plaNext, the journal of the AESOP YAs just turned 10. The Editorial Board invited me and the other founding members to reflect on this decade. journals.aesop-planning.eu/index.php/pl...

Probably nothing better than this single line to explain why most of the North-American elite in social sciences is, quite simply, racist garbage

Great stuff by @versobooks.bsky.social: Harvey at 90, a series if posts honouring David Harvey's oeuvre in celebration of his 90th birthday. www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/h...

the call for @ISA_RC21 Vienna is up and running. At #95, you'll find the call for the unpretentiously titled session "Still arguing over gentrification? Urban theory for the end of the world (or capitalism)" - chaired by me and Niccolò Cuppini. Go for it! rc21-vienna2026.org/call-for-abs...

Assistant Prof job in history of science (related to water?) at Madison. Strong program, nice town (aside from winter) jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69456

They had misread the planetary in planetary urbanisation ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...

Cairo road, by Sara Salem. Powerful intervention on street naming and de/colonial futures on @antipodeonline.bsky.social antipodeonline.org/2025/11/06/c...

Rereading Elizabeth Hinton's From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime. Fundamental reading to demify many myths about crime, race and policy (like, that there is fundamental difference between GOP and Dems on crime control) news.harvard.edu/gazette/book...

Outlaw Capital, the poweful book by Jennifer Tucker, reviewed on @antipodeonline.bsky.social antipodeonline.org/2025/10/03/o...

Genocide is a feminist issue - a very promising special issue of Gender, Place and Culture www.tandfonline.com/toc/cgpc20/3...

had this surreal X-spat with a bunch of US liberals+fascists+copbots+(and this is fundamental)cop-scholars on policing, crime - started from the simple affirmation by a liberal activist that the best way to improve public transit in Atlanta is to fill stations with cops... 1/

the NYTimes is an amazing source to see liberals realising worlds exist and sistematically missing the point. But happy to see in NY someone realised the US South exist AND that it is a bit more complicated than hillibillies vs the "Black middle class": www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/o... 1/3

"it may attempt too much, but it definitely delivers a lot of elements from which good, honest, reflexive urban scholarship is made": my review of Saila Maria's Transgressive City-Making and Governance is out on Housing Studies www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We should literally defund all natural and biological science, not to speak of innovation and tech d development, and spend a few decades only reading poetry www.cnn.com/2025/10/17/s...

Best thing of David Harvey's books? It takes usually three or four lines to explain why economists' bullshit is bullshit

non-requested advice: if I was whatever Palestinian organisation will have any role in the management of #Gaza in the next few weeks, the very first thing I would do (right after bringing food and water, but right before anything else) would be to build/update the land registry and cadastre. 1/2

I'm about to fly back to Lisbon after two days at this powerful workshop at TU Darmstadt. Having to speak of violence against the urban, couldn't not using Gaza's urbicide and Trump/Blair plan as example. 1/

The online lecture series “Cities at War” will start in two days. A truly global series of event, don't miss it www.urbanstudiesfoundation.org/events/onlin...

Recently started to read Enlightenment Biopolitics A History of Race, Eugenics, and the Making of Citizens, William Max Nelson. Truly great book so far, well written and powerful argument on the paradoxical of "Western" political philosophy press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

"In tune with their time", what a powerful essay by Nasser Abourahme, came out in Summer 24, still extremely relevant - maybe even more after the Trump ceasefire www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/in-t...

Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza and Tomás Espino Barrera, eds. Space, Affect, Memory: Literary geographies in transnational and transdisciplinary comparison - @uclpress.bsky.social, October 2025 (print and open access) uclpress.co.uk/book/space-a...

This is a first, for me: received a manuscript to review (leading journal), full of fabricated references, including one of mine. Now I wish reviews weren't blind to ask the authors what they have in their minds (butterflies, I guess)

"What is radical planning history?" The final version of this piece is out in the latest Planning Perspectives (free access). It calls for alternative critical epistemologies in planning history. Really looking forward to the conversations this might spark! Check it out here: t.ly/m8Erb

First day of term at Cambridge tomorrow. Here's an excellent book to inspire the teachers of the world for this academic year.

Seminário sobre *Contra o comum* com os colegas da Universidade Federal da Bahia. Amanhã, 11h30 (Brasil) / 16h30 (Espanha), aqui: Debate sobre *Contra lo común* con los compañeros de la Universidad Federal de Bahía. Mañana, 11h30 (Brasil) / 16h30 (España), aquí: www.youtube.com/live/dS0j06C...

For 15 years, Portuguese governments have treated housing as a financial asset. Now, the far right government can only resort to using public assets to line the pockets of the most predatory capitalism in Europe www.publico.pt/2025/09/30/e...

the dark side of the Third Way is also the ultimate version of the violence of planetary urbanisation: from state-driven gentrification, to genocide-enabled urban renaissance

the Special Committee on the Housing Crisis in the European Union has released its draft report (link below). I mean, not that I expected much from VdL's far right Commission. But I couldn't imagine it would be so bad. In fact, it could not be worse. Mini thread 👇 1/

planetary urbanisation - and the violence thereof - has never been such a useful conceptual lens, unfortunately

Long life geography, when it knows where to stay. Dispatches from Turin and the Congress of Italian Geography, from institutional shame to grassroots resistance jacobinitalia.it/la-geografia...

beyond the political monstruosity, the Bezalel Smotrich’s recent remarks on "urban renewal" and "real estate bonanza" in Gaza are a treaty on the violence of planetary urbanisation

I'm new here because y'all left Twitter and I'm missing the good old day of scholarly debate there. So I'll be posting some of my works here to hopefully connect with folks with similar interests. 1/

The new issue of Lo Squaderno is out now. It focuses on Alliances and Urban Precarity and it has Tacit Alliances, Not Knowing Togetherness by Lancione and Simone. You can download Lo Squaderno for free here: www.losquaderno.net/.../2025/03/...

An intriguing essay, beautifully written, and a testament to all the limits of reform. In the end, this is not a call for abolition, and that is its limit. But its radical untimeliness - calling for police reform under Trump? - is food for thought criticallegalthinking.com/2025/08/27/t...