #AI

🌍 Exciting opportunity! Register for "Cities at War" – Online Lecture Series 🔸 By scholars from war-torn cities 📅 Fully online | Free & open to all 👉 ow.ly/6eiM50X2pZz Organised by #USF, BeirutUrbanLab, DKVD, Rojava Univ, Off Univ, Humboldt Uni Berlin #CitiesAtWar #UrbanStudies #ConflictCities

🔔 Upcoming online talk (Cities Agenda – Sciences Po) 📅 2 Oct 2025 | 17:00–18:30 (GMT+2) 🎙️ Join #USFInternationalFellow Ana Beraldo – Managing ordinary life: (Im)predictability, Violence & Solidarity in Latin American Urban Margins 💬 Discussant: Patrick Le Galès 👉 Register: ow.ly/F5vo50X10H9

Congratulations 🥳 to @urbanstudiesfoundation.org Postdoctoral Research Fellow Dr Matina Kapsali for receiving Research Staff of the Year award! 👏 👏 👏 @officialuom.bsky.social @matinakapsali.bsky.social

🚌 New on the USF Blog In “Bustling (Im)Mobility: Socio-spatial Negotiations in Delhi's Bus Terminals”, #USFInternationalFellow Dr Arundhathi examines how Delhi’s bus users navigate unreliable infrastructures. 📍 Read the full post: ow.ly/P8ZV50WZ7xq

📢 New publication by former USF International Fellow Harsh Mittal “Topological spatialities of policy mobility: the varied power plays governing Indian smart urbanism in a quieter register” Published in Space and Polity 🔗 ow.ly/kyLr50WXfBi #UrbanStudies #PolicyMobility #SmartUrbanism #India

🔔New in the #USFBlog! “Urban politics and negotiated stateness: comparative perspectives across Africa and Eastern Europe” 👉 ow.ly/2P6o50WVrW2 🌍Check the 1st event of the Series! "Decentring Urban Politics: Thinking with & beyond Eastern Europe and Africa" 📅 15–16 Sept 2025 🔗 ow.ly/5Q8b50WVrW0

🚨 Join us in Newcastle for the first symposium of the USF Seminar Series: Co-Producing Alternative Urban Futures through Experimental Urbanism 📅 15–16 Sept 2025 📍 High Bridge Works Gallery & The Farrell Centre 🔗 Register: ow.ly/FmmS50WVpng

🚀 Inauguration Workshop of the #USFSeminarSeries on "Mapping Opportunities in Post-Industrial Cities." Read more about the events: 👉 ow.ly/RJmm50WUQ1z Register for the first event: "How can post-industrial cities be reimagined?" 👉 ow.ly/gwbo50WUQ1y 📅 30 Sept 2025 | 🕙 10:00–11:30 (UK time)

📝 New on the USF blog: Dr Dammert-Guardia, Prof Wong, Dr Sarmiento & Dr Pineda-Zumarán discuss the upcoming events of their #SeminarSeriesAward on speculative real estate dynamics, land commodification & resistance strategies across Peru, the UK & the US. 👉 ow.ly/2BLr50WTbec

📝 New on the USF blog + 📢 Call for participants “Walls speak. Are you listening? A research agenda for urban surfaces” Dr Sabina Andron, Dr Konstantinos Avramidis & Tom Ward introduce the #USFSeminarSeries and the Urban Surfaces Research Network (USRN). 👉 ow.ly/j8Pf50WPzwI

📢 Call for submissions! 📢 Epistemes of non-dominant inhabitation: a call for scholars thinking, reading, and writing about urban inhabitation differently. Programme includes additional support for ECR/URS participation. Read more and apply here: www.urbanstudiesfoundation.org/2025/08/14/e...

🚨 New Publication “The Rentier Economy of Growth Infrastructures: Value Appropriation without Adequate Accumulation in India” By Preeti Sampat, former #USFInternationalFellow ✨ 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/anti... 📄 Published in Antipode #UrbanStudies #Infrastructure #RentierEconomy #India #USF

📢Join us for a special event, where we explore the intersections of aesthetics, ecology, and sensory urban politics in contemporary China—through the work of the late C. P. Pow. 📅 September 12th, 16:00-17:30 (GMT+7). Online. Information and registration: 👉 ow.ly/m7qV50WB0kc #UrbanStudies #China

🚨 In this guest post, Dr. Himmat Zoubi & Dr. Areen Hawari (Mada al-Carmel) reflect on the destruction of Gaza through the lens of urbicide. Their #USFSeminarSeries will host hybrid events from Jan–June. 🗓️ Stay tuned for ways to engage. 🔗 Read more: ow.ly/I7Ka50WAX5G #UrbanStudies #Gaza #Urbicide

So happy this is out!! 👩🏽‍🍳📚🌍✍🏾🍜 Over the past 6 months, I’ve been working with 6 inspiring women of Heart&Parcel to co-create CuiZine—an online zine exploring “The social lives of food” through a series of collaborative workshops. 🧵 Read and share widely! #CuiZine #foodstories #zinemaking

🌱 Can nature-based solutions help tackle climate change and support informal livelihoods? In Kumasi, Ghana, #USFInternationalFellow Michael Osei Asibey & Patrick Cobbinah explore how nature-based solutions can improve e-waste management in informal settings. 🔗 Read more: ow.ly/NPbM50WyU6A

🔔 How are grassroots infrastructures reshaping cities from below? In this guest post, #USFPostdoctoralFellows @matinakapsali.bsky.social and Nina Ebner reflect on their workshop “Grassroots Infrastructures and Urban Social Reproduction” 📖 Read more: ow.ly/Wbzs50Wve57 #UrbanStudies #Infrastructure

🏙️ In The Aesthetics of Belonging, former #USFInternationalFellow Dr Claudia Gastrow explores how top-down urban “reconstruction” displaced communities in Luanda, and how aesthetic dissent reframed informal settlements as sites of belonging. 📘 ow.ly/JEoh50WsZfZ #UrbanStudies #Luanda #ColonialLegacies

🧪 What happens after the crisis? In our latest guest blog, Carolyn Prouse & Mohammed Rafi Arefin reflect on the “From Crisis to Extended Upheavals” workshop, where #USFPandemicsAndCities grantees explored the lasting impacts of COVID-19 on urban life. 🔗 Read more: ow.ly/GjOA50WqOkj