Urban Radar

• Episode 1: <<RADAR>> Human Rights for Mountains//Urban Conflict in the Eastern Congo//USAID Cuts//Young People, Mental Health and Schools. <<FEATURE>> Cities and Climate Change

  On this month's Urban Radar, Beth & Tom zoom in on:Why recognising the rights of a New Zealand mountain is an urban issue Conflict in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and its impacts on the city of GomaHow cutting US international development funding will impact cities Whether ‘more-than-schools’ can offer community level responses to the crisis in young people and children’s mental healthWaste tipping in Litchfield, UKAnd in our Special Feature (24:20) on Cities and Climate Change, they are joined by Vanesa Castán Broto and David Dodman, two external authors of the UN-Habitat World Cities Report to discuss:What role do cities and local governments have in addressing climate change?Which communities are impacted most by climate change? What is a just transition? How do formal and informal systems support or hinder low carbon action? What are the limits and possibilities of action at local, national and international levels?To find out more about the research featured in this podcast, follow Sheffield Urbanism on LinkedIn, or Bluesky, Instagram @urbanradarpodcast or visit www.sheffield.ac.uk/urban-institute Host/speaker biographies:Tom Goodfellow is Professor of Urban Studies and International Development in the School of Geography and Planning at the University of Sheffield.  His research focuses on the political economy of urban development and change in Africa, particularly the politics of urban land and transportation, conflicts around infrastructure and housing, and urban institutional change.Beth Perry is Professor of Urban Epistemics and Director of the Urban Institute at the University of Sheffield. Her research focuses on the relationships between urban expertise, governance and justice, underpinned by a commitment to co-producing collective intelligence across multiple scales to address complex urban challenges.Vanesa Castán Broto is Professor of Climate Urbanism at the University of Sheffield. Her research focuses on the governance of global environmental change in an age of urbanization. She leads the JustGESI project which aims to advance equality and inclusion in community energy projects and policy frameworks, by addressing the skills gaps that have historically kept women and marginalised groups out of the clean energy economy.David Dodman is the General Director at The Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS) at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, a key global institution on education, research and policy work on urban development since its foundation 65 years ago. He has worked on sustainable urban development research in universities and research institutes for the past 20 years. His research interests focus on urban climate change resilience and informality.Episode credits:Podcast production, presentation & editing: Tom Goodfellow & Beth PerryPost-production editing & marketing: Polly CliftonProduction support: Jack ClaytonSheffield Urbanism editing advice: Linda WestmanDistribution, promotion & marketing: Riya Singh and Vicky SimpsonMusic: Horizon (music by Tom Goodfellow, recorded & produced by Alan Thomson); Falling Down (music by Tom Goodfellow, performed by the Dice, produced by Alan Thomson) Supported by the Faculty of Social Science at the University of SheffieldThanks to the Creative Media Suite at University of Sheffield. Feedback: [email protected]

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• Urban Radar: Trailer

  Podcast production, presentation and editing: Tom Goodfellow and Beth Perry Post-production editing and marketing: Polly CliftonTraining and production support: Jack ClaytonSheffield Urbanism editing advice: Linda WestmanDistribution, promotion and marketing: Riya Singh and Vicky SimpsonMusic: Horizon (original music by Tom Goodfellow, recorded and produced by Alan Thomson)Podcast Cover: Dan Farley DesignsTRANSCRIPT:Hello, I'm Tom Goodfellow, Professor of International Development at the University of Sheffield; and I'm Beth Perry, Professor of Urban Epistemics and Director of the Urban Institute at the University of Sheffield.We would like to tell you about our brand new podcast series, Urban Radar, brought to you by Sheffield Urbanism. In each episode of this podcast we will reflect on current events and emerging trends through the lens of cities and urban life.With the news dominated by international and civil conflicts, global economic crises, planetary climate change, threats to democracy, the rise of AI and a new era of superpower competition, it’s easy to lose sight of how most people experience these things locally - and specifically, in the context of cities and towns.Those most affected by the economic turbulence, social exclusion, political upheavals and conflicts we are seeing globally are often city dwellers. And, importantly, the solutions to many of the challenges we face can, and must, emerge at the local and urban scale. In this podcast we centre perspectives from cities, towns and their residents within  current affairs. And we do so by drawing on the unique range of urban expertise in and beyond the Faculty of Social Science at the University of Sheffield, UK.Sheffield Urbanism is a community of researchers working in a range of ‘urban’ fields - including planning, geography, architecture, education, politics, sociology and management. Many of us also engage in professional practice, policy-influencing and activism. Our research community is united by a commitment to achieving urban social justice and analysing what hinders or helps realise this ambition. In each episode we will scan the news in order to bring you unique urban perspectives into the issues that shape our world. We will invite members of our research community to provide evidence-based informed insights into the ways that cities and urban communities are impacted by, driving and responding to current events.We will also include special features that profile cutting-edge research and analysis happening within and beyond the Sheffield Urbanism community, linking these to some of the overarching questions that we hope to explore through this podcast series. These questions include: How can urban research help to build solidarity and a sense of belonging in the face of rising individualism, consumerism, and capital accumulation?How can we foster place-based innovation to harness technological developments as tools to address inequalities between different groups within and across urban areas? What potential does urban political mobilisation have to transform power relations in a world characterised by authoritarianism and oligarchy? And what are its limits?Whose knowledge and expertise - human, non-human and artificial - gets to determine the way we live together in urban space?How can and do urban communities re-imagine cities as spaces of environmental justice and sustainable inhabitation?Join us each month as we attempt to decode some of the events and issues on our urban radar - and if you want to know more, follow Sheffield Urbanism on LinkedIn and Bluesk

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