Our recent Animated Urbanism competition offered University of Manchester researchers, keen to disseminate their work to wider audiences, the opportunity to turn their findings into a short animation made by Toasted Productions.

We received a high volume of quality entries from across multiple academic disciplines. We are very pleased to announce the winners:

• Federico Cugurullo: Unveiling the Eco-city phenomenon: is this the (urban) future?
• Stephen Hincks: Uneven geographies of austerity urbanism
• Deljana Iossifova: Shanghai: sanitation, differentiation and inequality
• Chris Shannahan: Urban social exclusion and graffiti spiritualities
• Erik Swyngedouw & Japhy Wilson: The post-political city and the insurgent polis

Check out the fantastic animations, along with the rest of the series, on the cities@manchester website: www.cities.manchester.ac.uk/resources/animation/

Posted on behalf of Laura Partridge, Co-ordinator, cities@manchester