Another essential starter pack. While many of the world’s problems have originated in the Global North, it is the Global South that bears the most severe consequences of the planetary crisis. Follow these scholars to broaden your perspective & deepen your understanding of global urban challenges.

And don’t forget to support the good fellow urbanists in Canada!

Highly recommended 😀

Huge congratulations to Harvard’s Naomi Oreskes for winning the Volvo prize! She is a pioneer in unmasking the financial interests and methods behind climate science denial. I’m proud to have published with her how Exxon knew exactly what they were doing. www.environment-prize.com/laureates/na...

Geography in the service of the imperial state: Putin speaking at the Russian Geographical Society emphasising the political utility of mapping and geographical knowledge

Today is the official UK publication day for Silicon Empires! I'm excited to have it out and hear what people think. There's an enormous amount happening every day in AI, and it's difficult to gain a stable perspective. I wrote the book to try and get some secure hold on that constant flux. 🧵

Full CFP is here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

And here, for our first day on Bluesky, is a Geography at Newcastle starter pack, which will develop as our presence on Bluesky does. Please do follow us! go.bsky.app/GEt9bGr

Kolumne: In der Europäischen Union gibt es offenbar massive Bestrebungen bestimmter Staaten und Industrieverbände, die gigantischen Subventionen für das schädlichste Geschäftsmodell der Menschheitsgeschichte - CO2 - fortzuschreiben.Das wäre auch ökonomisch extrem schädlich. 1/2

Discussing the development and planning of industrial areas in the Forum Südwest of the #ARL yesterday. It was followed by a super-interesting guided visit of the #GatewayGardens district in @frankfurt.de . Never seen an office town like this, with its strange mix of ambitious architecture ...1/

Betreff: Politbarometer. Merz sagt in einem Satz fünf Sachen: 1) Es gibt „Probleme im Stadtbild“, 2) diese hängen mit Menschen zusammen, 3) die keinen dauerhaften Aufenthaltsstatus haben, 4) nicht arbeiten, 5) und sich nicht an unsere Regeln halten.

New book forum published in the @geographers.bsky.social Review of Books, with great contributions by Rachel Bok, @jeromeroos.bsky.social, Juvaria Jafri together with Nassar Alnassar, Henry Wai-chung Yeung, Angus McNelly, and @proufos.bsky.social @campolis.bsky.social Link below👇:

Delighted to announce the return of the Bloomsbury Geographer, the student-run journal of @uclgeography.bsky.social! Some of the new team of editors and authors met today to plan new posts for the journal. We will keep you informed when we have that new material for you on bloomsburygeographer.com

Ein Gespräch von drei Hoover Historikern. Sehr interessant, sollte man sich in Deutschland anschauen, wenn man Aspekte der aktuellen US Situation verstehen will. Vor allem als Deutscher fühlt man sich an das konservative Bürgertum der frühen 1930er Jahre erinnert.

🎙️🏘️"(Re-)Politicising Housing. Podcast from our 'Where is Urban Politics?' series out now! Organised by Faculty of Spatial Sciences (@frw-rug.bsky.social), University College Groningen, @agricolaschool.bsky.social from 2024-26 ▶️ Tune in: urbanpolitical.online/98-repolitic...

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

So often been passing by the impressive buildings of the #EuropeanCourtofJustice —thanks to the 2025 Open Day, we got insight from inside … for the first time. Very interesting.

@nminkmar.bsky.social : „Es gibt keine Stadt, die nicht durch Migration groß wurde.“

Worth the watch.

Can somebody pls let me in …?

📣 Journée d’étude Espace & Interactions Le 14 novembre à Champs-sur-Marne avec 3 membres de @geographie-cites.bsky.social : @fbahoken.bsky.social Université Gustave Eiffel Marion Maisonobe @cnrsshs.bsky.social et J. Gravier Laboratoire ThéMA geographie-cites.cnrs.fr/journee-detu...

@desireefields.bsky.social speaking at @liser.lu on platformed finance, investment and what it means for agents and societies.

Liebe Leute, bitte, bitte bestellt eure Bücher beim lokalen Buchhändler. Herr Bezos wartet nur darauf, dass unsere kleinteilige, vielfältige Einzelhandelsstruktur kaputt geht.

Russia's war against Ukraine has brought Russia's coal industry to its knees. Another instance of how nostalgic 'greatness' projects accelerate the death of the material foundations of past 'greatness.' www.ft.com/content/7c62...

Climate technocrats would do a lot better if they stopped talking abt climate science and economic growth and started talking about economic inequality. Also, why are we listening Captain carbon pricing?

🟢 Wir laden ein zu unserer Buchvorstellung "Grundeigentum verpflichtet. Warum wir eine gemeinwohlorientierte Bodenpolitik brauchen I 📅 Mi, 29.10.2025 I 🕕 18.30 – 20.00 Uhr I📍Schumannstr. 8, 10117 Berlin oder im Livestream 🎬 I Infos & Anmeldung ⬇️ calendar.boell.de/de/event/gru...

