It was a true honor to talk to legendary political scientist Adam Przeworski about how he understands the present crisis, what he learned from Chile and Poland, and how to move forward from here www.dissentmagazine.org/article/how-...

ICE shooter Joshua Jahn's politics aren't what's being reported, three longtime former friends tell me. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-sh...

The first high-rises of Lund. Helge Zimdahl, 1958-60. There are three of these cooperatively owned buildings hovering above the villas of the most push area of the city in what used to be the gardens of the Bishop's faux tudor castle-like estate (parts of the gardens are preserved as a public park).

🚨 New on Substack, my post on Dawson's Heights, Kate Macintosh's masterpiece: municipaldreams.substack.com/p/dawsons-he...

New paper, on environmental protests, infrastructure and the values connected to car-use.

Zohran Mamdani wins the internet for the day and probably the week and month. Spoiler alert: the super rich are unhappy that Mamdani will win in a landslide

I'm excited to share the final cover for Silicon Empires and very grateful for the kind words that others have offered. Pre-order here: www.amazon.co.uk/Silicon-Empi...

Great piece

Höganäs former People's Park (Sweden). Founded circa 1906 by local unions, mostly from the port, nearby mines and ceramics works I would assume. Sold to the municipality more than a decade ago, and redeveloped as a public park and housing area. Many traces in the landscape, however, remain.

Hello new followers! Interested in the history of #antifascism and resistance? Here is a short thread about the edited volumes and special issues that I have had the privilege to co-edit. All containing contributions by stellar authors with new exciting perspectives. Share if you like! /1

Halmstad People's Park (Sweden): built by trade union 1905 and used by them for many decades. What remains is a public park slated for housing development, loudly opposed by a group of locals. Halmstad, particularly its port and railroad, was in the early 20th century a key node of labor militancy.

Become my new colleague! Two weeks left to send in your application. #envpol #envhist #greensky #envhum @environmentalpol.bsky.social @pollenetwork.bsky.social @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social @cnsjournal.bsky.social

Phil A. Neel launched a substack: “Geopolitics has, quite literally, become a bread-and-butter issue across much of the globe, [...] Whether ecological, economic, or political, it appears that the “planetary” is now, in every sense, immediate.” philneel.substack.com/p/welcome-to...

That feeling when you get physical copies of your new book. Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future. Written with @kaiheron.bsky.social and @bertrussell.bsky.social for @plutopress.bsky.social. Available for pre-order now: www.plutobooks.com/978074535135...

We’re thrilled to share the jacket for Thomas Pynchon’s highly anticipated new novel Shadow Ticket, coming October 7, 2025! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/316427...

Just back from a great conference organised by @globalurbanhistory.bsky.social at CMS/TU Berlin. Presented our work on concrete, brutalism, heritage and sustainability with KEG postdoc Alva Zalar. Interesting debates and interventions, and nice opportunity for me to practice photography!

Honoured to have ben entrusted to write up my thoughts on Sharad Chari's wonderful "Gramsci at sea" for @city-journal.bsky.social alongside Moreno-Tabarez review of Chari's other new book, "Apartheid remains". Both books are outstanding, although in very different ways... doi.org/10.1080/1360...

If was fantastic to have @goingmedieval.bsky.social on the podcast (Culture, Power, Politics) to talk about why everyone should stop talking about techno-feudalism. Episode is here or can be found in any podcast app: culturepowerpolitics.org/2025/07/04/w...

The relentless & vast machine-like production of writing arguing 'compact density is good' that list-off a set of 'ingredients' (trees, walkability, better health, nice places) but which either refuse or don't see that the neighbourhoods highlighted are *almost always rich* melts my noggin-brain.

Brutalism is for the children. (Building: Landskrona Konsthall, Sten Samuelson and Fritz Jaenecke, 1963; Garden design: Ulla Molin 1989)

Assistant professorship in Human ecology at the dept of Human Geography at Lund Uni just out. Please circulate to anyone working with nature-human relationships who might would want to work out of Lund. Personally hoping people interested in planning issues apply! lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

“I personally was pretty surprised, actually, at how efficient the government was,” Sahil Lavingia told NPR's Juana Summers.

After the drinks before the canceled Zohran Mamdani all-night election watch party in Malmö.

Glad midsommar...

Cirkel K bensinstation 2025 i Lund eller... 1938 i Nuremberg?

Nice to come back from fieldwork to see this on my doorstep. While official release date is July 1, books are shipping from warehouse if you are interested. Below in the thread is a 30% discount code.

The Role of Planning in ‘Anti-Democratic’ Times www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplannin...

