Jews and Israel are not the same. Equating them is a propaganda technique | Norman Solomon

UK-Brazil exchange on research and international cooperation in São Paulo 🇧🇷 part week. A great ESRC workshop to develop future collaborations with @luzne.bsky.social and colleagues from Caxias do Sul

‘Get to know the realpolitik of cities and planning’… the final message of Anacláudia Rossbach @un-habitat to all students in a packed lecture theatre today in Paris, at the 2025 Urban School inaugural lecture at Sciencepo sciencespo.fr/fr/evenements/…

Breaking News: President Emmanuel Macron said France would recognize the state of Palestine, making it the first of the G7 nations to do so.

It's been quite something to attend one of the sessions of the WHC @unesco.org 47 COM and witness the discussions on new World Heritage Site nominations.

Between 1970 and 1985, a typical American family could save 10% of their income for about five years and accumulate a 20% down payment on a median-priced existing single-family home, according to a New York Times analysis. As of 2023, it would take nearly eight years, the data shows. nyti.ms/3FKEzkx

"[D]evelopment finance is most needed where investors least want to go." You’ve been given free access to this article from The Economist as a gift. You can open the link five times within seven days. After that it will expire. www.economist.com/middle-east-...

It’s already one week ago but the workshop UOW-UIR in Rabat was successfully completed! Working on urban health and urban conservation to prevent further displacement and demolition!

My island of strangers: a poem | Michael Rosen

Foresight in Bahrain 🇧🇭 can we imagine a future based on alternative system of mobility in the Gulf? Signs of change but still a long way to go .. great to be back for the Prime Minister Fellowship Programme on Urban Sustainability

About to finish the international conference for the post-earthquake of Kahramanmaraş in Turkey 🇹🇷 . Thanks to the scientific committee to give me the honour of the keynote on ‘Post-disaster Urban Futures and the role of Culture in Building Resilience’

“No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue,” Alan Garber, Harvard’s president, said about President Trump's demands. nyti.ms/4jzSS9W

Voices from the Ground, a new public #webinar series on solutions and best practices for sustainable tourism development by UN Tourism! Glad to be Keynote speaker! 🗓 9 April 2025 📍 Heritage in Action: Innovating Cultural Preservation in Villages unwto-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

1/2. 📢 WEBINAR: “Fund for Responding to #LossAndDamage: What to Watch Out for and What Needs to Happen in 2025” 🗓️02 April 2025 ⏰06:00 GMT / 15:00 GMT 📍Zoom ✏️Register for 06:00: :https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/AQCX7Aj7RDmPADCiwLTfWg ✏️Register for 15:00: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Memories of last week at the Jaime Lerner Foundation with a group of enthusiastic people, glad to be supporting the newly launched chair in memory of the most influential planner of our time #jaimelerner. In Curitiba, 🇧🇷 with great women: Ariadne Daher and Ilana Lerner! 💕

Last week we concluded a series of workshops in Caxias do Sul, 🇧🇷, funded by #ESRC on post-disaster preparation, exploring, with local gov, business, and communities, how to enhance collaboration and assess vulnerabilities. Pictures: anticipatory and participatory tools in action @luzne.bsky.social

Just arrived in Caxia do Sul, Brazil 🇧🇷 for the International Week on Resilience, looking forward to work with UCS, the local government and local communities on post disaster recovery after the devastating flooding of May 24, with @luzne.bsky.social 💫

Now published open source💫: ‘advancing effective Global South climate urbanism requires reorienting planning education towards the historical specificity of places and their climate justice issues’ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

NEW: What makes BLUESKY the new “IT” place for Urbanists? It’s pretty significant that the American Planning Association is putting this out there to its huge membership. I was interviewed for it, as was @mitchellsilver.bsky.social & others. Please share! @bsky.app www.planning.org/planning/202...

