Urban Studies Foundation

🏙️ 'Royal agency in contemporary city building in Southeast Asia': Special issue guest co-edited by former #USFInternationalFellow Dr Ofita Purwani with Jane M Jacobs. 🔗 Read the special issue: zurl.co/Buxa5 👤 Ofita’s USF profile: zurl.co/JMMxb #UrbanStudies #UrbanStudiesFoundation #USF

📢 Exciting news! The Urban Studies Foundation welcomes twelve new International Fellows, our largest cohort to date. These scholars will advance urban research with host institutions around the world. 🔗 Meet the Fellows: zurl.co/Bn5ZY #UrbanStudies #USFInternationalFellow #GlobalUrbanism #USF

🎬 Now streaming: “Territory” by former #USFInternationalFellow Dr Telma Hoyler The full-length documentary is now available to watch on the USF YouTube channel! Supported by a #USFKnowledgeMobilisationAward. ▶️ Watch the film: zurl.co/l4hxV 🔗 Website: zurl.co/Ul9K1 👉 Read more: zurl.co/TkLTI #USF

📢 New open access publication by former #USFPostdoctoralResearchFellow Dr Syeda Jenifa Zahan in Antipode. "From housing to infrastructure of racialisation: The politics of caste in smart housing interventions in India" 🇮🇳 🔗 zurl.co/jYWC8 #UrbanStudies #UrbanStudiesFoundation #USF #India #Housing

🆕 New #USFblog post: “GeoHeat-SSA: A GeoAI decision-support platform for urban heat governance in Sub-Saharan Africa” Dr Andrews Korah on a USF Urban Urgencies project in Ghana. 🇬🇭 🔗 Read here: zurl.co/sQ9wJ 👉 Learn more: zurl.co/wPsmf #UrbanStudies #UrbanStudiesFoundation #USF #USFUrbanUrgencies

📢 This week in Lima 🇵🇪: International Conference “Commodification and resistance in access to land and housing”, part of a #USFSeminarSeriesAwards project. 🗓️ 14–16 October 2026 📍 PUCP, Lima, Peru (in person) 🔗 Register: zurl.co/N8Hqn 📋 Programme: zurl.co/jSWug 📸 Instagram: zurl.co/gJRma #USF

📘 New special issue! Congratulations to former #USFInternationalFellow Dr Ofita Purwani, who guest co-edited the Urban Studies special issue "Royal agency in contemporary city building in Southeast Asia" with Dr Jane M Jacobs. 🔗 zurl.co/fjGvM 👤 zurl.co/ti3QY #UrbanStudies #UrbanStudiesFoundation

🎨 Zine alert: Marammat (meaning "repair"), created with young participants in Hyderabad through a #USFSeminarSeriesAwards project, is featured at "JUGAAD: Absolute Improvisation". 🗓️ 9–10 October 2026 📍 SAC Art Amsterdam, Panamakade 200 🔗 zurl.co/sPqXX #UrbanStudies #UrbanStudiesFoundation #USF

🆕 New #USFblog post: "Vital grounds: Revaluing urban soils in the afterlife of mining" Dr Anastasiya Halauniova on a USF Urban Urgencies project in Newcastle upon Tyne. 🌱 🔗 Read here: zurl.co/3BCU3 👉 Learn more: zurl.co/ySffE #UrbanStudies #UrbanStudiesFoundation #USF #USFUrbanUrgencies

🆕 New #USFblog post: "Urbanisation beyond Nusantara: a new, more sustainable growth machine?" Looking beyond administrative boundaries, former #USFInternationalFellow Dr Galuh Syahbana Indraprahasta explores the 'Tri-City Superhub' in Indonesia. 🔗 Read here: zurl.co/xXt3d #UrbanStudies #USF

🆕 #USFBlog: "Repairing the city? From shiny new infrastructure to the everyday labour of keeping infrastructure 'alive'" Former #USFInternationalFellow Dr Lazarus Jambadu on water infrastructure maintenance, politics, and urban inequality across Accra and Dar es Salaam. 🔗 zurl.co/XJUEG #USF

🔔 New on #USFBlog: "Open Kitchen: Weaving protection and care for communities on the move" Prof Andrés Salcedo Fidalgo, Liliana Gaviria, and Karol Viviana Cubillos Gutiérrez on a USF Urban Urgencies project in Bogotá.🇨🇴 🔗 Read here: zurl.co/TJh3T 🔗 Learn more: zurl.co/efcIn #USF #USFUrbanUrgencies

