Listen to the full episode here www.buzzsprout.com/2451716/epis...

On Urban Radar's latest feature - chaos and desire A double book talk with @tshafique.bsky.social Tanya Zack in convo with @itsbethperry.bsky.social and @goodfellowtom.bsky.social as usual www.buzzsprout.com/2451716/epis...

I have a new short piece out in Environment and Planning A journal 'The multipolarity and geo-politics of climate finance' A response to Bryant and Webber's (amazing) book: Climate Finance: Taking a Position on Climate Futures journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

We've worked with the Geographical Association to develop some school learning materials for A-Level students to think through financialisation, displacement, gentrification etc 'Post-industrial urban change in the UK: A Manchester case study' geography.org.uk/resources/po...

Global Corridor newsletter #12 "Bomb/Blockade/Bypass" is focused on the emerging geographies of the infrastructural blockade and attempts at establishing bypass infrastructures. globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...

🚨New Paper - Uncertain refuge: experiences of tenure security in a precarious housing system. Qualitative paper examining ontological security among the remaining rent-controlled tenants in England's PRS. Published online in Housing Studies. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

On #UrbanRadar this month, we talk to Hannah Sender & Mariam Bazzi about the effects of seemingly endless military violence in #Lebanon on housing for displaced people. We also consider the #Beirut Urban Lab’s wider work, including tracking ‘urbicide’ in Gaza. Plus our usual monthly news radar…

It was a total pleasure to have @ctemenos.bsky.social on #UrbanRadar to talk about her work on #crisis #policymaking, public health and the city with me and @itsbethperry.bsky.social. From social infrastructures to the politics of expertise, listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/2451716/epis...

Last shout out to join us for tomorrow's workshop, from 2pm at Site Gallery, Sheffield 'Sensorial Methodologies, Extended Urbanization; sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...

Celebrating Greens winning by-election

The Infrastructural Geography of the US/Israel War on Iran… …From data centres to logistical bottlenecks, supply chains to real estate markets, shipping to petroleum networks globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...

One for the weekend Would you... Could you... Should you get in a self-driving taxi? As London gears up for its first trial, #UrbanRadar discusses the promise and pitfalls of robotic urban infrastructure with Aidan While With @goodfellowtom.bsky.social and @itsbethperry.bsky.social as usual

New podcast episode now available URBAN ROBOTICS BY STEALTH open.spotify.com/episode/1dYQ... plus a range of other issues as usual All recorded before the weekend - how things change With Aidan While, @itsbethperry.bsky.social and @goodfellowtom.bsky.social

Sensorial Methodologies, Extended Urbanization This workshop, incorporating film screening, book launch and panel discussion, brings together urban researchers exploring the geographies of extended and planetary urbanization through visual based methodologies. sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...

Catch up with the latest urban radar podcast ... Here's a sneak peek of @felipemagallhaes.bsky.social @xuniamortimer.bsky.social @ctemenos.bsky.social @itsbethperry.bsky.social @goodfellowtom.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/6mXj...

We have a new paper in @ijurresearch.bsky.social ‘ 'EVERYTHING IS BEING DISTURBED’: Unsettling the Spaces of Global Infrastructure along the Northern Corridor Special economic zones, railway projects + more with Sydney Nsubuga onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

Our new piece out today in Times Higher Education about the threats to Geography in the UK - particularly fieldwork - please do share. It links to a recent snapshot survey on the challenges being faced in UK HE, which highlights the inequities of the challenges, but also fears of what is yet to come

My GlobalCORRIDOR newsletter 9 is out now Featuring.... New Horn of Africa corridor, the 'Lobito model', Alphabet's digital $15 billion investment in India, EXIM Bank's outstanding $289bn loans, new maritime based readings, data centre film globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...

Lots of new excitement about the 'Manchester model' but it's built an extractive economy that benefits capital, not labour. Read our data-led report "Centripetal Cities A critique of supply-side urban development" - t.co/Dec4wIkGGe

Catch up on my Global Corridor newsletter #8 featuring... US races for DRC minerals, return of the Trans-Saharan pipeline? JD Vance’s TRIPP, tensions on the Panama canal, Italian tunnels, riding the Mauritania Railway, Silicon Elsewhere + Lunar roads 👉 tinyurl.com/5x64u25w

How can we see and understand complex and volatile cities? How might we use and analyse photographs and archives in urban research? Listen to latest #urbanradar podcast with @xuniamortimer.bsky.social and @felipemagallhaes.bsky.social With @itsbethperry.bsky.social @goodfellowtom.bsky.social

Global Corridor newsletter #8 is out now featuring... US races for DRC minerals, the return of the Trans-Saharan pipeline? JD Vance’s TRIPP, more tensions on the Panama canal, Italian train tunnels, Mauritania Railway, Silicon Elsewhere and Lunar roads lnkd.in/duf4gE4K

CfP RGS-IBG 2026: Cities in the Disinformation Age? sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...

Global Corridor newsletter 7 is out now featuring... New book on the Belt and Road Initiative, Burkina's revolutionary road, Destiny, a new special economic zone in the Caribbean, Foster design transport hub in Poland, Venezuelan oil, Pakistani railways globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...

📅 Join us online on Thursday 19 February 10-11am GMT as we introduce the Non-Decent Index (NDI), a free tool that identifies hotspots of Decent Homes failure in England. 📝 Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rolling-ou...

