Flyer with USF logo for the event "Urbicide in Palestinian Cities After the Nakba: Time, Rupture, and Remaking the Urban Space " and the text "The seminar will focus on the concept of urbicide in the Palestinian context, combining approaches from sociology, history, and architecture that put colonial planning at the centre of the analysis. Presentations: Destruction and the Concept of Time within the Palestinian Urban Context “Who Lives There Down Under the Rubble?” A Visit to the city of al-Lydd Before the Upheaval Deconstructing Emerging Urbanity: Redrawing the Political Arena in Haifa After 1948. Moderator: Dr Orwa Switat, a Postdoctoral Researcher at Brown University. 26th March 2026 17:00 - 19:00 (GMT+2) Online" on a grey background.

Flyer with USF logo for the event "Urbicide in Palestinian Cities After the Nakba: Time, Rupture, and Remaking the Urban Space " and the text "The seminar will focus on the concept of urbicide in the Palestinian context, combining approaches from sociology, history, and architecture that put colonial planning at the centre of the analysis. Presentations: Destruction and the Concept of Time within the Palestinian Urban Context “Who Lives There Down Under the Rubble?” A Visit to the city of al-Lydd Before the Upheaval Deconstructing Emerging Urbanity: Redrawing the Political Arena in Haifa After 1948. Moderator: Dr Orwa Switat, a Postdoctoral Researcher at Brown University. 26th March 2026 17:00 - 19:00 (GMT+2) Online" on a grey background.

📢 Upcoming Seminar: Urbicide in Palestinian Cities After the Nakba

🗓️ 26 March 2026 | 17:00 – 19:00 (GMT+2)
📍 Location: Zoom
🗣️ Language: Arabic-English

Part of the #USFSeminarSeriesAwards project: "Urbicide in Gaza: spatial violence, reconstruction, and resistance."

🔗 More info: ow.ly/YQcQ50YvEAV

Flyer with USF logo for the Event "Urbicide from the Site of Palestinian Refugee Camps " and the text "The seminar will focus on the concept of urbicide in the Palestinian context, combining approaches from sociology, history, and architecture that put colonial planning at the centre of the analysis. Presentations: The Targeting of Palestinian Refugee Camps and Challenges of Reconstruction. Concrete Conflict in Spatialization: The Refugee Camps in the Gaza Strip Constructing Collective Life Under Spatial Destruction. Moderator: Ayham Dalal, architect and urban planner at the German University in Cairo." on a light blue background.

Flyer with USF logo for the Event "Urbicide from the Site of Palestinian Refugee Camps " and the text "The seminar will focus on the concept of urbicide in the Palestinian context, combining approaches from sociology, history, and architecture that put colonial planning at the centre of the analysis. Presentations: The Targeting of Palestinian Refugee Camps and Challenges of Reconstruction. Concrete Conflict in Spatialization: The Refugee Camps in the Gaza Strip Constructing Collective Life Under Spatial Destruction. Moderator: Ayham Dalal, architect and urban planner at the German University in Cairo." on a light blue background.

🔔 Register Now! "Urbicide from the Site of Palestinian Refugee Camps"

Presentations by Khaldun Bshara, Fatina Abreek-Zubiedat, and Sandi Hilal. Moderated by Ayham Dalal.

🗓️ 12/2 17:00 (GMT+2) Online Arabic-English

Part of the #USFSeminarSeriesAwards "Urbicide in Gaza."

🔗 ow.ly/6JNT50YcMaI

Flyer with USF logo for the event "Making connections: Learning from Elsewhere, Theorising from Africa" Seminar Two: Civic Academy for Africa’s Future (CiAAF), Benin, Cotonou 16 - 20 February 2026." and the text "The workshop in Benin will focus on how tracing connections from African contexts can help to build comparative insights on urban developments there, and how this methodology might be used to expand the conversation between scholars in Africa and Eastern Europe. " on a gray backround

Flyer with USF logo for the event "Making connections: Learning from Elsewhere, Theorising from Africa" Seminar Two: Civic Academy for Africa’s Future (CiAAF), Benin, Cotonou 16 - 20 February 2026." and the text "The workshop in Benin will focus on how tracing connections from African contexts can help to build comparative insights on urban developments there, and how this methodology might be used to expand the conversation between scholars in Africa and Eastern Europe. " on a gray backround

