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New publication: Capitalising urban futures

Professor Simon Marvin and colleagues have published a new open access article entitled "Capitalising urban futures: digital twin cities and the simplification of urban prototyping" in City.

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Urban Lifelines: The Future Between Foreclosure and Foreshadowing

UI Emeritus Professor Maliq Simone and colleagues have published a new book on Urban Lifetimes with Polity Press.

Multilocal mobility in times of polycrisis
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Multilocal mobility in times of polycrisis: Reworking centre and periphery

Call for papers for a two-day workshop on 15-16 December 2026 bringing together scholars interested in multilocal practices across the world and related implications for centre-periphery thinking. Deadline 1st November.
Call for papers AAG 2027NYC: Critical Geographies of the Infrastructure Corrido

Critical Geographies of the Infrastructure Corridor

Call for papers AAG 2027NYC: Critical Geographies of the Infrastructure Corridor
TECHNO GARDENING

Rethinking urban nature as technonature

A new Nature Comment by Simon Marvin, Sophia Maalsen and Robyn Dowling argues that urban nature is entering a new phase in which ecological processes are increasingly sensed, modelled and continuously adjusted through digital technologies.

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Live: Second China Shock @BISA26

In June 2026, Zhengli Huang and Shizhi Zhang, were invited to participate in a featured roundtable discussion at the 2026 British International Studies Association Annual Conference in Brighton.

Surfaces of War

Open call - Surfaces of War, Surfaces of Conveyance: Popular intelligence and military capture in the Mediterranean

A twofold event organised in Turin by Michele Lancione and AbdouMaliq Simone at the Beyond Inhabitation Lab in May/June 2027 to discuss habitability, popular intelligence and militarist turns in the contemporary urban Mediterranean.
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Brain in a chip: biocomputing infrastructure and the limits of urban governance

The world’s first biological computers are here – but are cities ready for living data centres? Simon Marvin explores this in a new open access publication in Urban Geography.

Progress happens at the speed of trust

Progress happens at the speed of trust: new report on community-university partnerships

New co-authored a new case study report for Local Trust, examining what it takes to build genuine, lasting partnerships between universities and the communities they are part of has been published