Launch event at the Karachi Urban Lab for a new film and report on railway led displacements in urban Pakistan as part of our Global Corridor project. Community members, activists, and researchers will discuss how big infrastructure projects hit up against everyday lives. Register via the QR code

The 'Manchester Model' in one story...public money subsidising private profit Renaker borrowed £700+ million from the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) + its affiliates to build high end skyscapers... Now it's owner is fleeing with the profits to tax-free Monaco

Global Corridor newsletter 6 is out now covering... BlackRock’s $80bn investment in power/data, Africa's largest mining project, podcast on the global infra race, Dutch semiconductor move, docker struggles in history, special economic zone urbanism... globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...

In early 2025, the Israeli military launched an operation that emptied three Palestinian refugee camps. They've blocked their residents from returning and razed many of their homes. In a new report, HRW finds that Israeli forces carried out war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.

Publication Day for our Open Access book w/ Bristol Uni Press "The Material Geographies of the Belt and Road Initiative: Infrastructures + Political Ecologies on the New Silk Road" Edited w/ Elia Apostolopoulou, Han Cheng + Alan Wiig Link here >> bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-material...

Yet again Sheffield University management are forcing sheffielducu.bsky.social members out on strike f/ Monday to protect staff jobs, student educ, + research progress which are under threat by major (and financially unnecessary) change management processes. Another university has to be possible!

Yet again Sheffield University management are forcing sheffielducu.bsky.social members out on strike f/ Monday to protect staff jobs, student educ, + research progress which are under threat by major (and financially unnecessary) change management processes. Another university has to be possible!

Great to be on the latest episode of the Urban Radar podcast talking about the global infrastructure race, corridors, transforming urban geographies, China and more with Zhengli, Linda and hosted by Tom/Beth Have a listen!

SAVE GEOGRAPHY at Leicester University (UK) - We call on the University of Leicester to urgently reconsider the proposal to dissolve Geography. This is direct attack on the discipline of Geography at Leicester with likely loss of Geography staff. Please sign + share www.change.org/p/save-geogr...

Looking forward to releasing this report with the Karachi Urban Lab, led by Muhammed Toheed + exploring the ways technical standards for a major railway project will shape the urban lives of thousands of people... Launch event coming up in Karachi soon

Glad we have such critical journalism in Manchester

Announcing Antipode’s 10th Institute for the Geographies of Justice (IGJ), "Organizing and Solidarity in a Polycrisis", Toronto, 1-5 June 2026 antipodeonline.org/institute-fo... -- submit your application by 20 December 2025

A reminder that Sudanese activists inc in Manchester have been calling to boycott the UAE, now even more vital given the UAE backed RSF militia captures El Fasher War crimes + blood on the hands of Abu Dhabi + the UAE More info: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

New research for the Briefing shows the project companies, Total and CNOOC, have been forced to lend money to their own project. The project sponsors are self-financing almost 90% of the #EACOP in the face of large scale rejection from the banking sector. www.banktrack.org/article/tota...

Not a great look and shows how close Labour Party in MCR is with the real estate industry Lucy Powell issues statement after reports she urged Angela Rayner to rethink legal case against property developer donor www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

And coming tomorrow online as our birthday celebrations continue... Keynote Lecture 2: Beyond Splintering Urbanism Professor Simon Marvin Tuesday 21 October 2025 - 10:30am to 12:15pm sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...

Great weekend of radical politics at The World Transformed learning + discussing about imperialism, state violence, red/green alliances, the role of the party. Stand out was the Kids transformed space which was full of fun and care (and crafting!)

Looking forward to The World Transformed Festival of radical politics, art and culture kicking off tomorrow... I'm involved in two sessions, a panel looking at the power of Abu Dhabi in the UK/MCR + a walking tour of financialised MCR More info here theworldtransformed.org/twt25/twt25p...

My Global Corridor newsletter #5 is out now This issue features stories, data, opinion + academic work from Pakistani ports to Russia in Sudan to Middle Eastern railways to the longest film ever (on logistics).... globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...

The latest paper I wrote with Costanza Franceschini (Leiden), which came out on @ripejournal.bsky.social, inspired a piece for @theconversation.com 👌 You can now read it here: theconversation.com/chinese-comp... The original paper is open access at: doi.org/10.1080/0969...

It's our 10th Birthday!!! As we enter Urban October we are pleased to share a series of events, gatherings and activities organised by the Urban Institute to celebrate ten years of urban research at the University of Sheffield. sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...

