📢 Call for Papers 📢 Urban Geography CfP: Urban Geopolitics: Cities, States, and Infrastructures of Power think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

Something new to read as Hurricane Melissa promises another 'unprecedented' and profoundly devastating storm season. With @alejandrodecoss.bsky.social for @urbangeography.bsky.social 🙏🏻

📣 New Special Issue 📣 'New Urban Frontiers' co-edited by Tom Gillespie and Claire Mercer collects four original research articles that can be found in Volume 46 issue 8 out now! www.urbangeographyjournal.org/journal/volu...

@annajurkevics.bsky.social, Contested Territory: A Theory of Land and Democracy beyond Sovereign Bounds - Oxford University Press, April 2025 academic.oup.com/book/59797

Next week, AMCIS hosts profs. Susan Smith and Rebecca Bentley at the University of Amsterdam. They will talk about housing as a driver of inequality, focusing on economic and health inequalities respectively. Join us, more info and registration here: amcis.uva.nl/content/even...

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.

⏳ Just one week left! Don't miss the Hustle Urbanism launch by Dr Tatiana Thieme – stories of hope, resilience, and hustle in Nairobi. 🗓️ 4 June | 🕠 5:30pm | 📍 UCL Geography | tinyurl.com/ucl-hustle #HustleUrbanism #UrbanInnovation

The new issue of Urban Geography is out! And it includes what is probably the only urban geography paper on snakes (probably) 🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍https://www.urbangeographyjournal.org/journal/volume-46-4

📣 New Issue 📣 Taking us from Montenegro to Ramallah via Barcelona and Cape Town www.urbangeographyjournal.org/journal/volu...

The lovely editors of the Urban Geography journal @urbangeography.bsky.social at the end of a long day conferencing in #AAG2025 @geographers.bsky.social

Wikithon against erasure – archiving Palestinian culture and thought Thursday from 1pm at UCL www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

How do bureaucratic actors and non-human elements mediate, shape, and influence the development and implementation of #UrbanClimate adaptation measures? New paper invites urban scholars to explore the bureaucratic life of urban #ClimateResilience buff.ly/ALMGhyb

"Masculinities in transit" a forum on Romit Chowdhury's book City of Men (@rutgersupress.bsky.social) with Sanjay Srivastava, Wangui Kimari, Manali Desai, Greg Noble, @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social, @plyushteva.bsky.social in @urbangeography.bsky.social: www.urbangeographyjournal.org/journal/book...

Every year we organise a prize to recognise Early Career Researchers who publish in the journal. This year we are excited to announce Melissa Heil and Thilo van der Haegen as the winners! www.urbangeographyjournal.org/journal/earl...

'From speculative dreams to ghost housing realities: homelesshomeowners and failed future-making in urban development'. How viable is state entrepreneurialism as an approach to housing provisioning and urban development?

📣 CfP ALGORITHMIC REFUSAL: CREATIVITY AND CODEABILITY IN DIGITAL URBAN GOVERNANCE @rgsibg.bsky.social conference in Birmingham. Organisers: @ayonadatta.bsky.social @fennaimara.bsky.social and Mariana Reyes DEADLINE for abstracts: 21st February 2025. 👇 www.regionalfutures.org/all-outputs/...

New paper by Vicky Habermehl & I on 'the density dialectic', open access in IJURR. Based on our research in London, we explore the value of a dialectical approach to density & densification onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

First post on bsky! Delighted to find my paper coauthored with @hyunshin.bsky.social was published online by @urbanstudiesonline.com on the first day of the year of snake! Hope it to be a good start.

Fantastic to have David Jackman here talking about his fantastic new book, ‘Syndicates & Societies: Criminal Politics in #Dhaka’. Published by @cambridgeup.bsky.social @nabmed.bsky.social @sperishefuni.bsky.social @goodfellowtom.bsky.social

What do sidewalk activities reveal about belonging in socially diverse territories? How is belonging claimed through insurgent citizenship in the face of displacement from private entities wielding state power? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🔍 Els béns comuns urbans, com a forma alternativa d’organització socioeconòmica, han estat poc estudiats a escala metropolitana. La investigadora Laura Calvet-Mir, participa en aq article a @urbangeography.bsky.social on s'analitzen 1.100 iniciatives a l’#amb 👇 🔗 bit.ly/bens-comuns-...

