Psychological backing to the idea that gentrification creates distributive affective injustice: “Gentrification isn’t just about who gets priced out. It also creates deep psychological divides, strengthening belonging for those already well-off while undermining it for the most vulnerable”

Cardiff will be the first UK city to introduce a surcharge for oversized SUVs and trucks, "while very large vehicles – those over 3,500kg – will be excluded from residential permits entirely."

Si la variedad de idiomas es importante en cualquier disciplina, en el estudio de la ciudad es absolutamente imprescindible escuchar a voces locales en su propio idioma. Los países hispanohablantes también tenemos una manera propia de vivir la ciudad en las calles que es interesante a nivel global

What if your ability to vote depended on your transport options? What if your ability to vote also shapes your transport options?🚍🗳️ My new Transport Reviews paper shows how democracy and transport are more connected than we think 👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

The rather brilliant @stephencollins.bsky.social calling out the mass psychosis of car culture in today's UK @theguardian.com. Love it. @thewaroncars.bsky.social

Urbanism evening with the @academyofurbanism.bsky.social. Norman+Fosters’ Spencer de Grey discussed urban interventions across Europe. One of the takeaways is that urban design needs to look beyond the place that is intervened itself, looking also at connections & surroundings + consultations

Call for papers: Centre researcher Pablo Fernández Velasco is co-editing. Original research, case studies, and perspectives welcome. Examples: ecological grief, climate anxiety, solastalgia, displacement trauma. www.frontiersin.org/research-top...

Today, as part of Antwerp’s Deathcare project, Dr Ural presents on recent the history of burial laws and practices regarding religious minorities, and how the upholding of Muslim traditions in public space in contemporary Europe can function as an “act of citizenship”

Good to see @hetanshah.bsky.social highlighting our @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk work on the measurement of social and cultural infrastructure as well as @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social's The Measure of Progress. www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/publications... press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

The next 10 days: 'Distributive Affective Justice' describes the distribution process for affective goods & burdens (MANCEPT) 'Affective Rights to the City' specifies entitlements to emotional aspects of urban life that must be protected by policymakers (MANCEPT & The Future of Practical Ethics).

The number of people killed or seriously injured on London borough roads reduced by 34% following the implementation of 20mph speed limits, with the number of children killed falling by 75% www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

First publication out! It questions whether people who report loss of community due to gentrification and migration should both be treated as victims of injustice. My view is that we should, although injustice has different grounds in the latter case: the unjust distribution of affective burdens.

Petition: Mandate funding of active travel provision as part of any transport projects petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

My turn for some local body of water posting

Lovely interview here with the creator of this mural, Anthony Downie, with a nod to neighbourhood play. “It’s just about daily life, isn’t it? I spent a lot of time as a kid playing in back lanes” ilovenorthshields.com/elevation-mu...

‘As Dave Cook, an anthropologist at UCL, says: “If you go to a place to take advantage of a lower cost of living, you are hacking inequalities, and there will be pushback”.’

This new article by Daniel Bruckner articulates an attractive view: to be a welfare subject, rather than sentience, you need to be an entity 'that engages in self-production in a way that is adaptive to its environment.' Plants qualify, maybe machines. I think groups, communities, cities do too.

Very interesting call— hope to be there presenting one of the project’s works in progress!

Just attended a fantastic panel on 'Just and Unjust Cities' as part of the conference dedicated to Jo Wolff's work (after a really cool panel on methodology and with some other interesting stuff to come on health, equality and public philosophy). Here's two works on urban justice to look out for:

#NewArticle Housing Justice, Basic Capabilities, and Self-Respect | Niklas Dummer, Christian Neuhäuser #philsky onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/TPZKBM...

