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Sheffield Urbanism is an initiative that brings together the urban research community across the University of Sheffield: a dynamic, productive and innovative centre for world-leading interdisciplinary urban research.

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Sheffield Urbanism @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
New episode #UrbanRadar www.buzzsprout.com/2451716/epis... Brexit, austerity and youth futures, with @smhall.bsky.social And plenty else on the radar, including youth hubs, zoos, war with Russian, the Venezuelan earthquake, goonism and flags @goodfellowtom.bsky.social @itsbethperry.bsky.social
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29. BREXIT, AUSTERITY AND YOUTH FUTURES: Ten years later, +unbounding zoos, +war with Russia, +street 'goons' in Kenya, +banned flags in Oxfordshire and more - Urban Radar
In this episode Tom and Beth are joined by Professor Sarah Marie Hall from the University of Manchester to reflect on ten years since Brexit and specifically how austerity has altered the lifecourses ...
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Sheffield Urbanism @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
And also on our radar Listen here www.buzzsprout.com/2451716/epis...
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Sheffield Urbanism @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Great to speak with you Lotte! Here's a sneak peak of what we covered! Listen here www.buzzsprout.com/2451716/epis...
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Sheffield Urbanism @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
All eyes on Makerfield! The town that might decide the UK's future PM Our latest podcast features @lottehargrave.bsky.social from @manchester.ac.uk helping Urban Radar better understand the factors shaping the outcome of the Makerfield by-election Listen here www.buzzsprout.com/2451716/epis...
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27. MAKING A PRIME MINISTER IN MAKERFIELD? Predicting election results, +Ebola in African cities, +domestic worker activism, +global sand crisis, +housing and the World Urban Forum and more - Urban Ra...
In this episode Beth and Tom are joined by Dr Lotte Hargrave from the University of Manchester to discuss whether psephology - the study of elections and voting behaviour - can predict the next Prime ...
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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Excited to participate in this GlobalCORRIDOR event organised by Catherine Ngahu in Nairobi. Join us in person/online for some great talks on global infrastructure projects in East Africa on Tues 26th May biea.ac.uk/events/globa...
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African Cities Research Consortium @africancities.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
PODCAST | Comparative learning through community exchange: A conversation with Jack Makau and Temilade Sesan This episode of Urban Radar explores how urban communities in informal settlements can build power through their own forms of knowledge and data collection.
Podcast artwork for Urban Radar.
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Sheffield Urbanism @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Listen to the full episode here www.buzzsprout.com/2451716/epis...
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Sheffield Urbanism @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
On Urban Radar's latest feature - chaos and desire A double book talk with @tshafique.bsky.social Tanya Zack in convo with @itsbethperry.bsky.social and @goodfellowtom.bsky.social as usual www.buzzsprout.com/2451716/epis...
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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
I have a new short piece out in Environment and Planning A journal 'The multipolarity and geo-politics of climate finance' A response to Bryant and Webber's (amazing) book: Climate Finance: Taking a Position on Climate Futures journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
We've worked with the Geographical Association to develop some school learning materials for A-Level students to think through financialisation, displacement, gentrification etc 'Post-industrial urban change in the UK: A Manchester case study' geography.org.uk/resources/po...
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Post-industrial urban change in the UK: A Manchester case study - Geographical Association
These resources for A level students and teachers consider urban change in Manchester, UK, and include a guided urban walk around the city centre to explore the nature of this regeneration.
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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Global Corridor newsletter #12 "Bomb/Blockade/Bypass" is focused on the emerging geographies of the infrastructural blockade and attempts at establishing bypass infrastructures. globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...
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Global Corridor #12
Bomb/Blockade/Bypass: How the War on Iran turned into an Infrastructure War
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Tom Goodfellow @goodfellowtom.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
On #UrbanRadar this month, we talk to Hannah Sender & Mariam Bazzi about the effects of seemingly endless military violence in #Lebanon on housing for displaced people. We also consider the #Beirut Urban Lab’s wider work, including tracking ‘urbicide’ in Gaza. Plus our usual monthly news radar…
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Tom Goodfellow @goodfellowtom.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
It was a total pleasure to have @ctemenos.bsky.social on #UrbanRadar to talk about her work on #crisis #policymaking, public health and the city with me and @itsbethperry.bsky.social. From social infrastructures to the politics of expertise, listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/2451716/epis...
