"Decolonizing planning perspectives: opportunities for the future" -- new article by Juliet Davis and Clare Melhuish in Planning Perspectives www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"Les communs à l’épreuve" -- Le dernier numéro de Dérivations publie une longue entretien sur les liens entre l’histoire de l’urbanisme et la destruction de l'espace social. Merci à Aurélie Delage et Max Rousseau pour cet stimulante échange. derivations.be/numeros/nume...

*Contra lo común: una historia radical del urbanismo* ha sido premiado en la XVII Bienal Española de Arquitectura y Urbanismo @cscae.bsky.social Más información sobre el concepto de esta bienal y proyectos seleccionados aquí: labienal.es

Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!

A thoughtful and generous review of Against the Commons in @soziopolis.bsky.social by Michael Schwind (in German). It includes an interesting opening note on the aversion to radical and Marxist perspectives in contemporary planning studies.

Wie hängen kapitalistische Herrschaftsverhältnisse und staatliche Stadtplanung zusammen? Sehr eng, schreibt Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago @multipliciudad.bsky.social in „Against the Commons. A Radical History of Urban Planning”. Michael Schwind hat das Buch besprochen: www.soziopolis.de/stadtplanung...

“A book that urban planners should read when they occasionally doubt their profession and ask themselves what urban planning should and can achieve” — A positive review of Against the Commons by Klaus R. Kunzmann in disP – The Planning Review (in German). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"ein Buch, das Stadtplaner lesen sollten, die gelegentlich an ihrem Beruf zweifeln und sich fragen, was Stadtplanung erreichen sollte und kann" - Eine positive Rezension von Against the Commons von Klaus R. Kunzmann in disP-The Planning Review. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Looking forward to this one...

"Centros sociales autogestionados: teoría, historia y política urbana" | Seminario online con Miguel A. Martínez, organizado por el Máster en Planeamiento Urbano de @upm-urbanismo.bsky.social @upm.es Miércoles 8 oct, 12:30h, abierto al público a través del enlace del póster.

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...

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

"Elements for a radical planning theory" – presentation of Against the Commons: A Radical History of Planning at EPFL (Lausanne) last year, moderated by Pier Vittorio Aureli. t.ly/N15os The speaker's cam is frozen until min. 13 but audio and slides are okay.

Random things you find on the street... (The Proletariat and Civil Law)

"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

"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

My review, "An introduction to a non-fascist geography", of Chris Philo, Adorno and the Anti-Fascist Geographical Imagination (Edinburgh University Press, 2025) is now published online first in @dialogueshg.bsky.social Dialogues in Human Geography. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... (1/3)

My review of *Urban Planning in Nazi Germany: Attack, Triumph, Terror in the European Context, 1933–1945* - an impressive book by Harald Bodenschatz and his team - journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/.... Drop me a message or request on researchgate if you can't access it.

BOOK LAUNCH: Join us for the launch of our new book, Radical Abundance! 📆 Friday 19th September, 7-9pm 📌 Pelican House, London 🔗 Register your free place: www.in-abundance.org/latest/book-...

Greetings from Brussels, fellow cinephiles.

🏠 New paper published in Progress in Human Geography 🏠 'Urban political ecologies of housing #decarbonisation: Towards radical housing repair' by Melissa García-Lamarca journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies 📄 "On commonist urbanisation: Autonomy and centrality within and beyond the city" ✍️ @multipliciudad.bsky.social 🔍 How do spatial structures mediate the evolution of #commons and what is the role of #urbanisation in this process? 📖 Read here: buff.ly/Ucjq36a

🚨New article alert!! "What is Radical Planning History?" - a manifesto calling for alternative epistemologies in planning history that foreground history from below, critical-theoretical experimentation and grand narratives. Open access in Planning Perspectives: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In Issue 7.1 #LongRead "Exploring the spatial composition of UK social housing", Nick Clare, Joe Kearsey & Shaun French discuss the challenges of organising in, against-and-beyond social housing, through insights from successful & unsuccessful campaigns. radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/explori...

🚨 New paper out in @urbanstudiesjournal.com 🚨 It discusses the notion of commonist urbanization, a spatial force aimed at the reproduction of the common rather than capital. Rejecting defensive tactics, commonism is framed as a totalizing principle spanning multiple scales. (Link below)

OUT NOW: New podcast on three key figures in UK anti-racism – Sivanandan, Gerlin Bean, Len Garrison – showing how their work and ideas speak to sociology and to what it means to be anti-racist. Feat. John Narayan, A.S. Francis, Hannah Ismael. Subscribe: buff.ly/lRwSQSD

#OtD 28 May 1871 the Paris commune, widely considered the most significant early working-class uprising for socialism, was crushed after a massacre of thousands of people to regain the city. Learn more in this compilation of writings by participants: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

😍 That moment when the proofs arrive... @kaiheron.bsky.social @kmilb.bsky.social

New book on the history of peripheral centralities and suburban utopias/failures, ed. by Nick Phelps, @rkeil.bsky.social & @planographer.bsky.social. Our chapter uses Lefebvre's notion of centrality to examine Madrid's informal settlements and their impact on urban policy under a Fascist regime.