🔔 Upcoming event: "Navigating sacredness in the Anthropocene: Towards a post-secular political ecology?" 📅 25 September 2026 | 09:30–14:00 (GMT+2) 📍 Institute of Advanced Study, Sweelinck Room, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 🔗 Register: zurl.co/S4rrS 👉 More details: zurl.co/zmVgU #USF

📢 Call for Papers: "Urban polycrisis and creative storytelling: A feminist/and decolonial approach to urban pedagogies" — co-convened by USF International Fellows Dr Nian Paul and Dr Raina Ghosh at ISA 2027 in Gwangju, Korea. 🇰🇷 🗓️ Abstracts by 14 October 2026 🔗 zurl.co/IUIIV #UrbanStudiesFoundation

🔔 New #USFBlog post: "Withdrawing from the city: Co-researching social withdrawal in Osaka and Seoul" Dr Didi Kyoung-Ae Han on a USF Urban Urgencies project in Osaka and Seoul. 🇯🇵🇰🇷 🔗 Read here: zurl.co/k3Fz7 👉 Learn more: zurl.co/yqqSR #UrbanStudies #UrbanStudiesFoundation #USF #USFUrbanUrgencies

📢 Upcoming #USFSeminarSeriesAwards Event La Universidad en los contextos de encierro: Universities in Contexts of Confinement 📅 16 September 2026 | 13:00–15:00 (GMT-5) 📍 Auditorio Paulo Freire, National Pedagogical University, Bogotá, Colombia 🗣️ Spanish & English 🔗 Learn more: zurl.co/ppWwi

📢 Upcoming #USFSeminarSeriesAwards online training session "AI agents for human mobility in healthy & sustainable cities" 🗓️ 29 September 2026 🕐 18:00 China (UTC+8) | 15:30 India (UTC+5:30) | 11:00 UK (UTC+1) 🔗 Register: zurl.co/Ox6G5 👉 Learn more: zurl.co/iGKH5 👉 Project website: zurl.co/RVNA4

📢 New open access publication by former #USFPostdoctoralResearchFellow Dr Syeda Jenifa Zahan in Antipode. "The production of carcerality in state-led redevelopment of informal settlements in Delhi, India" 🇮🇳 🔗 zurl.co/rHN6A #UrbanStudies #UrbanStudiesFoundation #India #Housing #USF

🆕 New #USFBlog post: "PRIVATEVICTIONS: Confronting the privatisation of evictions and building tenant power in Spain" Dr Ana Santamarina on "PRIVATEVICTIONS", a USF Urban Urgencies project. 🇪🇸 🔗 Read here: zurl.co/Lkcdz 🔗 Learn more: zurl.co/yCLr3 #UrbanStudies #USF #UrbanUrgencies #Housing

📚 New book by former #USFPostdoctoralResearchFellow Max Holleran and Samuel Holleran "Scattered Steel: The Afterlife of the World Trade Center" — how fragments of the Twin Towers became modern relics, scattered across fifty states and built into hundreds of local memorials. 🇺🇸 🔗 zurl.co/L6UwL #USF

📢 New publication out! "Who is a construction worker? Bureaucratic arbitrariness, entrepreneurial unions and performances of eligibility in Delhi" by former #USFPostdoctoralResearchFellow Dr Sanjeev Routray. 🔗 zurl.co/n6xtq #UrbanStudies #UrbanStudiesFoundation #USF #LabourRights #India

🆕 New #USFBlog post: "Listening to women's narratives of urban collapse in Tripoli, Lebanon" Ms Joana Dabaj on "Urban collapse, care, and climate: Women's narratives of polycrises in Tripoli", a USF Urban Urgencies project. 🔗 Read here: zurl.co/hhn9O 🔗 Learn more: zurl.co/YgbFN #USF #UrbanStudies

📚 C.P. Pow — Selected Essays | Free to download This open access collection of ten of C.P. Pow's most impactful essays is free to download, produced by the #USF to honour the legacy of his contribution to urban studies. 🔗 Learn more and download the book: zurl.co/Vvmcd #UrbanStudiesFoundation

📢 Book launch: Modelos urbanos en movimiento: geografías, actores y agendas políticas en América Latina (Urban models in motion: geographies, actors, and political agendas in Latin America). 🗓️ 26 August 2026, 13:30 CDMX 🗣️ In Spanish 🔗 zurl.co/KzAAx ID: 263 836 872 676 836 | Passcode: oV7SV6ra

