telling everyone that this was planned by me to boost sales! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/on-top-of...

publication day!!!! so many people to thank!!! всем спасибо за всё ˃̵ᴗ˂̵  please consider ordering for your library ♡ if you read it, i hope you enjoy it!!! and if you/anyone you know/your university/institution/secret roof club might enjoy hearing me talk about roofs, get in touch!!!!

out on the 11th!!! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/on-top-of...

i think about vladimir modârcă’s maritime school building at least biweekly

in moldovan architectural heritage news: icomos has now issued a heritage alert for the republican stadium in chișinǎu in response to plans to demolish it to develop a new US embassy !!!! www.icomos.org/news/heritag...

oxford friends come say hi!

i’m so happy that ✨ 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘴 ✨ is finally out!! i’ve contributed a chapter on heritage, civic activism and the urban commons in chișinău ! it’s open access so give it a read but also buy a copy/ order it for your library (but only if you want to)!!! muse.jhu.edu/book/142608

он топ ов зэ сити люблю крыши (всегда и навсегда)

ничего особенного but i wrote a commentary for memory studies on the relationship between skateboarding and imperialism (russian and epistemic) doi.org/10.1177/1750...

out next year !!! @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social

special delivery!!!

my review of post-soviet graffiti by @alexislerner.bsky.social is now out in city & society. a compelling read for anyone interested in post-socialist urbanism, political communication, and public space under both authoritarianism and neoliberal capitalism doi.org/10.1111/ciso...

Street name politics is back in the news in Moldova. There have been calls to rename Moscow blvd. in Chișinău into Ilie Ilașcu street. Ilașcu was one of the most well-known fighters against separatists during the Russian-Moldovan war in 1992 ...

if you’re in dc for aseees next week a) let’s get a coffee/drink and b) come hear me talk about this guy and his master plan for chișinău on saturday (there will be photos !! and drawings!!! and maps !! that you maybe have never seen before for all the șciusevheads out there) !!

Modern Languages students at the University of Nottingham have started a petition to save languages degrees. Please sign and share www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...

www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/at-gails-w... (free to read)

turns out you can always just move to the east coast of scotland

moldovan elections are underway (eek)!!! you can follow the voting + results as they come in this evening here: pv.cec.md

A long thread on how I'll be following returns for the Moldovan legisl. election on Sep. 28. Polls close inside MD at 9 p.m. Until then, the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) will only be releasing turnout data throughout the day. Results will start rolling in fairly quickly ...

la mulți ani de ziua independenței, moldova! 🫶

The Editorial to our Special Issue on Grey Spaces and Chromatic Leisure for @leisurestudies.bsky.social is now published. @indigowilling.bsky.social @benjaminduester.bsky.social @sanderholsgens.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

My favourite Moldova story of the week is Boney M performing at the city festival of Bălți. newsmaker.md/ru/boney-m-m... www.youtube.com/live/6IKxabT...

exciting news! ✩ i’ve been awarded a leverhulme early career fellowship to spend the next three years thinking about urban space, cultural heritage & the relationship between the local and national in moldova and will be based at st andrews ☆彡 hai să mergem// давай пойдём ミ☆

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across romania at easter 🪻

spring in bucharest 🌱

wrote about grey spaces, russia and the capitalocene. hope this enriches the chromatic leisure paradigm in some way ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

every minute the NHS needs 3 donations so, if you can, go donate blood/plasma/platelets (+ you get snacks)❣️

let’s gooooo

happy stalin death day to all those who celebrate! смерть диктаторам.

wondering how to support ukraine? here’s a list: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

3 years

the estimated number of buildings destroyed by russia is already more than 250,000. this new online archive/exhibition presents the scale of the destruction and the range of buildings destroyed. this is an irreplaceable loss. ukrainian-destroyed-heritage.leibniz-gwzo.de

Spiraling about what I can do in a collapsed economy flooded with workers with my exact skill set. Should I get backyard chickens and become an egg mogul

Lovely roundtable talk for LGBTQ+ History Month at the @uniofnottingham.bsky.social. Excited to talk with @abikaras.bsky.social and @siobhanhearne.bsky.social about queer histories of central and eastern Europe 🥳 Join us (if you're about in Nottingham, of course) - all are welcome!

friends i’ll be in paris next week talking about urban space and community activism in chișinău

masa zilei/meal of the day: me working through the 10 different mămăligă variations in my old romanian cookbooks

europe, but i dropped a pin on every mihai eminescu street

this article on skateboarders in ukraine is good and you should read it but i’m also the most annoying person in the world ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

don’t feel like i accomplished much of note this year but i did watch a lot of films (take from that what you will) so here are all 170 things i watched/logged on letterboxd in the order i watched/logged them

“cryptic image” and it’s just a still from the colour of pomegranates (charli has taste)

мерікурісмас всім

Leopold Levytsky, Postcard, 1972

привіт! 🌻 a reminder for anyone on the homes for ukraine scheme (or who knows anyone who is) you have to apply for an e-visa by 31st december! the system is not the most intuitive so am happy to help if i can (but local homes for ukraine teams should also be able to advise)!

have seen some good skies this year

christmas cookie selection 2024: - early grey tea and lemon - gingerbread - brown butter chocolate chip - white chocolate miso

what a wonderful surprise to find in my pigeonhole on the last day of teaching this year !! studii de istoria și teoria arhitecturii // studies in history & theory of architecture !! honestly it’s so beautiful !! they are operating on an entirely different level in bucharest 💙