News
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Inhabiting Radical Housing
The global fight for housing and the production of knowledge around it: an event organized by urban publics Zürich (upZ) on Wednesday, 11 May 2022.
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Upcoming Symposium on Biennials 19-20 May
The symposium “In Light of Crisis: The Fraught Significations of Contemporary Biennials” proposes an intensive exchange about how to understand art and architecture biennials through the lens of crisis.
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Neue Website: www.zueri-urban.com
SoKu lanciert eine neue Website für kollaborative Lehrforschungsprojekte
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Book Launch: Housing in the Margins
Informality and housing precarity: Urban perspectives across North-South. A Book Launch of Hanna Hilbrandt's Housing in the Margins (Wiley).
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New book: Housing in the Margins
Hanna Hilbrandt’s new book "Housing in the Margins" is now out in the IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series. It offers a theoretically informed and empirically detailed exploration of unruly housing practices and their governance at the periphery of Berlin.
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New Seminar Series: Decentering Urban Climate Finance
The SoKu research group on Urban Climate Finance has been granted an Urban Studies Foundation Seminar Series Award as the Lead Institution for the organization of a new seminar series on the variety of ‘ordinary’ climate finance practices in cities around the world.
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Theorising urban studies on/from China/Asia
Urban Salon online seminar on February 25 from 3:00-4:30 CET
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Urban Climate Finance on the edge of viability?
New episode of the Urban Political Podcast out now.
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SoKu Team wins GRC Grant
Julie Ren and Ifigeneia Dimitrakou receive a Graduate Campus grant to host symposium in 2021.
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New Book: Engaging Comparative Urbanism: Art Spaces in Beijing and Berlin
A new book by Julie Ren is published with Bristol University Press.
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New Annotated Bibliography on "Postcolonial Urbanism"
The Oxford Bibliographies’ new section on Urban Studies features contribution from Julie Ren.
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Conference Presentation at the RAI-RGS conference
Julie Ren presented paper on “Emotional Biennials” at the RAI-RGS 2020.
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New research project: The Urbanization of Global Climate Finance
The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) has awarded Hanna Hilbrandt project funding to investigate how cities are impacted by so-called Global Climate Finance (GCF): financing in accordance with the United Nations 48 Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
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One-day cross-disciplinary symposium
Policy Ontologies; Working Across Theory and Practice.
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Call for paper: At home: the domestic city in times of crisis
We are looking for abstracts for a panel entitled “At home: the domestic city in times of crisis” for the 18th Swiss Geoscience Meeting (November 6th & 7th 2020 in Zurich).
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New paper out in EPA
Standards and SSOs in the contested widening and deepening of financial markets: The arrival of Green Municipal Bonds in Mexico City.
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Urban Sustainability as New Financial Fix?
What are the consequences of climate investments in cities of the Global South? In a new podcast episode of "Urban Political" Hanna Hilbrandt talks about the Green Municipal Bonds issued by Mexico City in 2016.
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Open positions
We are looking for scholars interested in doing critical urban research. The successful applicants will be part of the newly established Social and Cultural Geography research group which focusses on the transformation of cities and urban societies.