The UK joined the US in not signing the international AI declaration pledging an open, inclusive and ethical approach to Artificial Intelligence. Earlier today @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social argued that this may seem to be in the UK's interest, but in fact it isn't. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

The UK Government has aligned with Trump and refused to sign the Paris AI Summit’s declaration. It states that AI must be “open, inclusive, transparent, ethical, safe, secure and trustworthy, taking into account international frameworks for all” and “making AI sustainable for people and the planet”

Town Planning Review Volume 96.1 includes reviews of the latest #urbanplanning publications, with contributions from @marccollinson.bsky.social, @lorettaclees.bsky.social, and @giulioverdini.bsky.social Online at: bit.ly/TPR-96-1#urbanplanning @markscott-ucd.bsky.social

“There is no escaping our moral obligations as a wise leader and good neighbor in the interdependent community of free nations—our economic obligations—and our political obligations as the single largest counter to the adversaries of freedom,” -- John F. Kennedy newrepublic.com/article/1910...

Positive vision from the UK Chancellor on growth prospects. But to create "Europe's Silicon Valley" we need to understand what made SV successful in the first place. It was not just reducing barriers but decades of strategic, decentralised and entrepreneurial public investments. 1/13

"Before he died on Dec 29, Carter would go on to work on more than 4,000 homes in 14 countries. His backing helped transform Habitat for Humanity into a household name. Over the decades it has helped 62 million people build or renovate their homes...." epaper.ajc.com/html5/reader...

"[L]earning from planners facing pressing challenges in different places, no matter how imperfect their attempts may be – can still be regenerative for planning practice itself." @giulioverdini.bsky.social review www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/full/10....

Much awaited results of the US and Canadian study of planning school climate action education! Bravo Elisabeth Infield Mark Seasons and Ward Lyles! "Teaching climate change planning: fostering hope while building capacity" - doi.org/10.1080/0269... @climateaction4cities #planningeducation 1/4

⏩How can we shift from correcting market failures to shaping collective goals? IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social outlines a framework to help redesign our economics around the common good in order to tackle global grand challenges. ✍️Read the paper here: https://buff.ly/3t0bnQ9

Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the Islamist group that now leads Syria, has ruled the city of Idlib for years. Residents say they imposed some strict laws, but also heeded some complaints and improved public services. nyti.ms/3BzNJy3

Communities, individuals and entrepreneurs around the world are stepping up with innovative #ClimateAction – updated online features are here: www.unep.org/interactives...

“What missions are designed to achieve are what governments ought to be doing, but very often don’t do” PM Mia Mottley speaking at the Vatican, before our event, which featured a message from Pope Francis, on the need for a new Economics of the #CommonGood. Watch the film: youtu.be/Ev3SOKNNtFI

Habitat's University Network Initiative is on Bluesky: UNHabitat-UNI.bsky.social We are UN-Habitat's bridge to academia advancing research and capacity building for sustainable development.

GEOGRAPHERS for JUSTICE in PALESTINE -- a pre-AAG workshop, Sunday, March 23, 2025, Detroit, MI -- sign up / save the date / share widely docs.google.com/document/d/e...

Well done Nick!

We are now accepting applications for the next round of USF Seminar Series Awards funding! 🏙️ The deadline is 17th February 2025, and you can read more about the call on our website. 📢 Please share 📢 www.urbanstudiesfoundation.org/funding/semi...

"The final deal, agreed in Azerbaijan, will see developed countries pay $300 billion a year by 2035 to help poorer countries mitigate the impact of climate change." www.dw.com/en/cop29-wor...

5th Annual Meeting of the Academic Advisory Board of Union for the Mediterranean #ufm discussing education for the Euro-Med Region and knowledge exchanges. Discovering meantime urban regeneration in Brussels. With colleagues from Turkey, Lebanon, Egypt, Lybia, Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco

✨ #Listen2Cities At launch of the Call to deliver An efficient Local and Subnational Loss and Damage Response 🗣️"We request parties to recognize the role of LRG in addressing climate justice, particularly in climate-vulnerable urban and rural areas"

Architects for #Gaza. Join us at the School of Architecture & Cities, University of Westminster #UoW 19 November 2024 … ‘Practices of Resilience / Practices of Hope’ #palestine

WUF12 is behind us, with lots of memories. Here the panel I chaired on ‘Urban Conservation and traditional buildings skills in Southern Med Countries” #egypt #morocco #jordan #palestine

Time to move from X. Just after WUF12. Not a case.