The piece I was writing about this has just been published, taking the "play pavilion" as a starting point - thought you might be interested: www.mediapolisjournal.com/2025/11/citi...

On Sunday, #Zürich residents voted 52.8% in favor of increasing parking fees for cars according to weight. The owner of a BMW X2 (Diesel), which weighs 1,675 kilograms, will now pay equivalent of €717 Euros per year to park on a public street. (Before, about €321.) Direct democracy!

Studenten wonen steeds vaker in het ouderlijk huis. Deze grafiek laat zien dat minder studenten aangeven op zichzelf te wíllen wonen. Maar deze trend lijkt mij dat gevolg van een bewustzijn van de hoge kosten en de grote druk. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

NEW: Car bonnets are becoming a half-centimetre higher every year, driving road safety fears. This #carspreading trend where supersized SUVs crowd out space in towns and cities is also leading to cars that are more dangerous in a crash. 🧵

New open access paper in Social & Cultural Geography! Meghan Flood and I study how nonbinary and genderqueer young adults experience and navigate housing precarity in Amsterdam. Very happy this is out. A thread sharing some key take-aways: (1/n) >>> doi.org/10.1080/1464...

Tomorrow at 2 pm! Jan van Duppen's seminar on the temporalities of community gardening in Berlin 🌿 Organised by the Department of Ecological Anthropoloy in Prague. Join us in person or online: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

The UK car industry contributes £22bn to the economy and employs c 35k people. Universities contribute £265bn and employ nearly 400k, over 10x as much. Yet he seems ok to let that sector implode.

Currently writing the script for my talk 'Tuning into the Garden's Rhythms amidst the Climate Crisis?', that I will present at the @czechacademy.bsky.social Institute of Ethnology on Thursday, 10 April, at 2 pm. Hope to see you-all in Prague or online. Register: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

amazing how the cyber attack on the British Library still means that all recently published work (and that's a definition that stretches back several years) is completely unavailable to researchers, since they only acquired ebooks and that system is still down

Next week: 'Tuning into the Garden's Rhythms amidst the Climate Crisis?' 🌿 A special addition to our Department of Ecological Anthropology's seminar series by @jvdup.bsky.social next Thursday, 10 April, at 2 pm. Join us in Prague or online! 🌍 To register: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

In Peterborough Cathedral there is a panel explaining that during the Reformation, when soldiers came to smash the monuments, steal the gold and burn the books, a monk managed to save just one book from the library, claiming to the illiterate soldiers that it was a bible that must not be burned.

Shell offering its Dutch employees opportunity to enrol as part time reservists in Dutch army…

This is something I’ve been thinking about for ages, and am pleased Leisure Studies’ special issue on “grey spaces” gave me a change to explore it. As access to green space is widely promoted, I argue *for* play in grey space. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Vandaag spraken we met Francesca Albanese over de gruwelijke realiteit in Palestina. Als VN-rapporteur voor de Palestijnse gebieden waarschuwt ze al tijden voor genocide door Israël. Maar de minister van Buitenlandse Zaken kijkt liever weg en weigerde haar vandaag te ontvangen. 🤔 1/2

What does the more-than-human city look like? Our Nature of Cities @tnoc.bsky.social Global Roundtable is out: www.thenatureofcities.com/2025/02/12/w... - with Ferne Edwards, Lucia Alexandra Popartan, @cqualmann.bsky.social, @idilgaziulusoy.bsky.social, @butterflyup.bsky.social, and many others

Duitsland gaat economisch kapot aan zijn eigen gierigheid. Weet Nederland de dans te ontspringen? Mijn nieuwe @groene.nl column www.groene.nl/artikel/duit...

PhD Position in #geography

15 years and two doctoral theses in the making! Here we try to reterritorialize Ignasi de Solà-Morales' concept of the terrain vague within the "reconstruction" of Barcelona in the 80s and 90s, intervening into the never-ending discourse around urban voids. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Animal Geography Working Group is now on Bluesky. Give us a follow @rgs-agwg.bsky.social to keep up with new essays, events, and more!

Listen to Nick Beech talking about the Stuart Hall Archive Project. Now can't wait for Hall's previously unpublished manuscript of 'A Cure for Marriage' to come out.

I learned a lot from reading this article on the floods in Valencia t.co/MRx5SETwxp

London folks! Come along to this? It'll be great... #UrbanSalon #walkingasmethod #theurbansalon 🌃🚶‍♀️

Great days at #POLLEN24 earlier this week, where we also got to do an Urban Natures book launch www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Edward...

If you are wondering how Dutch ‘democracy’ is faring, new extreme right coalition is about to appoint the former director of the secret service as prime minister, they are also planning to double the VAT on print media and most cultural events. Putinesque?

Fijn kritiek op de politieke clichés die voor duiding moeten doorgaan, met een hoofdrol voor Josse de Voogd en de Atlas van Afgehaakt Nederland.

I'm very happy to be part of this ed. vol. with a chapter that takes a look at the playful 'becoming with' between foxes and London allotment gardeners, whilst it also attempts to trouble notions of care and play in these boundary crossings. If interested, please get in touch for a chapter copy!

A question: Do you have any recommendations for academic journals in geography/urban studies/sociology/anthropology that publish photo-essays? I'm teaching a course on photography in geography at the HU Berlin urban geography master and I'm looking for examples of photo-essays and journals.

Very happy to share with you our collaborative work: 'Leaks and Rumblings: An Experimental Confluence of (In)Visible Rivers in São Paulo and London' by Augusto Anéas, Aileen Harvey, @sandrajasper.bsky.social, Laura Kemmer, Claudia Muniz & myself mediapolisjournal.com/2023/11/leak... in Mediapolis

Mijn column voor het themanummer van De Groene over klasse. Over ons verwrongen beeld van klasse, meer specifiek het rechtspopulistische idee dat een stedelijke havermelkelite in ons land de dienst uitmaakt. Een beeld dat ongewild onderschreven wordt door het SCP. Vandaag zonder paywall.