🌍 Next week in Benin!
Making connections: Learning from Elsewhere, Theorising from Africa
Seminar Two – CiAAF, Cotonou | 16–20 Feb 2026
Supported by #USFSeminarSeriesAwards
🔗 ow.ly/Bwjl50XVPBW
#UrbanStudies #TheorisingFromAfrica #DecentringKnowledge #ComparativeUrbanism

Flyer with USF logo for the Special Issue "Cultural policy and urban cultural infrastructure beyond the creative city" by Abigail Gilmore, Lauren England, Thuy Tran, Claire Burnill-Maier. And the cover of the journal and the text "“The collection of research articles from international scholars provides empirical consideration and theoretical reflection on the ‘infrastructural turn’, challenging ideal-types of urban development that target cultural consumption and production for value extraction. Together they represent an attempt to move beyond the dominant, but often vague and contradictory, ‘creative city’ narratives informing cultural policy, and reframe discussions on the divergent contexts and practices of statecraft and urban entrepreneurialism across global North and South.”

Flyer with USF logo for the Special Issue "Cultural policy and urban cultural infrastructure beyond the creative city" by Abigail Gilmore, Lauren England, Thuy Tran, Claire Burnill-Maier. And the cover of the journal and the text "“The collection of research articles from international scholars provides empirical consideration and theoretical reflection on the ‘infrastructural turn’, challenging ideal-types of urban development that target cultural consumption and production for value extraction. Together they represent an attempt to move beyond the dominant, but often vague and contradictory, ‘creative city’ narratives informing cultural policy, and reframe discussions on the divergent contexts and practices of statecraft and urban entrepreneurialism across global North and South.”

📚 Out now in City, Culture and Society!

Following the #USFSeminarSeriesAwards "European Creative Cities and COVID-19" and the "Beyond the Creative City" project.
Edited by Abigail Gilmore, Claire Burnill-Maier, Lauren England, and Thuy Tran.

🔗 ow.ly/k5sZ50Y97pC
👉 ow.ly/wE1050Y97pB

Flyer with USF logo for the Call for constributions "Urban Surface 2026: in person workshops" and the text "We are inviting expressions of interest to attend our two-day workshops in Nicosia, Cyprus and Uppsala, Sweden. These are part of an Urban Studies Foundation Seminar Series Award for the project “Walls speak. Are you listening? A research agenda for urban surfaces”. The workshops comprise presentations, co-writing and ideating sessions, and/ or site visits, and they are designed as small-scale, deep study sessions for approximately 20 participants. Deadline: February 20th, 2026 Nicosia, Cyprus and Uppsala, Sweden" on a picture of a graphitti by the organizers

Flyer with USF logo for the Call for constributions "Urban Surface 2026: in person workshops" and the text "We are inviting expressions of interest to attend our two-day workshops in Nicosia, Cyprus and Uppsala, Sweden. These are part of an Urban Studies Foundation Seminar Series Award for the project “Walls speak. Are you listening? A research agenda for urban surfaces”. The workshops comprise presentations, co-writing and ideating sessions, and/ or site visits, and they are designed as small-scale, deep study sessions for approximately 20 participants. Deadline: February 20th, 2026 Nicosia, Cyprus and Uppsala, Sweden" on a picture of a graphitti by the organizers

📢 Call for Participation!

#USFSeminarSeriesAwards "Walls speak—are you listening?" Join the Urban Surfaces Research Network for in-person workshops in Nicosia (May) and Uppsala (Aug).

Explore urban surfaces through theory, method, and practice.

🗓️ Deadline: 20 Feb 2026
👉 ow.ly/g2kt50Y7nXH

Flyer with USF logo for the event "The Epistemic Tangles of Urban Inhabitation by Professor Beth Perry " with the text "In this lecture Professor Beth Perry will excavate foundational ideas, lexicons and practices of a new research field around ‘urban epistemics’, before providing some specific examples on how this produces particular “epistemic tangles” of urban inhabitation which shape how people come to know the city, how they are subjected to different processes of epistemic exclusion and knowledge politics; and what this means for researchers in different institutions, in the context of an equally exclusionary knowledge production system. This event is a part of the project ‘Epistemes of Non-Dominant Inhabitation: a seminar series for early-career and under-represented scholars to decenter urban knowledge’." on a light blue background.

