New piece with Simon Marvin & Jon Rutherford on 'infrastructural extensions'. We examine how infrastructure is being stretched into new domains (the elemental, care, more-than-human, cyber-physical, & neurotechnical). Open access in @ijurresearch.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Check out this collection - a great opportunity to dig into the @uaanews.bsky.social archives and explore how scholars from a variety of disciplinary and geographic vantage points have engaged with the right to the city

How have the @uaanews.bsky.social's Journal of Urban Affairs and Journal of Race, Ethnicity and the City debated and advanced the #RightToTheCity? Find out in my editorial review: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The political, institutional, and technological limits of infrastructural regionalism on Europe's high-speed rail network: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Cocktail time in the cubicles! www.theguardian.com/business/202...

"Sometimes big infrastructure is necessary, but at all times it is a threat to democracy. This is why governments should approach it with caution and scepticism. Instead, they act as hucksters for corporate boondoggles." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Pleased to see Infrastructural Times on the bookshelf, especially w/chapters by @jessicadicarlo.bsky.social @xazaaradjame.bsky.social, and Schindler & Kanai exploring temporalities connected to the BRI and Chinese-led global infrastructure development. bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/infrastructu...

The politics & temporalities of infrastructure collapse/repair: Don't rush into fixing Germany “because that would fuel inflation but not produce real value or better bridges... analyse where the investment... [& don't] promise more than it’s possible to deliver” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Something of a primer for "Extended Mobility and the City as a Commons" by Lucia Capanema and Romulo Orrico - forthcoming in the @uaanews.bsky.social Rights to the City book series: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Check out my reflections on NOIR's session on infrastructural regionalism and inclusion at the @regstud.bsky.social annual meeting this month. cc @mrglassphd.bsky.social @jpaddie.bsky.social www.noir-rsa.com/post/inclusi...

So much fun today @regstud.bsky.social 2025 co-chairing a NOIR session on infrastructural regionalism and inclusion with @mrglassphd.bsky.social featuring some excellent presentations on innovation districts, Auckland, and freight rail in Brazil.

This spring marks a turning point for us at @yorkuniversity.bsky.social as @rkeil.bsky.social and Linda Peake retire after 30+ yrs shaping critical urban scholarship. To honour them, we’re launching 2 endowment funds for early scholars💥. If you've been inspired by them: www.yorku.ca/cityinstitut...

Infrastructure out of time www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Suburbia as sprawl, apotheosis of neoliberal society&space: "The aesthetic of Trumpism is sprawl–which had already infected the [US] long before the Maga movement ... Perhaps there is something authentic to suburban sprawl... But as everyday life [it's] deadening" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Thanks @fennaimara.bsky.social for the very generous review of Infrastructural Times in Space and Polity! Paperback version coming soon from @brisunipress.bsky.social: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/infrastructu...

Delighted to see my review of @jpaddie.bsky.social @mrglassphd.bsky.social & @jen-nelles.bsky.social excellent 'Infrastructural Times: Temporality and the making of global urban worlds' out. Empirically specific and theoretically expansive, this book deserves to be read! doi.org/10.1080/1356...

Today is bleak, but (via Engels) socialist politics means we (still) live in a rare era of world-historic possibility to abolish poverty & deliver freedom to all. MLK asserted similar w/, "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” Let's keep fighting.

"State as Auteur" is an incisive, provocative paper. I had the exciting opportunity to engage @ayonadatta.bsky.social and @fennaimara.bsky.social's argument in @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social and my commentary, "Time and the State in Digital Society", is out now: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

What a treat from @urbanpolitical.bsky.social Santa! I had a great conversation about #IntfrastructuralTimes w/ @fennaimara.bsky.social, Himnashu Burte & Hanna Baumann: lots of insights & food for thought. Check out the podcast & the book, too! @mrglassphd.bsky.social @jen-nelles.bsky.social

New - if not first - article in Dialogues on Digital Society: "State as Auteur" by @ayonadatta.bsky.social and @fennaimara.bsky.social exploring timing - the synchronising of disparate events - as a mechanism of state craft in Kenya's digital transformations. doi.org/10.1177/2976...

We are pleased to announce the 12th Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium, to be held May 2nd, 2025 at Morehouse College! See the link below for more info on our call for proposals, which are due January 24th! atlantastudies.org/2024/12/09/c...

Call for Abstracts: join us in Porto at #RSA25 for our special session on inclusive infrastructures and the dynamics of regional transformation. Details below... @jpaddie.bsky.social @jen-nelles.bsky.social @pillnj.bsky.social

🚨We're recruiting a new Director of the Urban Studies Institute at GSU. This is a great opportunity to lead an interdisciplinary urban studies unit in the heart of downtown #Atlanta! I'm chairing the search so reach out if you have Qs & please share widely: facultycareers.gsu.edu/postings/5053

"Wir fahren, fahren, fahren auf der Autobahn" - Driving the infrastructural region... www.theguardian.com/music/2024/n...

Georgia State is going to be undertaking some rapid university-led urban development over the next two years, aimed at creating a 'true college town downtown' (rather than a true #urban university... 🤔) news.gsu.edu/magazine/cre...

Now out in Urban Studies: @mrglassphd.bsky.social & I question how infrastructural #futures are understood and materialized by key planning stakeholders in southwest Pennsylvania & make the case for ‘seeing like a region’ when examining infrastructural change journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Now with an official home in the Journal of Urban Affairs, check out mine and Kevin Ward's commentary on the *state* of #urban research, where we argue (amongst other things) that the location where we perform and write urban studies matters. Eprints here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/6GAP2...

How are the changing dynamics of American urbanization impacting the landscape of post-secondary education? And how might #CommunityColleges support more inclusive & just urban futures? I've some thoughts in New Directions for Community Colleges, out now: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

More blue sky #NOIR thinking!

Infrastructural Times: Temporality and the Making of Global Urban Worlds - co-edited with @mrglassphd.bsky.social @jen-nelles.bsky.social - is out April 23 and available to order from @brisunipress.bsky.social now! Check it out here: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/infrastructu...