Urbaria Guest Lectures is a series of lectures from renowned international urban researchers visiting the University of Helsinki. Do you have a potential speaker in mind for the lecture series? Please ...

Professor Miguel Martínez's presentation of The Handbook on Urban Sociology and Research Seminar Miguel Martínez is Professor of Urban Sociology at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research (IBF), ...

It is late afternoon at the University of the Western Cape (UWC). The door to Professor Fiona Anciano’s office stands half-open, her face illuminated by the glow of yet another online meeting. She ...

The event engages with de-centring knowledge production and 'theorising' urban studies from China/Asia as critical urban scholarship. One of the major on-going debates and challenges in critical urban ...

This course will examine different crises confronting cities in the 21st century. Topics will range from immigration, to terrorism, shrinking population, traffic congestion, pollution, energy crisis, ...

China's accelerated urbanization juxtaposes many local and global urban models in the contemporary urban space of the mega-city/metacity region. Since 1945 the global and local discourse on urban ...

Cities are physical environments—they are social settings, economic phenomena, and political arenas. An understanding of these complex social structures can come only from an analysis that transcends ...

In 1972, the University’s Urban Studies Program was born out of faculty volunteerism and a steadfast commitment to the principles of interdisciplinary exploration unique to Brown. Fifty years later, ...

Cities are physical environments—they are social settings, economic phenomena, and political arenas. An understanding of these complex social structures can come only from an analysis that transcends ...

It is often said that the first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them. EEG believes that this is true, and adopting sustainability as the only way ...

Happy City opens with a joyful adrenalin rush. Charles Montgomery is sweating at the pedals in a mountain-bike dash through the streets of Bogotá with the city's charismatic “Mayor of Happiness”, ...