Flyer with USF logo for the event "The Epistemic Tangles of Urban Inhabitation by Professor Beth Perry " with the text "In this lecture Professor Beth Perry will excavate foundational ideas, lexicons and practices of a new research field around ‘urban epistemics’, before providing some specific examples on how this produces particular “epistemic tangles” of urban inhabitation which shape how people come to know the city, how they are subjected to different processes of epistemic exclusion and knowledge politics; and what this means for researchers in different institutions, in the context of an equally exclusionary knowledge production system. This event is a part of the project ‘Epistemes of Non-Dominant Inhabitation: a seminar series for early-career and under-represented scholars to decenter urban knowledge’." on a light blue background.

📢 Online lecture | 16 Jan 2026, 11:30 (GMT)

Professor Beth Perry explores urban epistemics and the “epistemic tangles” shaping how cities are known, governed, and contested

Part of the #USFSeminarSeriesAwards "Epistemes of Non-Dominant Inhabitation."

👉 ow.ly/YbGj50XVfiC

Flyer for the event "Co-producing Alternative Urban Futures through Experimental Urbanism 15 January 2026 to 16 January 2026 08:00 - 20:00 (GMT+1) Location: Vrije Universiteit Brussels, USquare campus, 229 Avenue de la Couronne, 1050 Brussels Language: English" and the text "Organisers: Dr Georgiana Varna, Dr Michael Crilly and Dr Karina Landman The event will consist of a dynamic exchange of ideas to solve complex ‘wicked problems’ and include a combination of talks from academics and practitioners involved in experimental urban projects together with workshops, site visits, and social events."

Flyer for the event "Co-producing Alternative Urban Futures through Experimental Urbanism 15 January 2026 to 16 January 2026 08:00 - 20:00 (GMT+1) Location: Vrije Universiteit Brussels, USquare campus, 229 Avenue de la Couronne, 1050 Brussels Language: English" and the text "Organisers: Dr Georgiana Varna, Dr Michael Crilly and Dr Karina Landman The event will consist of a dynamic exchange of ideas to solve complex ‘wicked problems’ and include a combination of talks from academics and practitioners involved in experimental urban projects together with workshops, site visits, and social events."

📍 Next week in Brussels!

🌆 Co-producing Alternative Urban Futures through Experimental Urbanism (
2nd Seminar of the #USFSeminarSeriesAwards)
🗓️ 15–16 January 2026

👉 More info and registration: ow.ly/qPoK50XTbYm

Flyer with USF Logo for the USF Blog "Ordinary ecologies of repair: youth, urbanity, and environmental change in South Asia" on a picture of a Community space created by neighborhood youth on the edge of a historic lake now covered in water hyacinth - an invasive water plant -Hyderabad Credit: Hyderabad Urban Lab and the quote "“Across South Asia, the climate crisis is not a future condition. It structures the present. Young people are already negotiating heat, polluted air, saline intrusion, and recurring floods. Yet policy discourse continues to frame them only as vulnerable dependents or as a symbolic “future generation” who will someday fix the world.”

Flyer with USF Logo for the USF Blog "Ordinary ecologies of repair: youth, urbanity, and environmental change in South Asia" on a picture of a Community space created by neighborhood youth on the edge of a historic lake now covered in water hyacinth - an invasive water plant -Hyderabad Credit: Hyderabad Urban Lab and the quote "“Across South Asia, the climate crisis is not a future condition. It structures the present. Young people are already negotiating heat, polluted air, saline intrusion, and recurring floods. Yet policy discourse continues to frame them only as vulnerable dependents or as a symbolic “future generation” who will someday fix the world.”

