✨ I’m pleased to share that I’ve been appointed Professor of Just Urban Futures in the Dept. of Geography and Environment at @lborouniversity.bsky.social I’m also excited to work with the Climate Compatible Growth #CCG team, who are pretty radical in their impact. It's been a warm first week :)

📣 New papers on polycentric urban regions! gawc.lboro.ac.uk/new-papers-o...

Learn more about @lborouniversity.bsky.social's new Master's in Climate, Energy and Humanitarian Action, developed and delivered together with @unitar.bsky.social 💻 Register for an open webinar at unitar.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Excited that our #network data sharing recommendations have received a commendation from SIPS! Read the recommendations 👉 www.zacharyneal.com/datasharing Endorse the recommendations 👉 forms.gle/sgpjyUnkufJF...

Loughborough now has its own TOWN Observatory gawc.lboro.ac.uk/town-observa... - a great cross-campus initiative!

The Rise of the Platform Music Industries, written by me and @allanwatson1.bsky.social, was formally published yesterday. The physical version is available from all good bookshops (as well as a few bad ones). It’s also available as an an Open Access pdf): www.agendapub.com/page/detail/...

Excited for @sunbelt2025paris.bsky.social next week? While you get ready, be sure to check out the new @insna.bsky.social recommendations on sharing your network data.

The Department of Geography and Environment @lborouniversity.bsky.social is launching the MSc Climate Change, Energy and Humanitarian Action, a brand-new distance learning programme co-designed and delivered with @unitar.bsky.social. 💻 Register for an open webinar at unitar.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🚨 We’re hiring at Loughborough! 🚨 This is a strategic investment in teams of academic staff focused on Research & Innovation. Ready to help shape the future of your field and of a top 10 UK university? www.lboro.ac.uk/join-us/acad...

Come and work @lborouniversity.bsky.social from 1st September: 12-month full time and fixed term UT in Human Geography, following my BA fellowship news - it's a great department! Closing date 22/06 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNH236/u...

Gentle reminder! The deadline to apply for the 2025 #USFInternationalFellowships grant is approaching soon. 📅 16th July 2024. This fully-funded program offers 3-9 month research visits for urban scholars from the Global South. Apply now: ow.ly/gAbM50VYLJj

@lborouniversity.bsky.social is recruiting! A brilliant opportunity for outstanding researchers to join as Professor/Reader: www.lboro.ac.uk/join-us/acad... Apply via one of six strategic areas to build or grow a world-class research team, including in our Department of Geography and Environment!

This spring marks a turning point for us at @yorkuniversity.bsky.social as @rkeil.bsky.social and Linda Peake retire after 30+ yrs shaping critical urban scholarship. To honour them, we’re launching 2 endowment funds for early scholars💥. If you've been inspired by them: www.yorku.ca/cityinstitut...

Mise à jour : Le classement des villes mondiales/globales du GaWC @gawc.bsky.social geoconfluences.ens-lyon.fr/actualites/v...

Excellent new visualisation of cities in globalisation published in @financeandspace.bsky.social by Yue Wang, Thomas Sigler and Julia Loginova gawc.lboro.ac.uk/visualisatio...

New book published: "A Historical Social Science of Modernity's Climate Catastrophe: We are Earth's Rogue Species" by Peter J. Taylor gawc.lboro.ac.uk/new-book-a-h...

Pop into this at #AAG2025 on Monday and stay for the Q&A, y'all! ✨

TL;DR? You can find a short summary, and a link to endorse the recommendations yourself, here: www.zacharyneal.com/datasharing

I'm speaking next week Weds 26th 1300 at online RSA webinar "Legal Geography for Regions and Cities: A Place-first Approach' lounge.regionalstudies.org/Meetings/Mee...

Christof Parnreiter's latest book, The Wealth of Cities and the Poverty of Nations @agendapub.bsky.social, reviewed by @bdrudder.bsky.social @regionalstudies.bsky.social, David Bassens (The AAG Review of Book) and Bernd Belina (Geographica Helvetica) gawc.lboro.ac.uk/reviews-of-t...

Five years after. As good a day as any to point out that seeing COVID-19 like a city helps understand its causes and effects: www.wiley.com/en-gb/Pandem...

“Timely and refreshing... recalibrating the debate about cities and (uneven) development... a must read.” David Bassens reviews 'The Wealth of Cities and the Poverty of Nations' by Christof Parnreiter in the AAG Review of Books 👇 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @geographers.bsky.social

These recommendations have now been endorsed by @icpsr.bsky.social, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social, @gawc.bsky.social, @socialdevelopment.bsky.social, @networkscijournal.bsky.social, @yrcss.bsky.social and many others. Learn more and become an endorser at www.zacharyneal.com/datasharing

#CallforPapers: #UrbanStudies journal encourages #DebatesPaper submissions with rigorous and critical dialogue with existing perspectives and traditions in #UrbanResearch with new and provocative insights on the urban condition. https://buff.ly/4k3XgPu

GaWC is pleased to endorse the Recommendations for Sharing Network Data and Materials, published by an @insna.bsky.social working group. You can learn more about these recommendations, and become an endorser too, at www.zacharyneal.com/datasharing

Today we launch our new report "CreaTech: How the fusion of emerging technologies and the Creative Industries can transform the UK's approach to skills, innovation and business", commissioned by The Royal Anniversary Trust and DCMS. royalanniversarytrust.org.uk/wp-content/u...