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22. CRISIS, PUBLIC HEALTH & THE CITY: A conversation with Cristina Temenos - Urban Radar
In this episode Beth and Tom are joined by Cristina Temenos from the University of Manchester to discuss a wide range of issues from trust in medicine, responses to COVID-19 and experimentation and ev...
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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Last shout out to join us for tomorrow's workshop, from 2pm at Site Gallery, Sheffield 'Sensorial Methodologies, Extended Urbanization; sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...
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Sensorial Methodologies, Extended Urbanization
This workshop, incorporating film screening, book launch and panel discussion, brings together urban researchers exploring the geographies of extended and planetary urbanization through visual based m...
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Krzysztof Nawratek @msoamsoa.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Celebrating Greens winning by-election
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Nation of Neighbours
Why I distrust communities but believe in parishes
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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
The Infrastructural Geography of the US/Israel War on Iran… …From data centres to logistical bottlenecks, supply chains to real estate markets, shipping to petroleum networks globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...
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Sheffield Urbanism @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
One for the weekend Would you... Could you... Should you get in a self-driving taxi? As London gears up for its first trial, #UrbanRadar discusses the promise and pitfalls of robotic urban infrastructure with Aidan While With @goodfellowtom.bsky.social and @itsbethperry.bsky.social as usual
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Sheffield Urbanism @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
New podcast episode now available URBAN ROBOTICS BY STEALTH open.spotify.com/episode/1dYQ... plus a range of other issues as usual All recorded before the weekend - how things change With Aidan While, @itsbethperry.bsky.social and @goodfellowtom.bsky.social
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Urban Institute @theurbaninstitute.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Sensorial Methodologies, Extended Urbanization This workshop, incorporating film screening, book launch and panel discussion, brings together urban researchers exploring the geographies of extended and planetary urbanization through visual based methodologies. sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...
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Sensorial Methodologies, Extended Urbanization
This workshop, incorporating film screening, book launch and panel discussion, brings together urban researchers exploring the geographies of extended and planetary urbanization through visual based m...
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Sheffield Urbanism @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Catch up with the latest urban radar podcast ... Here's a sneak peek of @felipemagallhaes.bsky.social @xuniamortimer.bsky.social @ctemenos.bsky.social @itsbethperry.bsky.social @goodfellowtom.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/6mXj...
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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
We have a new paper in @ijurresearch.bsky.social ‘ 'EVERYTHING IS BEING DISTURBED’: Unsettling the Spaces of Global Infrastructure along the Northern Corridor Special economic zones, railway projects + more with Sydney Nsubuga onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...
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Jenny Pickerill @jennypickerill.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Our new piece out today in Times Higher Education about the threats to Geography in the UK - particularly fieldwork - please do share. It links to a recent snapshot survey on the challenges being faced in UK HE, which highlights the inequities of the challenges, but also fears of what is yet to come
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The UK universities cutting geography have lost their bearings
From climate change to geopolitics, the knowledge, skills and insights of geographers have never been more relevant, say five professors
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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
My GlobalCORRIDOR newsletter 9 is out now Featuring.... New Horn of Africa corridor, the 'Lobito model', Alphabet's digital $15 billion investment in India, EXIM Bank's outstanding $289bn loans, new maritime based readings, data centre film globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...