🌱 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

Flyer with USF logo for the Call for papers "Tensions in policy learning: grounding learning practices in urban Southeast Asia" and the text "To understand how these tensions manifest in practice requires examining how different Southeast Asian cities adapt foreign frameworks to local socio-political conditions. Through comparative case studies, the Seminar Series invites participants to assess how cities balance global best practices with domestic pressures, cultural factors, and institutional constraints. Whether in urban design, economic strategies, technological deployment, or sustainability measures, policy transfer outcomes hinge largely on a delicate process of negotiation— one that ultimately shapes how “learning from abroad” is realised and resisted in the region." Deadline: January 16th, 2026 Universitas Islam Internasional Indonesia (UIII) in Depok, Indonesia. On a grey backround"

Flyer with USF logo for the Call for papers "Tensions in policy learning: grounding learning practices in urban Southeast Asia" and the text "To understand how these tensions manifest in practice requires examining how different Southeast Asian cities adapt foreign frameworks to local socio-political conditions. Through comparative case studies, the Seminar Series invites participants to assess how cities balance global best practices with domestic pressures, cultural factors, and institutional constraints. Whether in urban design, economic strategies, technological deployment, or sustainability measures, policy transfer outcomes hinge largely on a delicate process of negotiation— one that ultimately shapes how “learning from abroad” is realised and resisted in the region." Deadline: January 16th, 2026 Universitas Islam Internasional Indonesia (UIII) in Depok, Indonesia. On a grey backround"

📣 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

Flyer with USF logo for the event "Making connections: Learning from Elsewhere, Theorising from Africa" and the text "The workshop in Benin will focus on how tracing connections from African contexts can help to build comparative insights on urban developments there, and how this methodology might be used to expand the conversation between scholars in Africa and Eastern Europe. Deadline: December 31st, 2025 Civic Academy for Africa’s Future (CiAAF), Benin, Cotonou" or a picture taken by the Organizers.

Flyer with USF logo for the event "Making connections: Learning from Elsewhere, Theorising from Africa" and the text "The workshop in Benin will focus on how tracing connections from African contexts can help to build comparative insights on urban developments there, and how this methodology might be used to expand the conversation between scholars in Africa and Eastern Europe. Deadline: December 31st, 2025 Civic Academy for Africa’s Future (CiAAF), Benin, Cotonou" or a picture taken by the Organizers.

📢 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

USF flyer for the book "African Urban Creativity Exploring Creative Economies Within and Beyond Cities" Edited By Lauren England, Estrella Sendra and the quote "The edited collection, African Urban Creativity: Exploring Creative Economies Within and Beyond the Cities, seeks to contribute to understanding creative economies in Africa, specifically the urban dynamics of creativity and the urbanisation of the creative economy. In doing so, it also acknowledges the role of the periphery and rural settings within their inputs and dialogic relation to the city."

USF flyer for the book "African Urban Creativity Exploring Creative Economies Within and Beyond Cities" Edited By Lauren England, Estrella Sendra and the quote "The edited collection, African Urban Creativity: Exploring Creative Economies Within and Beyond the Cities, seeks to contribute to understanding creative economies in Africa, specifically the urban dynamics of creativity and the urbanisation of the creative economy. In doing so, it also acknowledges the role of the periphery and rural settings within their inputs and dialogic relation to the city."

📘 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

Flyer with USF logo for the event "Urban Visual Dialogues 3: Graffiti, Posters, and Visual Governance in the City " on a picture of Weathered green wooden panels with peeling paint and faded blue tiles, evoking urban decay and visual texture by USRN team. Also, it includes the text: 4 December 2025 (GMT+11) G26 – Biosciences 1 Building, The University of Melbourne, Parkville In Person On 3–4 December 2025, the first workshop of “Walls speak. Are you listening? A research agenda for urban surfaces” brings together 20 scholars, practitioners, and policymakers to explore how urban surfaces shape communication, governance, and political contestation. Hosted at UniMelb, the event features panels, roundtables, site-based work, and concludes with a public event: Urban Visual Dialogues 3

Flyer with USF logo for the event "Urban Visual Dialogues 3: Graffiti, Posters, and Visual Governance in the City " on a picture of Weathered green wooden panels with peeling paint and faded blue tiles, evoking urban decay and visual texture by USRN team. Also, it includes the text: 4 December 2025 (GMT+11) G26 – Biosciences 1 Building, The University of Melbourne, Parkville In Person On 3–4 December 2025, the first workshop of “Walls speak. Are you listening? A research agenda for urban surfaces” brings together 20 scholars, practitioners, and policymakers to explore how urban surfaces shape communication, governance, and political contestation. Hosted at UniMelb, the event features panels, roundtables, site-based work, and concludes with a public event: Urban Visual Dialogues 3

