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Living with green infrastructure: Politics and practices in Glasgow’s residential landscapes

August 17

Ursula Lang, Assistant Professor in Residence – Political Ecology and Design Studies, Department of History, Philosophy and the Social Sciences,...

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Urbanization, Gender, and the Global South: A transformative knowledge network (GenUrb)

February 27

PI: Linda Peake, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada Situated within the dynamic early 21st century context of urbanization, the GenUrb project...

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Pitching solutions rather than tents: a case study of encampment provisions in Seattle, USA and Manchester, UK

February 13

Melissa Espinoza, PhD Candidate, School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society; Institute for Social Policy, Housing, Equalities Research...

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Transient Spatialities, Embedded bodies – An ethnographic exploration of the everyday practices of pavement dwellers in Mumbai

January 30

Paroj Banerjee, Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) This thesis examines how urban...

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MLK Street (Re) Naming, Social Justice, and African American Freedom Struggle

December 15

Derek H. Alderman, Department of Geography, University of Tennessee While the study of streets named for Martin Luther King, Jr. has long...

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Digitize and Punish: Carceral Cities and the Production of Crime Data

November 30

Brian Jordan Jefferson, Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign While critical...

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Planners and the Work of Renewal in Addis Ababa: Developmental State, Urbanizing Society

November 30

Jesse McClelland, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Geography, University of Washington My dissertation project focuses on the politics of renewal in...

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Creative Placemaking in San Francisco and Seattle. Inclusive and/or Democratic?

May 10

Vinita Goyal, Practitioner: City of Seattle Office of Planning and Community Development, and Independent Researcher Occidental/West Lake Parks...

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A început ploaia – Fighting for the right to housing in Bucharest

April 26

Michele Lancione, Urban Institute, The University of Sheffield Accordingly to Amnesty International, in Romania ‘the right to housing is not...

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