The UK Government is arming a genocide while closing down/criminalising any possibility to protest these war crimes. All for a foreign government that has killed at least 20,000 children... Free Palestine because none of us are free until all of us are free

Glad to share my new article just out in Urban Studies on the impacts of logistical and neo-extractive infrastructures in Buenos Aires! 🏗️ 🚢 Materiality + temporalities + environmental degradation + social struggles 🔥 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Manchester out today against the genocide in Gaza as it is every week, people who value and cherish the lives of everyone regardless of race and religion

I can’t believe that senior politicians, police + media in the UK are now labelling people protesting against genocide antisemitic. People have been killed this week and it’s being mobilised in appalling ways. Horrified at the state of our country…

A fantastic crowd today for our joint event with the city of Athens on homelessness outreach policy across Manchester, Athens and Santiago. The public event wraps up three days of knowledge exchange between our teams in the three metro areas stemming from the #UKRI urban crisis project.

Excited for our new edited (and OPEN ACCESS) book released on Nov 20th "The Material Geographies of the Belt and Road Initiative: Infrastructures and Political Ecologies on the New Silk Road" with Elia Apostolopoulou, Han Cheng and Alan Wiig bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-material...

My Global Corridor newsletter #4 featuring stories, data, opinion + academic work from digital cables to Artic sea routes to private equity funds to AI supply chains....Out now globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...

'New Urban Frontiers' This @urbangeography.bsky.social special issue edited by me and @clairemercer.bsky.social has now been published online: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rurb20/4... A thread on the papers 👇

Whilst the Labour party congregate at their annual conference, protestors are outside disobeying the unjust ban on Palestine Action. They're risking arrest under the Terrorism Act, for silently holding cardboard signs which say "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action". wedonotcomply.org

Comrades, join us in Hulme, Manchester at The World Transformed for this session... "Sheikh Mansour my lord?: Capital, Football, Real Estate, and the growing role of Abu Dhabi in Britain" 10 Oct, 12PM – 1:30PM theworldtransformed.org/twt25/twt25p...

Assata Shakur, an icon of Black liberation who was exiled to Cuba, dies aged 78 ❤️ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I am sickened but not surprised to see this ghoul appear amid an ongoing genocide. "Washington backing plan for Tony Blair to head transitional Gaza authority" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Brilliant reporting on the role of the UAE (esp Abu Dhabi) in war crimes in Sudan We will never, ever escape: inside the ever-tightening siege of the Sudanese city of El Fasher The UAE/Abu Dhabi is a key UK ally esp via its investments in Manchester www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

My third Global Corridor newsletter is out now on Substack "Power of Siberia 2 pipeline, EU designs (on) Africa's corridors, Genoa's dockworkers threaten blockade, LAPSSET, seeing like a train + radical highway geographies" globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...

My third Global Corridor newsletter is out now on Substack "Power of Siberia 2 pipeline, EU designs (on) Africa's corridors, Genoa's dockworkers threaten blockade, LAPSSET, seeing like a train + radical highway geographies" globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...

We're excited to present the trailer for our new Global Corridor film by director Spyros Gerousis "Contained: A new Silk Road Story" Watch here: vimeo.com/1103055839

We're excited to present the trailer for our new Global Corridor film by director Spyros Gerousis "Contained: A new Silk Road Story" Watch here: vimeo.com/1103055839

"The ‘Gaza Riviera’ is a fantasy plan that relies on urbicide and expulsion" Jon Silver in the Conversation theconversation.com/the-gaza-riv...

The leaked redevelopment plan pays homage to mega projects in the Gulf.

I got asked to write about the Gaza Riviera Plan + argue it should be understood within the settler colonial logic of elimination + made possible through urbicide and expulsion theconversation.com/the-gaza-riv...

You can now subscribe to the Global Corridor newsletter on Substack and keep up with the ever interesting news + work focused on an ever-changing landscape of global infrastructure

Online Book Launch: The Gated City: Planning Practice and the Challenges of Urban Fragmentation in Mexico, from Emma Regina Morales 🕰️ Wednesday 24th September, 5-6pm BST sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit... #UrbanRiches

'This is the Manchester city centre set to expand into six new areas as council redraws map' Gentrification, demolition + surging rents will hit inner city neighbourhoods at speed as the capitalist urban development machine requires more + more land www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

BREAKING: Police start to arrest protestors under the Terrorism Act for holding signs which say "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action" Over a thousand people are risking arrest today, despite the state's best efforts to deter us.

You can now subscribe to the Global Corridor newsletter on Substack and keep up with the ever interesting news + work focused on an ever-changing landscape of global infrastructure

"China's African port expansion, the end of the Line? Trump's self-named corridor, CPEC, Not Just Roads and Pakistani gateways." My second Global Corridor newsletter is now on Substack providing news + views on global infrastructure. globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...

Genocide led real estate development brought to you by Boston Consulting Group... ...opening up new frontiers for the global asset investor class (on the crushed bodies + former homes of Gaza). www.ft.com/content/2206...

I’ve joined nearly 5,000 university workers to sign this letter. Essential for the UK Government to act now and ensure the Gaza based students can start their studies

Two positions available with the journal Urban Geography: Frontline Editor & Social Media Editor. Good people to work with! www.urbangeographyjournal.org/news