📢 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

Flyer with USF logo and a picture of Kharkiv School of Architecture for the event "Second Roundtable: PHOENIX-NOMENON OF KHARKIV" USF Seminar Series Awards With the text "This series of roundtables aims is to study the process of deurbanisation of Kharkiv (second biggest city in the north-east of Ukraine, 1,5 million population) in order to understand the current processes and prospects of revival (Phoenix-nomenon) of the multidimensional significance of the city of Kharkiv, namely, what can be the core that can restore the former scientific, academic, cultural, industrial significance of the city"

Flyer with USF logo and a picture of Kharkiv School of Architecture for the event "Second Roundtable: PHOENIX-NOMENON OF KHARKIV" USF Seminar Series Awards With the text "This series of roundtables aims is to study the process of deurbanisation of Kharkiv (second biggest city in the north-east of Ukraine, 1,5 million population) in order to understand the current processes and prospects of revival (Phoenix-nomenon) of the multidimensional significance of the city of Kharkiv, namely, what can be the core that can restore the former scientific, academic, cultural, industrial significance of the city"

📢 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

USF blog flyer for the series "Feminist and queer autonomous urban spaces under authoritarian neoliberalism" on a picture by Magdalena Moreno Wall covered with colorful protest posters and flyers advocating feminist and queer autonomous urban spaces, with the quote "“The aim of the project is to create an international network of activist(s and) scholars working in/with feminist and queer autonomous urban spaces, to share knowledge and practices to navigate the increasing violence of the present, imagine new ‘world-making’ practices (Muñoz 2009) and support each other.”

USF blog flyer for the series "Feminist and queer autonomous urban spaces under authoritarian neoliberalism" on a picture by Magdalena Moreno Wall covered with colorful protest posters and flyers advocating feminist and queer autonomous urban spaces, with the quote "“The aim of the project is to create an international network of activist(s and) scholars working in/with feminist and queer autonomous urban spaces, to share knowledge and practices to navigate the increasing violence of the present, imagine new ‘world-making’ practices (Muñoz 2009) and support each other.”

📢 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

Flyer with USF logo for the Blog "Tension in policy learning" on a picture of Curved wooden walkway over a river with lush greenery and urban buildings under construction in the background in Southeast Asia, by the Authors. And the quote "“In city halls across Southeast Asia, “learning from abroad” has become standard practice. Cue the now-ubiquitous “creative districts,” “smart cities,” and “green urbanism” playbooks – global templates imported off the shelf and quickly rebadged as prestige projects, often more aligned with elite imaginaries than everyday local needs.”

Flyer with USF logo for the Blog "Tension in policy learning" on a picture of Curved wooden walkway over a river with lush greenery and urban buildings under construction in the background in Southeast Asia, by the Authors. And the quote "“In city halls across Southeast Asia, “learning from abroad” has become standard practice. Cue the now-ubiquitous “creative districts,” “smart cities,” and “green urbanism” playbooks – global templates imported off the shelf and quickly rebadged as prestige projects, often more aligned with elite imaginaries than everyday local needs.”

🌏 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

Flyer with the USF logo for the USF blog post on a picture by Callum Leslie “We collectively explored and questioned the point, purpose and characteristics of “experimental urbanism”. While there were many ways to classify and organise the different types of experimental projects from scale, location, design or urban form, there were clear procedural steps that many of the presenters followed in their projects from concept / inception to scoping / benchmarking and learning from similar projects prior to delivery and post competition evaluation.”

Flyer with the USF logo for the USF blog post on a picture by Callum Leslie “We collectively explored and questioned the point, purpose and characteristics of “experimental urbanism”. While there were many ways to classify and organise the different types of experimental projects from scale, location, design or urban form, there were clear procedural steps that many of the presenters followed in their projects from concept / inception to scoping / benchmarking and learning from similar projects prior to delivery and post competition evaluation.”

🏙️ 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

Flyer for USF Blog with Logo for the Seminar "Geographies of Carcerality: From Latin America to the Middle East" on a Photo: Palestine, by Mai Al-Battat, and the quote "“By taking ‘carcerality’ in the city as its vantage point, the series is concerned with clarifying how global forces of capitalist accumulation, (post)colonial violence, and patriarchy show up in urban spaces and extend to spaces of confinement. It will address the circuits and geographies structuring the circulation and mobility of carceral practices across both regions, and the ways in which these practices relate to each other.”