“It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them.” — Mayor of Pontevedra, Spain (re-elected 6 times)

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They also take up much more space on residential streets (even without parking bays), reducing the available space for play and hanging out, and making crossing and moving about on residential streets more dangerous, as visibility between cars is also reduced. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

In our new paper @tibg.bsky.social, 5 years after the first UK lockdown, @wendyrussell.bsky.social and I use the work of Donald Winnicott to explore how children’s lockdown play on their doorsteps signals the value of neighbourhood spaces of play as spaces of care, in crises and beyond.

I am loving the campaign that the BPA has put together to spread awareness about the value of studying and doing Philosophy. This short video titled “I didn’t know that philosophers did that!” is a fantastic example of, well, what we do #philosophymatters #philofortnight2025

The 'Scaffolding Bad' collection in Topoi (I co-edited with Giovanna Colombetti and John Sutton) is finally complete, with 21 papers and an introduction. link.springer.com/collections/...

New special issue out: #PhilosophyOfTheCity : The question concerning #Resilience . Of course, it's #OpenAccess. I couldn't attend the colloquium, but I am happy to have a chance to read the papers and engage in the discussion. #UrbanResilience #Justice #Philsophy www.kritike.org/journal/spec...

"As our study shows, car-centric urban design comes not only at the cost of polluting the environment and losing precious urban space to transportation infrastructure, but also at the cost of tearing the social fabric of communities."

"A single public space is never going to be able to support the common activities of too many people . . . What matters is whether an urban environment has a rich infrastructural network of public facilities that support an abundance of different activities." Good stuff from Jack Layton ⚽

SUVs can be considered what is known as a “hostile scaffold”: an element of the environment that negatively affects one’s cognitive and affective processes. For example, it can make pedestrians afraid (specially children) and feel out of place in streets, which now belong to monster cars #philsky

Excellent paper, and great empirical counterpart to David Jenkins argument on gentrification as an unjust multi-level productive process (w a more fine-grained taxonomy of gentrif regimes). As a bonus, it focuses on Luxembourg—also v useful since philosophy of housing can be a bit too US-centric

Classifying 15-minute Cities: A review of worldwide practices * By Teixeira F. J. & al * In Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice Volume 189, November 2024 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

As a philosopher of cities AND love, I cannot wait to read all the articles! May also be of interest to my friends at @clsrleeds.bsky.social #philsky

Anyone into #cartography, #transit, #design or #rail #transport #history should check this out. One of the foremost #schematic concepts to influence todays #map & #diagram designers. (Reposting this a bit late from Joe Brown’s excellent BlueSky thread - also worth adding if you have not already).

Raises really interesting questions about how we value our shared social and cultural infrastructure and how we manage the tensions of urban spaces.

Currently reading this report by Prof @alisonstenning.bsky.social on the connection between street play & loneliness, which I will definitely use for my work in progress on proximity and affective scaffolding for the Moral Psychology of Loneliness collection #philsky playingout.net/wp-content/u...

Currently on my commute listening to this ⬇️ Intrigued by their view of the commons as requiring a “community of action giving meaning to these spaces”, so places like gated communities are not commons, but neither are cafes, streets or parks by themselves #philsky open.spotify.com/episode/6bsb...

🚨 New Report 🚨 'Centripetal Cities: A critique of supply-side urban development' Given the Government's aim to 'unleash growth' we've drawn on over 3 years of research to think about the implications of this agenda for towns + cities Available here www.sheffield.ac.uk/media/87471/...

Back on the other place, I developed a thread about how pieces on child poverty were regularly illustrated with images of children playing in their neighbourhoods, yet play (deprivation) rarely features in mainstream discussions of child poverty. Here’s another example.

In year 1 I will (re-)read a lot of stuff on cities and affect. This is a v new topic in phil, but there is a lot to explore from other areas of phil & other disciplines. I will be sharing my readings here as “AFFINITY lit review” short threads, but here is an overview of what is coming! #philsky 🚶🏽‍♀️🌇

Hello Bluesky! Here is a brief description of the project. In the next 3 years, I will explore topics like community, loneliness, home, or self-narration in connection with urban affective justice.