10 November 2025
Drawing on 15 years’ experience in Rwanda and Uganda, the Feilden Foundation has created a School Design Guide for East African countries alongside Enabel – the Belgian Agency for International Cooperation, Localworks Uganda, Buro Happold and Grant Associates . Developed primarily for Uganda and Rwanda, the guide presents...
A new publication by our faculty members is out now in the prestigious Royal Society journal
6 November 2025
The department congratulates faculty members Dr Ramit Debnath, Professor Ronita Bardhan and PhD candidate Fengyuan (Simon) Han on publishing a cutting-edge causal machine learning research on the nighttime impacts of heatwaves on hyperdense Global South cities in the prestigious Philosophical Transactions of the Royal...
New Publication: 'Routledge Critical Companion to Race and Architecture' by Dr Felipe Hernández
3 November 2025
Felipe Hernández, Associate Professor of Architecture and urban Studies, announces the launch of the Routledge Critical Companion to Race and Architecture. The volume expands the discourse on racializing concepts and categories beyond the traditional Africa–North America axis, examining many issues that have been...
Healthy Greater Cambridge Report Launch by the Cambridge Room
30 October 2025
As part of our continued involvement in the future of our city Flora Samuel and the team at Cambridge Room Research launched their Healthy Greater Cambridge Report , the data within it forming an important baseline for their work going forward. The report was written by Mark Drane of Urban Habitats and illustrated...
30 October 2025
John Nguyen completed his MPhil in Urban Studies in 2025. His dissertation explored the integration of acoustic metamaterials (AMMs) into architectural design, with the aim of transforming traditional open-plan workplace environments into acoustically optimised, multi-zoned spaces. His research positioned AMMs as pivotal...