Flyer for USF Blog with Logo for the Seminar "Geographies of Carcerality: From Latin America to the Middle East" on a Photo: Palestine, by Mai Al-Battat, and the quote "“By taking ‘carcerality’ in the city as its vantage point, the series is concerned with clarifying how global forces of capitalist accumulation, (post)colonial violence, and patriarchy show up in urban spaces and extend to spaces of confinement. It will address the circuits and geographies structuring the circulation and mobility of carceral practices across both regions, and the ways in which these practices relate to each other.”

🚨 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

Flyer with USF logo for the Webinar "Coproducing a research agenda for responsible and transparent AI-capabilities for decision support in urban governance" to be organized on 24th October 2025, 14:00 (GMT+1). Zoom (mandatory registration). Seminar - Online. Presentation of SS25.AI4UG research plan, detailing the purpose of each seminar (Boston, Brasilia, and Manchester) and the methods used in the training sessions associated with the seminars. We invite academics working on urban research, including PhD students and ECRs, and urban governance practitioners to register for our launch Webinar 0.

Flyer with USF logo for the Webinar "Coproducing a research agenda for responsible and transparent AI-capabilities for decision support in urban governance" to be organized on 24th October 2025, 14:00 (GMT+1). Zoom (mandatory registration). Seminar - Online. Presentation of SS25.AI4UG research plan, detailing the purpose of each seminar (Boston, Brasilia, and Manchester) and the methods used in the training sessions associated with the seminars. We invite academics working on urban research, including PhD students and ECRs, and urban governance practitioners to register for our launch Webinar 0.

💻 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.

Flyer with USF logo for the event "Commodification in contemporary urbanization: Global dynamics and local resistances" on 15 October 2025 to 17 October 2025 9:00 (GMT-5), Lima (Perú). On a picture by Maria Tuanama Language: English-Spanish

Flyer with USF logo for the event "Commodification in contemporary urbanization: Global dynamics and local resistances" on 15 October 2025 to 17 October 2025 9:00 (GMT-5), Lima (Perú). On a picture by Maria Tuanama Language: English-Spanish

🏙️ 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

Flyer with USF for the blog "Cities at War" on a picture by Mona Fawaz. And the quote "“This Cities at War online lecture series provides a platform for academics affected by war to share their research on/in cities at war within a reflexive positionality. The series brings together 17 scholars, all of whom live in and/or have lived and were forcefully displaced from war-torn cities, and it invites them to present research about the multiple ways in which military conflicts and their aftermath have produced and re-produced their cities.”

Flyer with USF for the blog "Cities at War" on a picture by Mona Fawaz. And the quote "“This Cities at War online lecture series provides a platform for academics affected by war to share their research on/in cities at war within a reflexive positionality. The series brings together 17 scholars, all of whom live in and/or have lived and were forcefully displaced from war-torn cities, and it invites them to present research about the multiple ways in which military conflicts and their aftermath have produced and re-produced their cities.”

🕊️ 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
#CitiesAtWar #UrbanStudies

[Image description: A flyer with USF logo for a Special Issue titled "Overlooked people, places, and practices: shifting the gaze in Asian and South African cities" in the journal Urbanisation. It notes that the issue features contributions from academics and artists working on South African and Asian cities. Acknowledgment is given to the Overlooked Cities Collective and the Urban Studies Foundation, which funded the Seminar Series that inspired the issue. Background image via Flickr by Stephen Broadhurst]

📢 New Special Issue in Urbanisation!
"Overlooked people, places, and practices: shifting the gaze in Asian and South African cities"
Curated by the Overlooked Cities Collective, funded by #USFSeminarSeriesAwards
ow.ly/8awM50W5wjW
#UrbanStudies #GlobalSouth #OverlookedCities

[Image description: Flyer with USF logo and the quote "The New Municipalism, Democratic Ownership and the Politics of the Common workshop series emerged as a response to the increasing focus in municipalist movements, or what we term the radical municipalist hypothesis, both in practice and research." on a picture via flikr by Evelyn Berg]

🔎 In this guest post, Dr Bertie Russell, Dr Iolanda Bianchi & Lavinia Steinfort reflect on their research into New Municipalism, supported by a #USFSeminarSeriesAwards grant.
Their project explores democratic ownership, the commons & radical municipalist politics.
👇
ow.ly/iVWI50VTQCR

