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Philip Lawton

@phillawton

Assistant Prof, Trinity College Dublin | Urban Geography | Social Media Editor for @RegionalStudies | Course Director, MSc, Smart & Sustainable Cities

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A further analysis of how a utopian city ideal has shifted from run of the mill low tax enclave to one dominated by a mix of AI-driven historicism, and Fascist imagery: rundale.org/2025/04/24/the…

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A small group of traders earned a $99.6mn windfall by buying Melania Trump’s cryptocurrency token in the minutes before it was made public, an analysis by the Financial Times has found. on.ft.com/3SkBVVc

A small group of traders earned a $99.6mn windfall by buying Melania Trump’s cryptocurrency token in the minutes before it was made public, an analysis by the Financial Times has found. on.ft.com/3SkBVVc
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Hard to square the breathless enthusiasm from pundit types about the inevitable need for fleets of data centers for AI with the fact that its main use case so far seems to be making growing numbers of people unable to read, write, think critically and relate to other human beings

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BREAKING: Pearl Jam lead singer Eddie Vedder broke out an acoustic rendition of Bruce Springsteen's "My City of Ruins" at their show last night to support Springsteen in his fight against Donald Trump. This is awesome. America is waking up.

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Vienna is the global capital of social housing, and is regularly ranked as the world's most livable city. Our new report, featured in this NPR exclusive, explores Vienna’s green social housing—home to the majority of its renters—and how it can work here npr.org/2025/06/15/nx-…

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Philip Lawton gil duran "Praxis is not so much a city as an isolated thought process laid bare". Quite. And they don't mention the workers who are needed to work those farms, clean their bathrooms or mow their lawns.

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Songdo in South Korea emerges instead as a case study in the disconnect between rhetoric and lived experience. Our French pick of the week details how the city's digital infrastructure remains largely invisible, unused, or subverted. By Suzanne Peyrard buff.ly/q5TEbSR

Songdo in South Korea emerges instead as a case study in the disconnect between rhetoric and lived experience. Our French pick of the week details how the city's digital infrastructure remains largely invisible, unused, or subverted.

By Suzanne Peyrard

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"My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people." - Omer Bartov, professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University. nytimes.com/2025/07/15/opi…

"My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people." - Omer Bartov, professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University.

nytimes.com/2025/07/15/opi…