📢 New publication by former #USFInternationalFellow Dr Basirat Ashabi Oyalowo in the Urban Studies Journal. "Spatial justice and resilience: Unpacking community responses to lockdown policies in Lagos" 🔗 Read the article: zurl.co/fJFFX #UrbanStudies #UrbanStudiesFoundation #USF #SpatialJustice

📚 C.P. Pow — Selected Essays | Free to download This open access collection of ten of C.P. Pow's most impactful essays is free to download, produced by the #USF to honour the legacy of his contribution to urban studies. 🔗 Learn more and download the book: zurl.co/QFMOj #UrbanStudiesFoundation

🎥 Screenings continue: "Territory" by former #USFInternationalFellow Dr Telma Hoyler "Territory" follows a left-wing candidate navigating politics on São Paulo's urban periphery. Supported by a #USFKnowledgeMobilisationAward. ▶️ Trailer: zurl.co/iQL8B 🔗 Info: zurl.co/eL7Hr #UrbanStudies #USF

🎉 Introducing six new Urban Urgencies projects by the Urban Studies Foundation. Six rapid-response projects tackling housing precarity, urban heat, food insecurity, climate risk, social withdrawal, and industrial soil legacies — each with a non-academic partner. 🔗 Read more: zurl.co/NUoOC #USF

📖 New #USFblog guest post by Julia Strutz and Zena Asswad: "Studying cities at war: The destruction of knowledge infrastructures and exclusions" 👉 Read the blog post: zurl.co/8lXXT 📚 Access the publication: zurl.co/EDM5X ℹ️ Learn more: zurl.co/QDjcV #UrbanStudies #UrbanStudiesFoundation #USF

📚 C.P. Pow — Selected Essays | Free to download We're pleased to share this curated collection of ten of C.P. Pow's most impactful essays, produced by the #USF to honour the legacy of his contribution to urban studies. 🔗 Learn more and download the book: zurl.co/Cgyho #UrbanStudiesFoundation

🆕 #USFBlog: "Two decades of southern urban theory: Notes beyond informality" Dr Sushmita Pati, Dr Anwesha Ghosh, Dr Mukta Naik, and Dr Chandrima Mukhopadhyay on a USF-funded workshop in Delhi examining southern urbanism as a subfield: its tensions, its evolution, and its limits. 🔗 zurl.co/VesaG

📢 New open access publication by #USF Writing Urban India Fellow Dhiren Swain in Contemporary South Asia. "Negotiating the urban margins: 'committees' and in situ slum titling in Odisha's Basti settlements" 🔗 Read the article: zurl.co/BkobX 🔗 Learn more: zurl.co/rN84X #UrbanStudiesFoundation

🔔 USF Blog! "Public art for whom?": Creativity and urban futures in Delhi Former #USFInternationalFellow Dr Nian Paul on how state-led public art in Delhi reshapes who gets to access and belong in urban space. 🇮🇳 Read the guest post 👉 zurl.co/a2vfC #UrbanStudes #USF #SpatialJustice

📢 Read "Khula area: The urban and the pathological" by USF Writing Urban India Fellow Shweta Rani A look at how dengue governance in Delhi reveals the intersection of public health, urban infrastructure, and power. 🇮🇳 🔗 zurl.co/FyurO
 #UrbanStudies #USF #UrbanStudiesFoundation

📢 New publication by former #USFInternationalFellow Dr Sarita Pillay Gonzalez in Environment and Planning A. "Consolidating homegrown property empires and transforming a local state: The multiple trajectories behind commercial cityscapes in Johannesburg after apartheid" 🔗 zurl.co/nXOV3 #UrbanStudies

📚 C.P. Pow — Selected Essays | Free to download We're pleased to share this curated collection of ten of C.P. Pow's most impactful essays, produced by the #USF to honour the legacy of his contribution to urban studies. 🔗 Learn more and download the book: zurl.co/FU6uR #UrbanStudiesFoundation

📢 “The Ethnographic Sketchbook: Drawing as a method for Creative and Critical Practice”, presented by #USFInternationalFellow Raina Ghosh at the Pluriversal Methods Forum. 📅 2 July 2026 | 10:00–15:30 (UTC+1)
 📍 Hybrid: UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London
 🔗 zurl.co/uZftW #USF

📢 Upcoming #USFSeminarSeriesAwards event "Panthakunja Park: Fight for the Urban Commons in Dhaka" is the fifth masterclass in "Ordinary Ecologies of Repair". 📅 2 July 2026 | 4.00 pm Dhaka | 3.00 pm Karachi | 3.30 pm Delhi 🔗 Register here: zurl.co/GE0dn 👉 Learn more: zurl.co/ti6AU #USF

