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Ooooh, more spooky concepts. This time it's... The ‘zombie’ housing projects linked to Sydney’s housing crisis smh.com.au/politics/nsw/t… I've written about *Spooky Concepts and Urban Studies*: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

‘A spooky conceptual metaphor must be analytically powerful, otherwise it's just Halloween’. Good point. But should I have gone for ‘uncanny’ instead of ‘paradoxical’ that time I tackled the very odd idea of owner occupied #housing (tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…)?

Hot off the press! A summary of my PhD dissertation has just been published by Asia-Pacific Economic History Review: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… Yet another chance to thank my stellar supervisors, @AdamDavidMorton and Gareth Bryant, and examiners, Hannah Forsyth she/her 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.soci and Jason W. Moore

For the 'cyclists should pay to use the road' types I'm happy to pay if it is proportionate to the damage I do It would take a road bike 3,044 years of doing the same journey every day to damage the road as much as 1 journey in an SUV roaddamagecalculator.com H/T London Cycleway C3/CS3's Crowdsourced Count

This is so egregious & unethical. Academic publishing is already broken but even that doesn’t make selling the work of authors to AI training models without any upfront transparency, compensation, & opt-out okay on any level. It is deeply concerning! thebookseller.com/news/academic-…

Good to see the Australia Institute tackling the distortions in transport mode taxation and expenditure. Might the environmental movement finally be realising there is far more to zero-carbon sustainable transport than perpetuating car dependence through obsessive EV support?

New special issue article by Dallas Rogers, @SophiaMaalsen, Peta Wolifson & @FieldsDesiree: Proptech and the private rental sector: New forms of extraction at the intersection of #RentalProperties and platform rentierisation ow.ly/k66y50SNJj5 #BuiltToRent #digital #OA

Focusing on the #housing, and technological property in Australia’s #PrivateRental system, Dallas Rogers @SophiaMaalsen, Peta Wolifson & @FieldsDesiree develop a picture of the various actors, their property, and how they are using #Proptech ow.ly/k66y50SNJj5 #OpenAccess

My department is hiring! We’re looking for a geographer working on displacement and migration, w/ a focus on environmental, political, and economic drivers. Also countermapping/data justice methods a plus. I’m on the hiring committee if you have questions! apply.interfolio.com/152204

With the new Metro now running in #Sydney, there's lots of talk about 'what's next?' for public transport. Here's my pitch: do like @swelteringcity says, and fix the bus stops! theconversation.com/sydneys-shiny-…

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Walk the city with us… 🚶🏻🚶🏽‍♀️ Over the last few months @cait_morr Katie Melbourne and I have been busy recording on the streets with key authors + editors from Urban Studies Journal, to take urbanists out of their papers and #walkthetalk in #urbantheory Listen in! urbanstudiesonline.com/podcast/

You’ve read our authors in the Journal, but what do they sound like #onthestreet? #WalkingTheCityWith kicks off the brand new #UrbanStudiespodcast with Colin McFarlane @thatjulieren Dallas Rogers Shenjing He zahratu shabrina Michael Batty and @sergemont urbanstudiesonline.com/podcast/

Spooky concepts, #RealEstate and a quietness with an edge In episode 3 of our #WalkingTheCityWith miniseries @cait_morr & ᴍɪᴄʜᴇʟᴇ ᴀᴄᴜᴛᴏ walk the city with the #urbanpodcasting maestro Dallas Rogers, talking sounds and silences ow.ly/xTv950Tk4es #UrbanStudiespodcast

This one was a special one with someone who’s been a whole lot of inspiration for all amateur #urbanstudies #podcasters out there. With a beautiful(ly unexpected) moment of reflection on “quietness with an edge” Ladies and lads: Dallas Rogers on #WalkingTheCityWith 📻👇🏽

Contributions from Alistair Sisson, Dallas Rogers and Chris Gibson, Elizabeth Duncan Elizabeth Duncan, Ellen Burke, Laurence Troy, Pratichi Chatterjee, @SophiaMaalsen, Sophie Webber, Wendy Murray Wendy Murray, and me. Illustrations by Wendy Murray. See: sydneyweneedtotalk.com/chapters

The November 2024 special issue on 'The New Private Urban Governance' features papers by @qurbanist Shenjing He cairong Dallas Rogers @SophiaMaalsen @FieldsDesiree and many more journals.sagepub.com/toc/usja/61/14

Proptech and the private rental sector: New forms of extraction at the intersection of #RentalProperties and platform rentierisation by Dallas Rogers, @SophiaMaalsen, Peta Wolifson & @FieldsDesiree ow.ly/blQ650TSrZg #OpenAccess #BuiltToRent