CfP: Reading “The City” a Hundred Years Later. Gabriele d'Annunzio University of Chieti - Pescara, Italy. March 28-29, 2025. Submissions: December 31, 2024. sites.google.com/view/thecityco… #urban #sociology

We just had a fantastic seminar with Mara Ferreri @maraferreri.bsky.social, focusing on her research of housing commons, new cooperativism and urban precarity, paying special attention to ongoing processes and initiatives in Catalonia -- thank you!!

Biomes are history! Welcome to Anthromes! 🌆🌾 🌍 From urban jungles to cropland vistas, humans have reshaped the planet so much that we’ve created our own ecosystems. Nature+Humanity=Anthromes. The Anthropocene in action. #Anthromes #Ecology #ScienceFacts anthroecology.org/anthromes/guid…

Ο Ντέιβιντ Μαντεν διατυπώνει την αποψη ότι οι πόλεις μας είναι εξαντλητικές. Όχι μόνο λόγω της αλλαγής των συνθηκών εργασίας, αλλά και εξαιτίας της ακριβείας και της μετατροπής των πόλεων σε κερδοσκοπικό προϊόν. Συνέντευξη στην Η ΚΑΘΗΜΕΡΙΝΗ kathimerini.gr/society/563374…

Hybrid Seminar on Critical Mapping: 17 January 2025 Barcelona. Lecture by Philippe Rekacewicz: Radical Cartography: Beyond Representing the World, a Social and Political Act. espaiscritics.org/2025/01/02/sem… #urban #sociology

Just a reminder that this delightful website exists: anvaka.github.io/city-roads/ thanks to Andrei Kashcha 🇺🇦. Visualize all roads within any city, in your browser.

Six years before Lex Fridman launched his first podcast, I ran an interview series at MIT called Cambridge Nights. While we never reached the same heights, the series was featured in the New York Times and earned a couple of Webby award nominations. We had remarkable guests and

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

'Put it into Blender and see what happens' #4 Bivariate maps showing the relationships between Temperature and Precipitation. (Monthly data since 1958 by TerraClimate) observablehq.com/@joewdavies/bi… #maps #blender #climate #sciart #cartography #gis

Authored by Mike Davis in 2007, one of the founding editorial board members of Human Geography——Mike Davis · California Burns: California Burns lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v29/…

Call for papers for RGS-IBG 2025 conference session on environmental justice We are inviting contributions to our RGS-IBG 2025 conference session on environmental justice sheffield.ac.uk/urban-institut…

This is fun, a kajillion years ago I made a map of hurricanes for National Geographic magazine. They asked for digital assets to use in an animated version but I never saw it. Just stumbled on it now!

Trump's decision to open the floodgates to more oil and gas exploration to address the cost of living crisis is of course economically bunk. No fossil fuel producer will bring more of their product to market if it reduces its price. 1/6

We're delighted to be formally launching Sheffield Urbanism next week with a series of public events (alongside internal workshops to cook up future plans...) All of the below are open to the public, see below for details on how to sign up!

Consider IJURR if you're working on a journal symposium or special issue in urban and regional studies. Proposal deadlines May 1 and November 1. More information here: ijurr.org/wp-content/upl…

Reclaim the University! In this interventions piece in IJURR.org, we make the simple call to action that, it is no longer sufficient to recognize epistemic injustices.. a rebellion of the everyday is required to cut through the oppressive institutional territorializations

Hot off the digital press, my article in Antipode on Social Reproduction and the Housing Question onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/an…

New research by Nitin Bathla @nitin-bathla.bsky.social examines the #authoritarianism and social fragmentation inherent in the state’s attempts to extend infrastructure-led urbanisation into economically bypassed regions ow.ly/uytx50UNGj8 #InfrastructureState #StateSpace #ExtendedUrbanisation

Very excited to announce that Carbon Colonialism will be released in paperback this May! Hoping to kick start further conversations around the environmental politics of our global factory Watch this space for more developments...

Much of the world runs on informal transport networks. However, it's difficult to assess how efficient these are. To find out, a new study examines 7,000 bus routes in 36 cities across 22 countries. The results will surprise you: