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“A breath of fresh air. *Cities Rethought* inspires while remaining rooted in the rhythms of urban life, the realities of setbacks and frustrations amidst the possibilities, and the practicalities of big and small gains.” Colin McFarlane And it’s out now ↓

The journal Urban Political Ecology (Sage) has now launched: the journal's official website can be found here: journals.sagepub.com/home/upe and the inaugural editorial here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/30… #urbanpoliticalecology

The last days of Walter Benjamin by Dan Hancox - moving piece on both the preoccupation with how Benjamin died, & the anonymity of so many unnamed deaths then and now: ft.com/content/fe8d0d…

Looking forward to a day of exciting and intense discussions on urban fragments, especially inspired by the work of Colin McFarlane

🚨 New Report 🚨 'Centripetal Cities: A critique of supply-side urban development' Given the Government's aim to 'unleash growth' we've drawn on over 3 years of research to think about the implications of this agenda for towns + cities Available here // sheffield.ac.uk/media/87471/do…

New paper by Vicky Habermehl & I on 'the density dialectic', open access in IJURR. Based on our research in London, we explore the value of a dialectical approach to density & densification onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

New #BookReview forum: For a Liberatory Politics of Home with Colin McFarlane, Prof Katherine Brickell, Erin McElroy and Saanchi featuring an author response from michele lancione Duke University Press buff.ly/4jXiM8e

New vacancy: We are recruiting Assistant Prof in Urban Environmental Geography w/ expertise in any of the following: urban political ecology; climate urbanism; Black geographies/ecologies; and/or environmental inequalities and justice. Deadline: 6-Apr. See jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/29…

So after, ahem, 18 years, this is published (South Asia edition in pipeline). A follow-up book, of sorts, looking at New&Old Delhi together, but as spaces of anticolonialism, with parrhesia as the governmentality framework, and a subaltern foci.See 🧵.. ugapress.org/book/978082036….

New in Urbanisation: Book review of Waste and the City: The Crisis of Sanitation and the Right to Citylife by Colin McFarlane. Read more at urbanisationjournal.com. #OnlineFirst

We’ve got a 3 year lecturership in human geog and gender at King’s now advertised. Deadline 6th May 2025 Please spread the word! jobs.ac.uk/job/DMS710/lec… GFGRG

How does density come to matter in urban change? This paper by Vicky Habermehl & I is in this issue of IJURR - setting out a dialectics of urban density based on our research in London. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

25 grad students will have accommodation provided (deadline June 9) for this fee-free Summer School, University of Bologna, Italy, Sept 8-12, "Dissonant memories: geographies of migration, colonialism and trauma". centri.unibo.it/memorylab/it/a… #unibo

On a sunny Friday morning, chuffed to learn that my book, Waste and the City, has been long listed for this cities award, by Metropolis :) metropolis.org/pattis-family-…. More info on the book here: versobooks.com/en-gb/products…

Density is central to what a city is and how it works. But how should we study its role in urban development? This paper proposes a ‘density dialectic’ to rethink urban change, grounded in research in London. By: Victoria Habermehl & Colin McFarlane 📖 tinyurl.com/729yuvts

Fresh off the press: Read the latest special issue of Urbanisation, curated by guest editors Isolde de Villiers and Julia Wesely, on 'Overlooked People, Places and Practices: Shifting the Gaze in Asian and South African Cities'. Visit bit.ly/3VPTzBF #SpecialIssue

The latest special issue of Urbanisation on 'Overlooked People, Places and Practices: Shifting the Gaze in Asian and South African Cities' is free to access all through July 2025. Read more at: urbanisationjournal.com/#currentissue #FreeAccess #SpecialIssue

My book 'Waste and the City' is listed here amongst 9 others for the 2025 Pattis Family Foundation Global Cities Book Award. Should you wish some additional summer reading :) metropolis.org/news/10-books-…

New paper on density - asking how residents experience everyday densities as 'resource', 'threshold', & imaginary of the urban future. Open access. Such a pleasure to work with wonderful colleagues in Dar es Salaam on this. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…