Last few days of the Call for Entries for the European Prize for Public Space 2026, organised by Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB): www.publicspace.org. Super proud to be supporting through the prize's Board of Experts. / #publicspaceprize2026 #cities #publicspace

Yes, we have a book launch next Wednesday at the AA Bookshop. Please come!

Just out, the collective nature of landscape: www.routledge.com/Collective-L... #landscape #justice #architecture

Mustafa Suleyman & Bill Gates on Today, BBC Radio 4 - asked what benefits #AI could bring to healthcare, Gates’ second suggestion was that ‘it could help explain your bill’. We don’t have ‘bills’ in the UK for healthcare, but thanks for being honest about the direction of travel.

"Today, some 117 million people have been forced to flee their homes... The tools to help them survive, rebuild and eventually return home already exist. But they require time, cooperation, trust and a desire to invest in peace rather than war." Filippo Grandi www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/o...

Architecture for Warfare came out this week. While much of my writing speculates optimistically at the possibilities of landscape and architectural practice, this research funded by the Graham Foundation, examines some of the limits. www.jovis.de/en/book/9783...

Thanks Will for sharing 🙏🏼 www.jovis.de/en/book/9783...

Great news www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Brilliant Humanitarianism series on e-flux. @eflux.bsky.social @jonathanlukeaustin.bsky.social @alucidwake.bsky.social www.e-flux.com/architecture...

Rocks, Dornoch Beach, October 2025

The Dutch radical right maintained its vote share this election. One election pledge was to deport the “children and grandchildren” of migrants. No amount of integration will ever be enough for some, because their policies are just a thin veil for bigotry My piece www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...

A Nature poll found that 75% of U.S. researchers are considering leaving the country. Guyz, even the *historians* are leaving or contemplating / likely to go. Including, at least 3 historians that I know of in my subfield. 😢

Here are the key events from day 1,344 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Outrun rhe sea… www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Amid a war on public knowledge, libraries are pushing outward, enlarging the commons through new configurations of civic and creative life. In her latest — and, yes, 34th! — article for Places, @shannonmattern.bsky.social writes about building the infrastructure we need to keep ourselves free.

We’ve received a lot of questions about Trump’s demolition of the White House East Wing. Here’s how the process is supposed to work:

We can add to this mix the proliferation of private ICE detention facilities and speculative Gaza redevelopment and border tech (I wrote about an earlier era back in 2018:) and and and…

UN special rapporteur on right to housing says Palestinians returning to destroyed northern Gaza face 'profound trauma'.

There is so much wrong with this: “Universities in the UK reassured arms companies they would monitor students’ chat groups and social media accounts…” www.theguardian.com/education/20...

The theft of public land for their 5th home:“The Waleses are relocating…” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... #righttoroam #publicspace

Summer reading pair, with insights on the digital from both Shannon Mattern and Steve Kennedy!

Cover, done!

This is landscape. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Do you want to talk about rent control? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

If there is a “coalition of the willing” supporting Ukraine, is there a “coalition of the unwilling” who have agreed to look away from the destruction of Gaza and occupation of the West Bank? www.the-guardian.com/world/live/2...

The largest union in America, the three million member-strong National Educators Association, has voted to *cut all ties* with the Anti-Defamation League, citing the ADL’s opposition to Palestinian rights and antiracism. @labornotes.bsky.social has the story: www.labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...

Something else that has been abandoned to the brutality of private equity… www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

What does a human rights lawyer have to do to just become a lawyer? Nothing. Just do nothing.

Stories as old as the hills - but still urgent and relevant: “Power hides by setting us against each other. This is never more true than in the countryside, where the impacts of an extreme concentration of ownership and control...” By @georgemonbiot.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

While all eyes are on Iran… “Dozens of aid seekers among 82 people killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza” www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...

Keir Starmer on preemptive wars: “The mere fact that ____ [fill in the blank] has a capacity to attack at some unspecified time in the future is not enough.” www.theguardian.com/politics/200...

Let’s not forget this. Still killing people. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Let’s not forget this. Still killing people. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Every time I read the news, I keep being reminded why I stopped voting for Labour when they led the UK to war in Iraq. A Labour UK government again complicit in war crimes. @UKLabour @FloEshalomi

A new satellite imagery analysis by Dr. He Yin of Kent State University shows that nearly all of Gaza's crops, tree cover and grassland have been damaged in Israel's invasion — devastation that some have said should be prosecuted as "ecocide.

"[T]he bargain at the heart of the British Civil Service is that we sign up to deliver the policies of the Government of the day wholeheartedly, within the limits imposed by the law and the Civil Service Code," www.bbc.com/news/article...

“Kidnapped in International Waters” www.democracynow.org/2025/6/9/mad...

Any academics out there with a USS pension and who are opposed to nuclear power should probably click on the link below… 👇

“not necessarily fully backed by evidence” : a very British way of saying that the government is lying www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Series of sketches for coming book on architecture and warfare to be published later this year by Jovis. Support by the Graham Foundation. / #architecture #military #warfare #conflict #book #grahamfoundation /

‘The response to The Settlers has been humbling. But the ongoing displacement and intimidation of Palestinians is more severe than we could capture’ / www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Do you want to know my opinion on the shortlist? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Who would do this? “A ship carrying humanitarian aid and activists to Gaza has been bombed…” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Tony Blair never fails to disappoint… “Labour insider rebukes ‘tech bros’ within Tony Blair Institute as critics question past work with petrostates” / www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

“Environmental defenders were wary of Starmer’s Labour party, though I don’t think anyone believed it would be worse than the Tories. But here we are.” @georgemonbiot.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Get this: Commerce is slashing $ to Princeton's world-renowned climate research b/c modeling changes to Earth systems is "contributing to a phenomenon known as 'climate anxiety,' which has increased significantly among America’s youth." No research, no problem! www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...

The Trump administration has imposed a steep 50% tariff on Lesotho, a small, impoverished African nation of two million people – the highest tariff levied on any country ⤵️

A reminder to read more by @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥 www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ma...

There is a lot in this article for university leadership to reflect on www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

So true www.theguardian.com/politics/202...