⏰ Reminder: USF International Fellowships grant funding callFully-funded Urban Studies Foundation program, which offers 3-9 month sabbatical research visits for urban scholars from the Global South. 🗓️ Deadline: 6 July 2026 (23:59 UTC+0) 🔗 Learn more & apply: zurl.co/Ou5M7 #UrbanStudies

🎥 New documentary by former #USFInternationalFellow Dr Sandra Carolina Pulido Chaparro! "Ellas" explores memory and resistance in self-built neighbourhoods in northern Bogotá. A poetic reflection on inequality, gentrification, and the right to housing. 🇨🇴 ▶️ Watch now: zurl.co/Yxswi #UrbanStudies #USF

📚 New open access book from #USFSeminarSeriesAwards grantholders Guillermo Jajamovich, Isabel Duque Franco, and Ryan Anders Whitney! "Modelos urbanos en movimiento: geografías, actores y agendas políticas en América Latina" 🔗 Download: zurl.co/RFNRq
 🔗 Learn more: zurl.co/ANgjN

⏰ Reminder: USF International Fellowships grant funding call Fully-funded Urban Studies Foundation program, which offers 3-9 month sabbatical research visits for urban scholars from the Global South. 🗓️ Deadline: 6 July 2026 (23:59 UTC+0) 🔗 Learn more & apply: zurl.co/of3D6 #UrbanStudies

📢 Upcoming #USFSeminarSeriesAwards event "Lyari Kaur Kinaray: Forgotten Ecologies in a Changed Climate" is the fourth masterclass in "Ordinary Ecologies of Repair". 📅 22 June 2026 | 3.00 pm Karachi | 4.00 pm Dhaka | 3.30 pm Delhi 🔗 Register: zurl.co/VYN6M 👉 Learn more: zurl.co/fwF9b #USF

📢 Extending Comparisons: Putting Eastern Europe and Africa in Conversation Final #USFSeminarSeriesAwards seminar in a cross-regional series exploring urban politics across Benin and Tallinn. 📅 1–2 July | UCL London & Online 👉 Info and registration: zurl.co/2WUKf 🔗 Programme: zurl.co/Mwaf9 #USF

📢 Upcoming #USFSeminarSeriesAwards event "Talking Poromboke: Healing Chennai" is the third masterclass in "Ordinary Ecologies of Repair". Anchored by Nityanand Jayaraman. 📅 20 June 2026, 4:00 pm (IST) 🔗 Register: zurl.co/1qhuE 👉 Learn more: zurl.co/QK8JH #UrbanStudies #USF #SouthAsia

📢 Upcoming seminar from #USFInternationalFellow Dr Michael Gameli Dziwornu — how large-scale festive events like Detty December transform urban space in West African cities. 📅 24 June 2026 | 09:30–11:30 (GMT+1) 📍 University of Manchester 🔗 zurl.co/aREvd #UrbanStudies #UrbanStudiesFoundation

🎥 Watch "Servis: commoning commutes" on YouTube ▶️ zurl.co/4mGgZ 👉 The story behind the film by former #USFInternationalFellow Dr Eda Beyazit: zurl.co/ulSo7 A documentary funded by a #USFKnowledgeMobilisationAward 🇹🇷🚌 #UrbanStudies #USF #UrbanStudiesFoundation #Istanbul

📢 #USFSeminarSeriesAwards Event Feminist Geographies of Carcerality in Palestine, a seminar exploring how prison violence extends into urban spaces, and the gendered dimensions of the carceral system. 📅 13 June 2026, 13:00 📍 Birzeit & Zoom 🔗 Register: zurl.co/t87cV 👉 Learn more: zurl.co/0ZpzA

📢 Upcoming #USFSeminarSeriesAwards event "Dehat in Flux: Facing Climate Anxiety in Peri-Urban Delhi" is the second masterclass in "Ordinary Ecologies of Repair". Anchored by Dr Rohit Negi. 📅 8 June 2026, 5pm (IST) 🔗 Register: zurl.co/1VKQf 👉 Learn more: zurl.co/7OnMO #UrbanStudes #USF

🎬 New documentary by former #USFInternationalFellow Dr Sandra Carolina Pulido Chaparro! "Ellas" explores memory and resistance in self-built neighbourhoods in northern Bogotá. A poetic reflection on inequality, gentrification, and the right to housing. 🇨🇴 ▶️ zurl.co/ahpeY #UrbanStudies #USF