“Our mission in the union is to crush the lawyers.” Stupendous episode of @thedigradio.bsky.social on tenant organizing, with a heap of nonprofit hate that warms my soul (during my 15 degree outdoor morning workout). open.spotify.com/episode/6bMS...

A reminder that the second wave of squatting in West Berlin began on this day in 1979

🚨 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

Fully funded PhD looking at role of churches as community hubs here in Sheffield - check out the link in @msoamsoa.bsky.social post below

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

#CallforPapers Urban & Ageing Population Do you work in the fields of #urban & #ageing studies? Submit your abstract to our special issue #CFP led by Joost van Hoof & Hannah Marston. We welcome critical & thought-provoking submissions. Details in the link below. #AgeFriendly #AgeingPopulation

🏡💸Our colleague @jaimepalomera.bsky.social explains #urbanjustice in the context of #Barcelona's new greened streets, which have driven up #housing prices 😓 Watch the full video series on #Barcelona and #Boston youtube.com/playlist?%F0...

I'll be speaking at this new domestic abuse community of practice on Wednesday- reporting research findings in support of changes in social housing allocation for domestic abuse survivors nationally

🌸 My project has a home! 🌸 🔎 Everyday social reproduction, life stories, intimate spaces, relationships and communities. Read more on the project's aims, methodology and outputs and stay updated on news ⤵️ urbancountertopographies.wordpress.com

Pretty shocking news about new homes in London. Anyone could need accessible #housing and all of us - if we’re lucky - will grow old. So… www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

👀🎥Watch @ianguelovski.bsky.social examine the impact of #masstourism on #Barcelona and other global cities, in the new Canadian documentary series "Overbooked" by @tvodocs.bsky.social

New Online First. 'Metropolitan geographies of urban commons: mappingsocio-economic alternatives in the Metropolitan Area ofBarcelona' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New Online First. 'Metropolitan geographies of urban commons: mappingsocio-economic alternatives in the Metropolitan Area ofBarcelona' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨 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/...

Workshop: Housing, illegality and criminal actors. Emerging illegal practices vis a vis the global housing crisis. September 11-12 2025. Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding Geneva, Switzerland. Abstract submission by March 31, 2025. oce.em-lyon.com/housing-ille... #urbanism #sociology

CfP: 5th Nordic Urban Political Economy Network (NUPE) Meeting. 11-12 June, 2025, Uppsala, Sweden. Abstract submission deadline: 7 March. nordic-urban.org/nupe2025/ #urbanism #sociology

Pleased to share the news that the publisher proofs for The Political Economy of Megaprojects in Asia: State Power, Land Control, Financial Flows, and Dispossession were checked, and the edited book (w/ Dong-Wan Gimm) is coming soon in Feb 2025. More details here: urbancommune.net?p=3145

Some exciting news! A special issue we published on 'The Urbanising Dynamics of Global China Speculation, Articulation, and Translation in Global Capitalism' is being published as a book! www.tandfonline.com/toc/rurb20/4... coming this year www.routledge.com/The-Urbanisi...

Urban Research Horizons: In the second workshop of our kickoff week yesterday, we shared personal and collective urban research agendas, as part of a collaborative process to build a shared vision for #SheffieldUrbanism!

Thanks for sharing The proposed plans include a 20% cut to Geography and Planning academic staff (10-15 FTE) We are all a bit shell-shocked But we will organise and strategise as a School tomorrow

Join us at the AAG preconference hosted by Geographers for Justice in Palestine in Detroit!

🚨 Last reminder! 📢 Applications for the 2025 USF Seminar Series Awards close on 17th February 2025! There's still time to submit your proposal. More info here 👉 ow.ly/8xU650UoJOJ #USFSeminarSeriesAwards #UrbanStudies

New year, new platform, new volume & issue #urbangeography