Thank you to everyone at the @thetcpa.bsky.social who helped with this event, especially Hugh Ellis and Jeanette Aves. We had a packed room, eager to talk about renewing the purpose for planning. We're looking forward to taking the purpose we created out to the wider world!

For anyone physically in Sheffield on Tuesday 3rd February we have some places for our screening of @gabrielsilvestre.bsky.social film A Place in the City Check out details here sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...

SERIES TWO of Urban Radar now available on all usual streaming platforms Check out latest offering from @itsbethperry.bsky.social and @goodfellowtom.bsky.social with guest Erika Garcia Fermin www.buzzsprout.com/2451716/epis... #Greenland #Iran #Venezuela #neighbourhoods #disinformation #embassies

Compelling set of outputs from our colleagues at the Karachi Urban Lab including a new film and report - download them below

Check out this podcast episode from Urban Studies journal with @invisiblemapper.bsky.social A great insight into Jon's work and the GlobalCORRIDOR project

Here's the wrap up of #urbanradar for 2025! open.spotify.com/episode/76iH... - #Bogota's care blocks - #Subtervising - Scrapping trial by #jury - #US #Security Strategy - #Australia's #social #media ban - #Syrian cities one year on @itsbethperry.bsky.social @goodfellowtom.bsky.social

Sneaky listen of Julia Moses talking with @goodfellowtom.bsky.social and @itsbethperry.bsky.social on #urbanradar About child labour and urban and rural dimensions drawing on her project @glosoc.bsky.social

Learnt so much chatting with Julia and Dani on the latest #urbanradar podcast open.spotify.com/episode/4JFq... And quite a bit of lying on my part (though I do actually like elephants)

Free book! Download now if you're interested in the material geographies of the belt and road initiative @invisiblemapper.bsky.social @itsbethperry.bsky.social And listen to Jon talking about some of the work on the #urbanradar podcast here open.spotify.com/episode/4xGv...

On mansion taxes and why they aren't enough ... according to @drabioconnor.bsky.social

If you've not signed up, check out the Global Corridor newsletter here ... Critical geopolitical reading of forces shaping urban worlds @theurbaninstitute.bsky.social @invisiblemapper.bsky.social @itsbethperry.bsky.social @drabioconnor.bsky.social @eyeofraf.bsky.social @callumny.bsky.social

Another episode of #urbanradar now available, just in time for weekend listening RADAR 11: CHILD LABOUR AND DISINFORMATION With Julia Moses and Dani Madrid-Morales And of course @goodfellowtom.bsky.social & @itsbethperry.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/4JFq... @unishefplayer.bsky.social

Latest Urban Radar podcast is out Feature 10: CHINA, THE GLOBAL INFRASTRUCTURE RACE AND ITS URBAN IMPACTS - A panel with Jon Silver, Zhengli Huang and Linda Westman www.buzzsprout.com/2451716/epis...

And he won! For some insight into how @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social got there, listen to the discussion from July with @katiepruszynski.bsky.social, @itsbethperry.bsky.social and @goodfellowtom.bsky.social Full episode here open.spotify.com/episode/2GhJ... Skip to 25:10 for more

Join us for a full day of mobilisation at the University of Sheffield on 11/11/2025 from 11am to 4pm (no need to register) Programme and more information here: sheffield.ac.uk/migration-re...

@un-habitat.bsky.social World Cities Day! And another episode of #urbanradar open.spotify.com/episode/3VgE... Tune in for @goodfellowtom.bsky.social and @itsbethperry.bsky.social talking @zackpolanski.bsky.social with @mattflinders.bsky.social, & Gaza reconstruction with Said Zaaneen

Another taster of the latest #UrbanRadar feature on Humanity's Urban Future with Ash Amin, @goodfellowtom.bsky.social and @itsbethperry.bsky.social @britishacademy.bsky.social @unishefplayer.bsky.social

Listen to this clip of @xazaaradjame.bsky.social in conversation with @itsbethperry.bsky.social and @goodfellowtom.bsky.social with Ash Amin, drawing on work for @britishacademy.bsky.social and CIFAR @michelelancione.bsky.social @theurbaninstitute.bsky.social

A very special episode of #UrbanRadar #podcast to share this Urban October. open.spotify.com/episode/20A1... HUMANITY'S URBAN FUTURE with @xazaaradjame.bsky.social and Ash Amin Featuring work funded by CIFAR with the @britishacademy.bsky.social

“That’s the biggest misunderstanding in this country of the housing crisis. That it’s a crisis reserved for the poorest people in insecure jobs…” @drabioconnor.bsky.social talks to BBC Panorama’s Anita Rani as part of their investigation into the UK housing crisis. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Check out this excellent interview given by @drabioconnor.bsky.social to #PoliticsLive on mass displacement and rent rises in Manchester

Catch up here with @theurbaninstitute.bsky.social as it celebrates 10 years of urban research @sheffielduni.bsky.social

My Global Corridor newsletter #5 is out now This issue features stories, data, opinion + academic work from Pakistani ports to Russia in Sudan to Middle Eastern railways to the longest film ever (on logistics).... globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...

Looking forward to The World Transformed Festival of radical politics, art and culture kicking off tomorrow... I'm involved in two sessions, a panel looking at the power of Abu Dhabi in the UK/MCR + a walking tour of financialised MCR More info here theworldtransformed.org/twt25/twt25p...

And here's @simonrushton.bsky.social chatting to the very same @goodfellowtom.bsky.social and @itsbethperry.bsky.social on Nepal's uprising and local peace-building processes in Colombia