Conocíamos a Costis Hadjimichalis por sus imprescindibles trabajos sobre la geografía de la crisis urbana en el Sur de Europa. Ahora llega esta maravilla mostrando su faceta de viajero y dibujante, siempre con las ciudades como protagonistas -- publicado por @orienteymediter.bsky.social

🧱✨ Welcome to the Radical Housing Journal ✨🧱 We publish research that refuses neutrality, sides with struggles for housing justice, and stands with people fighting displacement, precarity, and exploitation. 📢 Read our Manifesto to see what we stand for: radicalhousingjournal.org/about/manife...

Cheers to a solid movie weekend

New essay by Ian Alan Paul on capitalism, fascism, and the search for new ways of life amidst ambient spectacles of death. illwill.com/fascism-and-...

Hot off the press: Urban Planning in Nazi Germany (DOM, 2025), ed. by Harald Bodenschatz, Max Welch Guerra et al -- a massive, richly illustrated and thoroughly researched monograph, the culmination of a long-standing series analyzing the urbanism of European dictatorships.

El miércoles que viene estaré en el @cbamadrid.es presentando «El cuerpo enunciado» con los geniales @jorgedioni.bsky.social y @mariatrevino.bsky.social 😬♥️ Nos vemos por ahí y luego nos tatuamos? 👀

La próxima semana estaré en Coruña presentando *Contra lo común: una historia radical del urbanismo* -- la ciudad lleva tiempo enfrentándose a procesos muy agresivos de destrucción y desplazamiento, seguro que el debate va a ser interesante.

Matteo Polleri and @bernardharcourt.bsky.social: A Conversation on Marx and Foucault (video) www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKAY... marx1313.law.columbia.edu/matteo-polle...

📢Some news: I am now a full Professor of Urban Theory and Planning History. Thanks to all who have supported me, especially those who taught me how hard, but also liberating, cities can be. I'm eager to keep learning... and hopefully to help others learn to fight for better urban futures.

'Transitional Commons' - recording of the panel with Alyssa Battistoni and James McCarthy at the Past & Future Commons conference last year, organized by University of Chicago's CEGU. My presentation -'Theses on Common Space'- starts at min 28. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KcT...

Publico esto en @elpais.com Porque la idea de una región metropolitana que aspira a tener más de 10 millones de habitantes y seguir devorando territorio, se basa en la ciencia ficción urbana y el despotismo castizo elpais.com/espana/madri...

Aparte de alimentos, los huertos producen cosechas intangibles. Estos espacios son mucho más inclusivos que otras experiencias asociativas. Normalmente, la gente entra de una a una y sale de cuatro en cuatro @koiscasadevante.bsky.social elpais.com/clima-y-medi...

🚨 New Report 🚨 'Centripetal Cities: A critique of supply-side urban development' Given the Government's aim to 'unleash growth' we've drawn on over 3 years of research to think about the implications of this agenda for towns + cities Available here www.sheffield.ac.uk/media/87471/...

🚨 We're hiring! 🚨 Senior Lecturer/Professor in Planning. Lead impactful research, teach in accredited planning programs, and engage with external stakeholders. 📅 Apply by: 3rd March 2025 🔗 Apply here: tinyurl.com/y9aac8zp #AcademicJobs #Planning #HigherEdJobs

🚨 We're hiring! 🚨 Senior Lecturer/Professor in Social and Public Policy. Lead cutting-edge research, deliver research-led teaching, and engage with external stakeholders. 📅 Apply by: 3rd March 2025 🔗 Apply here: tinyurl.com/4ew5xk2s #AcademicJobs #SocialPolicy #HigherEdJobs

How do space, urbanization and planning mediate the relationship between commons and capitalism? 'A is for Architecture' just dropped a new interview about my book, Against the Commons: A Radical History of Urban Planning. Available on the usual podcast platforms and here: t.ly/PS637

Hot off the digital press, my article in @antipodeonline.bsky.social on Social Reproduction and the Housing Question onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

No podemos volver al Jardín del Edén pero podemos comprometernos en ajardinar el abismo. Ya solo queda una semana para el pistolezato de salida... rodeado de gente maravillosa en un lugar muy especial. Reserven agendas!!

Welcome to Bluesky comrades from the Urban Theory Lab @urbantheorylab.bsky.social!! #urbanism #urbantheory #urbanization

On class and capitalist urbanization, maybe the second chapter of Sevilla-Buitrago's Against the Commons. It's excellent although the writing can be a bit dense. There are chapter summaries in this review: themetropole.blog/2023/04/04/t...

🎧We just published a new episode of the Urban Political!🎧 Listen via this link or on Spotify! urbanpolitical.online/83-book-pres... It is a new episode from our Think&Drink series in collaboration with the Georg-Simmel-Centre for Urban Studies and @humboldtuni.bsky.social.