Interdisciplinary Talks: Understanding Emerging Urban Inequalities

The Urban Institute at the University of Sheffield addresses some of the major social, economic and environmental challenges facing our cities today and in the future.

Urban Institute

This session will be delivered by Tanzil Shafique, School of Architecture and Nabeela Ahmed, Department of Geography

The Wave, The University of Sheffield

This event Convened by the Urban Institute and Department of Urban Studies and Planning and the Doctoral Training Centre for Emerging Urban Inequalities.It will take place in workroom 3 of the Wave Building, The University of Sheffield.With more than half of humanity living in cities, our global-urban condition is increasingly diagnosed by the social sciences as a generator of deepening inequalities, poverty, social injustice and intersecting forms of exclusion. These challenges are nested within significant questions of urban governance, the relationship of cities to wider environments and to infrastructural risks. Recent urban super-heating events, the current energy crisis and significant fracture lines around race and gender highlight these challenges. Meanwhile a complex constellation of social, economic, political and health conditions have also been heavily impacted by COVID-19 in urban settings. The pandemic has appeared to distil a range of inequalities into even more toxic forms as social problems and stresses take hold in many cities. The resulting challenges include patterns of forced migration and refuge, housing overcrowding or loss, diverse environmental challenges, gendered vulnerabilities, compromised mental health outcomes, intergenerational tensions, discrimination and hate. These issues and many others are the intensifying signatures of our contemporary and forward urban condition.This session will be delivered by Tanzil Shafique, School of Architecture and Nabeela Ahmed, Department of Geography.

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