[Image description: Flyer with USF logo and the cover of the book "Peripheral Centralities. The Lost and Past Urbanity of the Suburbs" Edited By Nicholas A. Phelps, Roger Keil, Paul Maginn, former SSA grant holders. On a Photo via Flickr by antefixus21]

📢 Coming soon! The book "Peripheral Centralities: The Lost and Past Urbanity of the Suburbs", edited by Nicholas A. Phelps, @rkeil.bsky.social and Paul Maginn, is the result of a #USFSeminarSeriesAwards grant. It explores the overlooked yet central role that suburban peripheries.
ow.ly/m2Wy50VfCRy

[Image description: Flyer with USF logo and the quote: "We adopted this concept [feminist urban struggles] to describe the everyday, multiple strategies and articulations often led by women to simultaneously transform and protect their peripheral territories while also facing intersectional violence." on a Photo of UMM activists taken by Amanda Silber Bleich, 15 March 2024.]

🔔New on the #USFBlog: In this guest post, Dr Priscila Izar, Prof Paula Freire Santoro, and Dr Elinorata Mbuya discuss their research on how urban transformations in peripheral areas impact marginalized women, a project supported by a #USFSeminarSeriesAwards grant.
👉https://ow.ly/Ilpm50VbLIu

[Image description: Flyer with USF logo and the quote: "We focus on three aspects particularly: firstly, the historical and contemporary debates on the connection between overlookedness and ordinariness; secondly, counter-overlooking as an emerging, collectivising agenda in global urban studies, especially around the knowledge-policy-justice nexus; thirdly, mapping the overlooked urban conditions and interrogating the ethos and praxis of overlooked/ness and their planning implications." on a picture of Bandung via flikr by Haifee.]

🔔 In this guest post, Dr Isolde de Villiers, Dr Yimin Zhao, and Dr Erwin Nugraha share their experiences from a series of seminars focused on Overlooked Cities, supported by a #USFSeminarSeriesAwards grant.

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Quote: UTA-Do is a yearly critical urban studies ‘summer school’ that aims to contribute to making African urban scholarship and imagination more inclusive, and primarily through working to democratise access to the resources required to shape and produce information about African cities. UTA-Do brings together emerging scholars, artists, and activists around the shared project of thinking and doing the urban. with USF logo on a picture of "The Citizen Canvas"

🎥 Check out "The Citizen Canvas," a short film produced for the 2024 UTA-Do workshop! A visual chronicle of Dar es Salaam, this film captures the city’s landscapes, practices, and histories. Funded by #USFSeminarSeriesAwards.
Learn more about the project and watch the film here: ow.ly/FliZ50V1Rf4

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🚨 Last reminder!

📢 Applications for the 2025 USF Seminar Series Awards close on 17th February 2025! There's still time to submit your proposal.

More info here 👉 ow.ly/8xU650UoJOJ
#USFSeminarSeriesAwards #UrbanStudies

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🚨 New blog alert! In this guest post, Anuj Daga explores the results and impact of ‘The Waiting Room’ exhibition, supported by a #USFSeminarSeriesAwards and #USFKnowledgeMobilisationAward. The exhibition reflects on the politics of (in)visibility of youth ow.ly/LRTo50UH8K4

[Image description: Flyer with USF logo announcing the 2025 "Seminar Series Awards" Call for Applications, featuring a photo via Flickr by Chemnitz]

🔔 Deadline approaching! Apply now for the 2025 USF Seminar Series Awards! 📚✨
Submit your proposals by 17th February 2025.
Don't miss out—visit the USF website for more details! 👉 ow.ly/8xU650UoJOJ
#USFSeminarSeriesAwards #UrbanStudies

Flyer with USF logo and the quote "Existing scholarship on Middle Eastern and Latin American urbanism suggests that religious and ideological institutions, as well as non-state actors, have often assumed or reclaimed certain state functions. These actors frequently overlap with, contradict, or complement state-led urban policies." on a photo via Flickr by Ádám Szedlák

In this guest post, Dr Azadeh Mashayekhi, Dr Noura Wahby, and Dr Camila Pereira Saraiva discuss the outcomes of the seminars on religious actors and urban planning in Latin America and the Middle East, which were supported by a #USFSeminarSeriesAwards grant. Read online: ow.ly/bFMA50Ux4to