I am really thrilled to see this published in Eurasian Geography and Economics — I feel this is one of the best text I've ever written. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/CSDAE...

Trying to cope with the intensity of Hong Kong, my new home for almost a month now, I've started recording some (mostly visual) notes from the city. Feel free to check them out on my substack! wojoinhk.substack.com You can even subscribe so that you don't miss the next post ;)

Having moved to The University of Hong Kong's Department Urban Planning and Design, I am currently accepting applications for Postdocs, PhD students, and Research Assistants working along my research lines.

I am truly delighted to announce that today I am starting a new job at The University of Hong Kong, joining the Department of Urban Planning and Design at the Faculty of Architecture as Assistant Professor.

Delighted to have seen Merlin Gillard defend his thesis yesterday. Do check his work about the production of public transport through the lens of labour, fares and surveillance, comparing Luxembourg and Santiago de Cuba!

Excited to take part of this panel at the upcoming Capitalist Transformations in Eastern and Central Europe’ conference, an academic event that takes place online between 19 - 22 May 2025.

From a couple of walks across #Detroit's #CBD

@evgenymorozov.bsky.social at his best: “The oligarch-intellectuals … are treading the Soviet path” www.theideasletter.org/essay/silico...

New article! We explore the geography of #fare-free #public #transport (#FFPT) in the United States. Across the country, 73 urban public transport networks went fare-free during the COVID-19 pandemic, on top of 29 that had existed before. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Transiting #Detroit in this little retro-futuristic gem called People’s Mover

Empty #Detroit #aag It might be on the rise, coming back and hip again, but Detroit still feels so eerily empty

A truly surreal trip to the Polish(?) Hamtramock, Detroit, unwinding after the #aag

Quote of the #AAG thus far just now by @stefankip.bsky.social "Let’s thank the far-right for identifying the threat and hope — scientists, queer people, people of colour, … we are the threat, we are here”

If in doubt what #AAG session to attend next, come join us to explore fantastic/al cities! We start at 10.10 am in room 337

So excited to be back to the US and #AAG after six years! I had a really amazing walk last night around Detroit: it's such a privilege to be back here.

In Luxembourg today for the final seminar of LiFT, our research project on fare-free public transport (FFPT). Had the pleasure of opening the event with a keynote on the contradictions of FFPT.

“The interviews also show that high PT fares, before the introduction of the €58 “Deutschlandticket,” had been a major barrier, forcing individuals to choose between transport and other essential needs like food and housing. This financial constraint limits mobility […]”

Yet another town in Brazil has adopted fare-free public transport. Brazil is where the exclusionary and toxic nature of fares is plain to be seen. Fares are not an economic necessity, but a political choice.

We’ve had EVs for over 100 years

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Join us on 20th March for the final event of the 5-year project on fare-free public transport, hosted by @liser.lu www.liser.lu/news-to-pay-...

More walks across #Brasilia! Exploring the beauty and contradictions of the the city presumably made for the cars... Lots of love to @debrapolis.bsky.social for her guidance

market day in #Brasilia

humble beginning of a warm-up before pre-carnival...

uma leitura ótima: “em um mundo onde as teorias da conspiração e as curas mais absurdas são amplamente aceitas, logo desaparecem conceitos baseados em evidências, como culpa e criminalidade”

First walk in Brasilia, the presumably car oriented city. Loads of walkable spaces, plenty of contradictions. Timeless design.

On the road to Brasilia…

#CallForPapers - #RGS 2025 26-29 August 2025, Birmingham (UK) Together with Hannes Langguth, we're organising a session titled "Transnational Investment and Local Agency in ‘Left-Behind’ Regions: (trans-)local transformations in CEE and beyond. More details below. Deadline: 14 February 2025

Meeting friends and colleagues today at a conference concluding our www.carinpt.eu project. Lots of interesting reflections on #public #transport and #mobilities. And it's held in the very building in which I work at #VUB/#ULB #USquare in #Brussels — it's so cool to cycle (≠ fly) to a conference!

Check out Urbanism Now, a weekly newsletter on all things urban, set up by my former students: Maria Paula Moreno Vivas & Raymond Berger! urbanismnow.substack.com/p/2-sanction... (thanks for reading and recommending the article we recently published on women's mobility in Santiago de Cuba)

First Bluesky post! Here's an #article published only a few days ago in the Journal of Transport #Geography. Together with Monika Maciejewska we have studied how #women experience and adapt to #transport #scarcity in the city of #Santiago de #Cuba. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...