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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Lots of new excitement about the 'Manchester model' but it's built an extractive economy that benefits capital, not labour. Read our data-led report "Centripetal Cities A critique of supply-side urban development" - t.co/Dec4wIkGGe
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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Catch up on my Global Corridor newsletter #8 featuring... US races for DRC minerals, return of the Trans-Saharan pipeline? JD Vance’s TRIPP, tensions on the Panama canal, Italian tunnels, riding the Mauritania Railway, Silicon Elsewhere + Lunar roads 👉 tinyurl.com/5x64u25w
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Global Corridor #8
US races for DRC minerals, the return of the Trans-Saharan pipeline? JD Vance’s TRIPP, more tensions on the Panama canal, Italian train tunnels, Mauritania Railway, Silicon Elsewhere and Lunar roads
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Sheffield Urbanism @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
How can we see and understand complex and volatile cities? How might we use and analyse photographs and archives in urban research? Listen to latest #urbanradar podcast with @xuniamortimer.bsky.social and @felipemagallhaes.bsky.social With @itsbethperry.bsky.social @goodfellowtom.bsky.social
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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Global Corridor newsletter #8 is out now featuring... US races for DRC minerals, the return of the Trans-Saharan pipeline? JD Vance’s TRIPP, more tensions on the Panama canal, Italian train tunnels, Mauritania Railway, Silicon Elsewhere and Lunar roads lnkd.in/duf4gE4K
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Urban Institute @theurbaninstitute.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
CfP RGS-IBG 2026: Cities in the Disinformation Age? sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...
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CfP RGS-IBG 2026: Cities in the Disinformation Age?
Beth Perry, Urban Institute and Tom Goodfellow, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester are organising a session at the RGS in London 1-4 September 2026 and have a Call for Papers on 'C...
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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Global Corridor newsletter 7 is out now featuring... New book on the Belt and Road Initiative, Burkina's revolutionary road, Destiny, a new special economic zone in the Caribbean, Foster design transport hub in Poland, Venezuelan oil, Pakistani railways globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...
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UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence @housingevidence.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
📅 Join us online on Thursday 19 February 10-11am GMT as we introduce the Non-Decent Index (NDI), a free tool that identifies hotspots of Decent Homes failure in England. 📝 Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rolling-ou...
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Rolling out the Decent Homes Standard: Introducing the Non-Decent Index
This webinar introduces the Non-Decent Index (NDI), a free tool that identifies hotspots of Decent Homes failure in England.
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Malcolm Tait @malcolmtait.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Thank you to everyone at the @thetcpa.bsky.social who helped with this event, especially Hugh Ellis and Jeanette Aves. We had a packed room, eager to talk about renewing the purpose for planning. We're looking forward to taking the purpose we created out to the wider world!
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Sheffield Urbanism @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
For anyone physically in Sheffield on Tuesday 3rd February we have some places for our screening of @gabrielsilvestre.bsky.social film A Place in the City Check out details here sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...
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A Place in The City, Film Screening
The Urban Institute and IGSD Cities warmly invite you to a screening of the film “A Place in the City” (2025, 61 minutes) followed by a discussion with the director Gabriel Silvestre (Newcastle Univer...
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Sheffield Urbanism @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
SERIES TWO of Urban Radar now available on all usual streaming platforms Check out latest offering from @itsbethperry.bsky.social and @goodfellowtom.bsky.social with guest Erika Garcia Fermin www.buzzsprout.com/2451716/epis... #Greenland #Iran #Venezuela #neighbourhoods #disinformation #embassies
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Sheffield Urbanism @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Compelling set of outputs from our colleagues at the Karachi Urban Lab including a new film and report - download them below
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Sheffield Urbanism @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Check out this podcast episode from Urban Studies journal with @invisiblemapper.bsky.social A great insight into Jon's work and the GlobalCORRIDOR project
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Sheffield Urbanism @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Here's the wrap up of #urbanradar for 2025! open.spotify.com/episode/76iH... - #Bogota's care blocks - #Subtervising - Scrapping trial by #jury - #US #Security Strategy - #Australia's #social #media ban - #Syrian cities one year on @itsbethperry.bsky.social @goodfellowtom.bsky.social
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Sheffield Urbanism @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Sneaky listen of Julia Moses talking with @goodfellowtom.bsky.social and @itsbethperry.bsky.social on #urbanradar About child labour and urban and rural dimensions drawing on her project @glosoc.bsky.social
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Professor Beth Perry @itsbethperry.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Learnt so much chatting with Julia and Dani on the latest #urbanradar podcast open.spotify.com/episode/4JFq... And quite a bit of lying on my part (though I do actually like elephants)
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Radar 11: CHILD LABOUR AND DISINFORMATION (+immigration policy, +COP30 in Belem, +ticket touts, +urban statistics and more…)
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Sheffield Urbanism @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Free book! Download now if you're interested in the material geographies of the belt and road initiative @invisiblemapper.bsky.social @itsbethperry.bsky.social And listen to Jon talking about some of the work on the #urbanradar podcast here open.spotify.com/episode/4xGv...