From the Caribbean to the Pacific: piracy is rising in Latin America. This continent accounts for 10-15% of incidents worldwide. The attacks are in critical zones, such as the Gulf of Mexico, the Venezuelan/Colombian Caribbean and the Pacific coast of Ecuador/Peru. insightcrime.org/news/caribbe...

This week, the so-called "Bauturbo" (buildung boost) (federal law) is set to be passed in #Germany to accelerate zoning processes. The problem: The law promotes urban sprawl and land speculation while failing to secure affordable housing. #Bauturbo

The Venn diagram of urban density and average household GHG emissions is pretty much a circle. Interesting study on “Mapping household GHG emissions in the Greater Golden Horseshoe” from the University of Toronto School of Cities schoolofcities.utoronto.ca/mapping-hous...

Just returning from the #ARL’s 2nd “Brussels Talk”, a special xchange format over lunch. This year on “European Land Policies”, jointly organized with the state of Lower Saxony’s EU-representation. Opened by the Minister Melanie Walter herself.

Insurance is the canary in the coal mine of what the future will most likely hold….

Parfois c’est ce qui nous est le plus proche que l’on met le plus de temps à voir. Pendant quinze ans j’ai cartographié les grandes fortunes mondiales, objectivé leurs techniques pour contourner l’impôt dans les paradis fiscaux, du Luxembourg aux îles vierges britanniques... 🧵

Weitere Splitter zum Kongress der @dgsoziologie.bsky.social von @larsdoepking.bsky.social, Hannah Schmidt-Ott und Karsten Malowitz sind online: www.soziopolis.de/dossier/duis... #dgs2025

Leaving behind the prestigious #Academiegebouw of Utrecht University—today packed with hundreds of graduates celebrating their academic achievements.

Die logistische Neuordnung der globalen Zirkulation von Waren und Menschen ist in vollem Gange und erzeugt neue Räume. Jetzt neu erschienen – eine neue Theorie des #Imperialismus: »Der Rest und der Westen. Kapital und Macht in einer multipolaren Welt«: dietzberlin.de/der-r...

Il y a quelques années, le groupe CollecTerr, composé d’étudiants et doctorants de Genève, avait mis en ligne une énorme quantité de ses écrits librement sur l’Archive Ouverte de l’Université de Genève. Merci à elle•eux, merci à lui pour cet héritage. archive-ouverte.unige.ch/contributor/...

Prof Claude Raffestin has died. RIP He taught me when I was an undergraduate in Geneva. A formidable force. More info on him here (happy to send pdf): Fall, J. J. (2012). Reading Claude Raffestin: Pathways for a Critical Biography. Env. & Plan. D, 30(1), 173-189. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1068/...

Board-Meeting (“Präsidium”) of the ARL/Academy of Territorial Development in the Leibniz-Society, first (and last?) time at Utrecht University, Netherlands.

And now “Orange Bike Ride”, sponsored by Dutch Embassy and Dutch Cycling Embassy 🇳🇱

I wonder whether this is better. #urbandesign Better streets for better towns.

An der TU Dortmund finden am 25. und 26. Juni 2026 die zweiten "Dortmund Disputes on Economic Justice" statt, bei denen es um Fragen wirtschaftlicher Gerechtigkeit, der Märkte, des Eigentums, der Steuern und der Demokratie am Arbeitsplatz geht. Gesucht... https://www.theorieblog.de/?p=30033

Cars—or rather, their drivers—tend to go wherever they can. When municipalities want to protect sidewalks and avoid this, such measures seem necessary. However, they don't qualify for the 'City Beautiful'-award. (Sanem, Belval, 🇱🇺).

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...

Lösen Stadt-Land-Debatten die Ost-West-Debatten ab - 35 Jahre nach Beginn der Deutschen Einheit? Darüber diskutieren am 2. Abend des @historikertag.bsky.social Marcus Böick, Uta Bretschneider, Alexander Leistner & unser Kollege @christophlorke.bsky.social im Haus der Geschichte Bonn im vollen Haus.

Starke Aussagen @franzini.bsky.social @blick.ch über #Monacoisierung in Zug. Die soziale Verdrängung v.a. von Familien ist eine Folge der #Tiefststeuerpolitik. Je tiefer die Steuern, desto höher die Mieten. Jene fallen 1mal an, diese 12mal. @mieterverbandch.bsky.social www.blick.ch/politik/mona...

Geography needs to make a case for government support of knowledge production as central to a better future. Now is the time to forcefully articulate the value of geographic inquiry and a research agenda for a better future. Read more from AAG President @williamgmoseley.bsky.social:

New paper published in @nature.com Climate Change Structural limitations of the decarbonization state Ulrich Brand, Daniel Hausknost, @alinabrad.bsky.social, Gabriel Eyselein, @mathiaskrams.bsky.social, Danyal Maneka, @melaniepichler.bsky.social & @etienneschneider.bsky.social. #Polycrisis

@geographers.bsky.social check out the great piece @derekgeographer.bsky.social co-wrote! theconversation.com/world-maps-g...