Great to be part of a @legalgeolsa.bsky.social meet up yesterday where we organised, discussed and debated. Lots of great future plans for conferences, workshops and perhaps even a journal for Legal Geography. Watch this space! www.clg.place

This little gem on neoliberal urbanism arrived today. Huge congrats to Burcu, Melissa och Cristina, and happy to see my work on how the everyday uses of Bo01/Västra hamnen in Malmö during their first few years came to shape urban design in the area. Will figure out a way to share the chapter...

Det är en skandal med akademisk ledning som är så ängslig inför politisk klåfingrighet. Alla forsknings- & undervisningsinstitutioner har något att lära av det här. Och nu när vi hade behövt höra @rparsi.bsky.social verkar medier inte våga (?) bjuda in honom.

There is nothing constructive, empowering, redeeming, useful, or valuable in “I told you so” comments on important political developments.

Congress of one of Europe's largest unions - Kommunal - calls on Swedish government and EU to suspend EU-Israel association agreement and impose sanctions over Israel's violations of human rights in Gaza calling it genocide www.kommunal.se/nyhet/uttala... @epsu.bsky.social @cmstahl.bsky.social

@lund-university.bsky.social is recruiting! We have opened 15 positions as assistant professors and 10 positions as guest professors. All our faculties are part of this recruitment campaign. Apply and become my colleague or forward the information. www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund...

Come work with us! Human Geo at Lund U is looking for TT assistant prof no more than five years from their Phd who is interested in planning and have some knowledge about LLM, AI, spatial modelling etc: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/.... Please share widely, and get in touch with Qs if you have em.

📢 new paper klaxon 📢 @felixkersting.bsky.social and I reconsider agrarian inequality in German and Swedish history and the role played (or not played) by landlordism in the road to fascism in Germany and democracy in Sweden. I’m very happy about this one! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

For context: a really good essay by our former research assistant Miriam Negash on Rosengård, development strategies, cultural heritage, planners' systematic blindness to of aesthetics of this landscape and her experience within a prestige renewal project: urbanmattersjournal.com/field-notes-...

Some more pics from same walk, this time from Rosengård (also mostly Thorsten Roos, but with Bror Thornberg, for MKB ca 1962-1963, ie before "Miljonprogrammet").

Almgården, Malmö. Built 1969-72 (Thorsten Roos). The most Le Corbusier part of Malmö, to my mind. Almgården is where Malmö's far right in the early 00s broke into the mainstream, and located just next to Herrrgården. First experiment with manual exposure settings on my brand new second hand Ricoh.

Well done Lund University!

#OpenAccess in Transactions: '(Re)wilding London: Fabric, politics, and aesthetics' by @jonnyjjt.bsky.social et al. This paper sets out an agenda for future geographical research into urban rewilding. doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky #geo

"the University Board of Uppsala University has called on the Swedish government to explicitly condemn Israel’s actions, to immediately resume its funding of UNRWA, and to actively work within the EU to take all available measures (including imposing sanctions [...]) to prevent a genocide in Gaza."

The Spanish government ordered Airbnb to remove nearly 66,000 listings from its platform, widening a crackdown on tourist rentals as it seeks to alleviate a housing crisis that has become among the worst in Europe.

More Berlin, this time the almost complete retrofit of the GDR era Haus der Statistik on Alex, being completed as a public-common partnership of sorts between various civil society and municipal authorities after being reclaimed from speculators by squatters(!) provoking new municipal plans:

Very happy that Marcus Falk, for whom I was first doctoral supervisor, successfully defended his PhD thesis yesterday! It’s called “Wealth, Consumption, and Industriousness: Evidence from southern Sweden, 1570-1860” and you can find the introduction here: lucris.lub.lu.se/ws/portalfil...

More Berlin. The Bode museum has Klee's Angelus Novus on loan for a small exhibition on Benjamin, Klee and the angel of history celebrating the 80 year anniversary of the NS regime's fall. Literally cited that Benjamin text just days before finding out about the exhibition, so pretty cool to see it!

I wrote about close reading. What it is, why it matters, and what John Guillory gets right and wrong in his recent On Close Reading. Offers a sneak peek of a little of what @johannawinant.bsky.social and I are up to in our forthcoming Close Reading for the 21C www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Back from Berlin field trip with 35 great LU planning students. One of the highlights was stumbling into the "Future Imperfect: Armenian Art from Aftermaths" at the Gorki. Particularly loved this textile by Khoren Matevosyan. Highly recommend going if you are passing through the city this summer:

New paper on 🏠💥 "Housing Crisis or Immiseration? Revisiting the Housing Question under Urban Capitalism" With Timothy Blackwell in @antipodeonline.bsky.social

Filing this under Hauntological Crimes against Architecture.