#CallforPapers: #CriticalCommentaries in #UrbanStudies We invite short, topical think-pieces addressing key questions concerning the economic, social and political life of cities and the conceptual and theoretical challenges raised. Further details here: https://buff.ly/40Qrix5

The @insna.bsky.social working group's Recommendations for Sharing Network Data and Materials are now published in #NetworkScience. You can read the recommendations and join as an endorser at www.zacharyneal.com/datasharing

Two new additions to the Cambridge Elements in Global Urban History series just dropped: Ambe J. Njoh's Africa in Urban History and Ian Morley's The City Beautiful and the Globalization of Urban Planning are free online thru 2/27! www.cambridge.org/core/element... www.cambridge.org/core/element...

📘 Coming soon: "Critical Planning Futures - New Directions in Planning" (May 2025) 📖 Includes chapter with Miriam Jensen, Daniel Galland on "The mistreatment of time in planning theory: Towards planning beyond the clock in a world increasingly out-of-sync" www.routledge.com/Critical-Pla...

Blog about my new book, "World Cities in History," and why I picked that great cover art... Special thanks to @cambridgeup.bsky.social #globalcities #urbanhistory

Inspired by @michielvanmeeteren.bsky.social's Human Geography journal starter pack, here is our related one on journals in Urban and Regional Studies go.bsky.app/FxbiSKS

I made a starter pack of Human Geography Journals, for those of you (like me) for whom BSKY is a nice help in keeping up with the literature. Feel free to tip for me any journals I may have missed. go.bsky.app/Hw9i9br

A review symposium of our book Pandemic Urbanism was just published in Urban Studies: www.urbanstudiesonline.com/review/book-...

My new book, "World Cities in History: Urban Networks from Ancient Mesopotamia to the Dutch Empire," is released! Paperback available. Delighted to work with the wonderful team at @cambridgeup.bsky.social. #urbanhistory #globalhistory #globalcities #internationalrelations Info here:

Cultural place-making in East London. Fully-funded PhD opportunity! www.lboro.ac.uk/study/postgr...

How can we research the super rich? In their recent Finance & Space article, Rowland Atkinson, Katie Higgins & Jonathan Bourne pioneer machine learning methods to profile the global urban elite

We recently published the 2024 edition of our long-established city classification www.lboro.ac.uk/news-events/... #geosky #geographyteacher #cities #urban

🚨We're recruiting a new Director of the Urban Studies Institute at GSU. This is a great opportunity to lead an interdisciplinary urban studies unit in the heart of downtown #Atlanta! I'm chairing the search so reach out if you have Qs & please share widely: facultycareers.gsu.edu/postings/5053

New item in lborogeog cabinet of curiosities alongside fabulous 1st year student map. Represents our current research project exploring place belonging among new arrivals to Loughborough / first-year teaching of @allanwatson1.bsky.social looking at sense of place www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/geo...

We have extended our starter pack on global urban researchers and institutions... go.bsky.app/TU4z6Q4

A super day yesterday with our MSc International Financial and Political Relations students exploring London’s international financial centre.

Recently awarded a PhD on cities, regions, planning, governance? Or just about to finish? Consider a Loughborough University ESRC postdoctoral fellowship @gawc.bsky.social Full info and forms warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa... Internal EOI deadline is 6 Jan 25. Please email or DM me if interested

We recently published the 2024 edition of our long-established city classification www.lboro.ac.uk/news-events/... #geosky #geographyteacher #cities #urban

My Sheffield Urbanism 2024 Lecture series ‘Global Corridor: Techno-Territorial Constellations on a Transforming Planet’ is now available to watch online The Urban Histories of the Corridor (youtube.com/watch?v=dDCi...) Corridor urbanisation - A new global geography? (youtube.com/watch?v=yBbL...)

Another interesting and not so well-known Open-Access journal is "Raumforschung und Raumordnung | Spatial Research and Planning". The latest issue has interesting reviews of Christian Schmid´s latest book on Henri Lefebvre. rur.oekom.de/index.php/ru... #urban #sociology

pls share: funded by EPA: Economy & Space, up to 8 travel + accommodation stipends available to enable doctoral & postdoctoral researchers to participate in the "ideational geographies" workshop at UBC, June 11-13, 2025. Application details: blogs.ubc.ca/peck/researc...

As this site is coming alive, I tried to help my own orientation by creating a starter pack for global urban history. Suggestions welcome go.bsky.app/3FUgYoE