Panel Discussion: Emerging Urban Inequalities

This event Convened by the Urban Institute and Department of Urban Studies and Planningwith the Doctoral Training Centre for Emerging Urban Inequalities

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 panel discussion will include:

· Vanesa Castán Broto, Urban Institute

· Hannah Lewis, Department of Sociological Studies

· SJ Cooper-Knock, Department of Sociological Studies/Law

· Melanie Lombard, Department of Urban Studies and Planning

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

The Wave, The University of Sheffield, 2 Whitham Road, Sheffield, United Kingdom