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Feature 10: CHINA, THE GLOBAL INFRASTRUCTURE RACE AND ITS URBAN IMPACTS - A panel with Jon Silver, Zhengli Huang and Linda Westman
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Sheffield Urbanism @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
On mansion taxes and why they aren't enough ... according to @drabioconnor.bsky.social
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Sheffield Urbanism @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
If you've not signed up, check out the Global Corridor newsletter here ... Critical geopolitical reading of forces shaping urban worlds @theurbaninstitute.bsky.social @invisiblemapper.bsky.social @itsbethperry.bsky.social @drabioconnor.bsky.social @eyeofraf.bsky.social @callumny.bsky.social
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Sheffield Urbanism @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Another episode of #urbanradar now available, just in time for weekend listening RADAR 11: CHILD LABOUR AND DISINFORMATION With Julia Moses and Dani Madrid-Morales And of course @goodfellowtom.bsky.social & @itsbethperry.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/4JFq... @unishefplayer.bsky.social
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Radar 11: CHILD LABOUR AND DISINFORMATION (+immigration policy, +COP30 in Belem, +ticket touts, +urban statistics and more…)
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Urban Institute @theurbaninstitute.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Latest Urban Radar podcast is out Feature 10: CHINA, THE GLOBAL INFRASTRUCTURE RACE AND ITS URBAN IMPACTS - A panel with Jon Silver, Zhengli Huang and Linda Westman www.buzzsprout.com/2451716/epis...
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Sheffield Urbanism @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
And he won! For some insight into how @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social got there, listen to the discussion from July with @katiepruszynski.bsky.social, @itsbethperry.bsky.social and @goodfellowtom.bsky.social Full episode here open.spotify.com/episode/2GhJ... Skip to 25:10 for more
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Sheffield Migration Research Group @sheffieldmrg.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Join us for a full day of mobilisation at the University of Sheffield on 11/11/2025 from 11am to 4pm (no need to register) Programme and more information here: sheffield.ac.uk/migration-re...
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Sheffield Urbanism @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
@un-habitat.bsky.social World Cities Day! And another episode of #urbanradar open.spotify.com/episode/3VgE... Tune in for @goodfellowtom.bsky.social and @itsbethperry.bsky.social talking @zackpolanski.bsky.social with @mattflinders.bsky.social, & Gaza reconstruction with Said Zaaneen
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Radar 10: GREEN RESURGENCE & GAZA RECONSTRUCTION (+Brexit, +rats, +Louvre heist, +AI Friend and more)
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Sheffield Urbanism @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Another taster of the latest #UrbanRadar feature on Humanity's Urban Future with Ash Amin, @goodfellowtom.bsky.social and @itsbethperry.bsky.social @britishacademy.bsky.social @unishefplayer.bsky.social
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Sheffield Urbanism @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Listen to this clip of @xazaaradjame.bsky.social in conversation with @itsbethperry.bsky.social and @goodfellowtom.bsky.social with Ash Amin, drawing on work for @britishacademy.bsky.social and CIFAR @michelelancione.bsky.social @theurbaninstitute.bsky.social
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Sheffield Urbanism @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
A very special episode of #UrbanRadar #podcast to share this Urban October. open.spotify.com/episode/20A1... HUMANITY'S URBAN FUTURE with @xazaaradjame.bsky.social and Ash Amin Featuring work funded by CIFAR with the @britishacademy.bsky.social
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Feature 9: HUMANITY'S URBAN FUTURE - A conversation with AbdouMaliq Simone and Ash Amin
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