🚨 #UrbanStudies Vol. 62, Issue 13 (October 2025) out now! ✍️ Special Issue "Google, a stakeholder in local governance?" Guest editors: Antoine Courmont & Burcu Baykurt This collection explores how #Google has become a key actor in local #politics and urban environments. 📖 buff.ly/veREgdw

New: Carr & Madron "Post-political clouds: Suspended failure in Google's data centre development". doi.org/10.1177/0042... In @baykurt.bsky.social Antoine Courmont Special Issue "Google, a major stakeholder in local governance?" @urbanstudiesjournal.com @uni.lu @fnr.lu @markushesse60.bsky.social

Hi All, Just sent out my free weekend update. More and more it seems that Anchorage has seen Putin and Trump come together to push a deal that could permanently hobble Ukraine. Trump is pushing Ukraine give up more territory to Russia and get nothing meaningless. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

“The City of #Montreal is stopping orders from #Amazon until further notice. Despite the reprieve on #tariffs, is not letting its guard down. We are combing through our supplier list to find local or international alternatives. We remain united and will buy locally.” cultmtl.com/2025/02/the-...

You don't do this. No ethical person does this to their vendors and partners. This is the hallmark of a crook. www.wired.com/story/metas-...

There are now 100 people in the Luxembourg bubble Starter Pack with some journalists like @diegoinbxl.bsky.social or @webdaniele.bsky.social , a lot of people from the uni.lu like @markushesse60.bsky.social or @thomascauvin.bsky.social go.bsky.app/Qo8jop6

In the context of #FINCITY-Research, we explored today the recent development called ‘Europaviertel’ in Frankfurt am Main. Our trip was insightfully guided by the great dietervonlüpke, former director of the city’s planning office. Very cool.

New commentary in TIBG: 'Imagining post-war futures amid cycles of destruction and efforts of reconstruction' by @constancecarr.bsky.social & Olga Kryvets This piece contributes to our ongoing conversation on geopolitics and the invasion of Ukraine. doi.org/10.1111/tran...

Hi ✨ Together with Anna Schjøtt Hansen and Tobias Blanke, I organize the #CriticalAI Seminar Series @uvahumanities.bsky.social. This is the 24-25 program🙌 ⚡The sessions are online and open to everyone, find more info and sign up here: t.co/ScqpC7ZDrT

🚨 4️⃣ positions to be filled! Join us in Frankfurt/Darmstadt for exciting work in #nuclear arms control, nonproliferation and disarmament at the crossroads of #science and policy! DLs mid-December and later, vary per position. Working language English. And we move into new fancy office spaces! 🚨

Carr/Kryvets 2024 Imagining post-war futures amid cycles of destruction and efforts of reconstruction. Transactions Accessible here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author... Thank you @markushesse60.bsky.social ‪ @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social @tibg.bsky.social

Still a bit stunned to see this. (more later)

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