Tom Goodfellow

New podcast episode now available

URBAN ROBOTICS BY STEALTH

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plus a range of other issues as usual

All recorded before the weekend - how things change

With Aidan While, @itsbethperry.bsky.social and @goodfellowtom.bsky.social

How can we see and understand complex and volatile cities?

How might we use and analyse photographs and archives in urban research?

Listen to latest #urbanradar podcast with @xuniamortimer.bsky.social and @felipemagallhaes.bsky.social

With @itsbethperry.bsky.social @goodfellowtom.bsky.social

I would say yes, Brad!! And definitely with the predominance of repressive rather than ‘generative’ measures…

SERIES TWO of Urban Radar now available on all usual streaming platforms

Check out latest offering from @itsbethperry.bsky.social and @goodfellowtom.bsky.social with guest Erika Garcia Fermin

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#Greenland #Iran #Venezuela #neighbourhoods #disinformation #embassies

Slo-mo handover in action…I’m on a learning curve, and it’s exciting!

Text reads: Welcome Tom Goodfellow Professor of Urban Development and incoming CEO of the African Cities Research Consortium (ACRC) "It's such a privilege to be taking up this position in the most dynamic centre for global development research and teaching in the UK - and at the same time to have the opportunity to lead ACRC into a new phase."

We're delighted to welcome @goodfellowtom.bsky.social to @manchester.ac.uk to take up a dual role as Prof of Urban Development @globaldevinst.bsky.social & CEO of @africancities.bsky.social – a position he will take over from Diana Mitlin in August this year 👉 www.african-cities.org/welcoming-pr...

Thank you! I may well do that…

8. Walking the city with… Jon Silver and urban corridors - Urban Studies Corridors, inscriptions, and urban studies careers. Caitlin takes to the streets of Manchester with local Jon Silver, discussing the trajectory of urban theorising between Norths and Souths. Jon exper...

I've joined Caitlin Morrissey and Michele Acuto to record an episode for season 2 of the Urban Studies Journal podcast Walking the City With...

You can listen here www.urbanstudiesjournal.com/podcast/8-wa...

Here's the wrap up of #urbanradar for 2025!

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- #Bogota's care blocks
- #Subtervising
- Scrapping trial by #jury
- #US #Security Strategy
- #Australia's #social #media ban
- #Syrian cities one year on

@itsbethperry.bsky.social @goodfellowtom.bsky.social

Radar 11: CHILD LABOUR AND DISINFORMATION (+immigration policy, +COP30 in Belem, +ticket touts, +urban statistics and more…)

Another episode of #urbanradar now available, just in time for weekend listening

RADAR 11: CHILD LABOUR AND DISINFORMATION

With Julia Moses and Dani Madrid-Morales

And of course @goodfellowtom.bsky.social & @itsbethperry.bsky.social

open.spotify.com/episode/4JFq...

@unishefplayer.bsky.social

Brilliant to see all these pieces online together - and it was such a pleasure to engage with @shakirahh.bsky.social’s fantastic book on urban Rwanda, ‘Master Plans and Minor Acts’. Highly recommended!!

This looks like an excellent event on solidarity and migration - free to all to attend, no sign-up needed!

Radar 10: GREEN RESURGENCE & GAZA RECONSTRUCTION (+Brexit, +rats, +Louvre heist, +AI Friend and more)

@un-habitat.bsky.social World Cities Day! And another episode of #urbanradar

open.spotify.com/episode/3VgE...

Tune in for @goodfellowtom.bsky.social and @itsbethperry.bsky.social talking @zackpolanski.bsky.social with @mattflinders.bsky.social, & Gaza reconstruction with Said Zaaneen

Feature 9: HUMANITY'S URBAN FUTURE - A conversation with AbdouMaliq Simone and Ash Amin

A very special episode of #UrbanRadar #podcast to share this Urban October.
open.spotify.com/episode/20A1...

HUMANITY'S URBAN FUTURE with @xazaaradjame.bsky.social and Ash Amin

Featuring work funded by CIFAR with the @britishacademy.bsky.social

So privileged to have these two reviewing my book for this forum!

Sneak preview of @samburgum.bsky.social speaking to #urbanradar podcast hosts @itsbethperry.bsky.social and @goodfellowtom.bsky.social on this month's radar

And here's @simonrushton.bsky.social chatting to the very same @goodfellowtom.bsky.social and @itsbethperry.bsky.social on Nepal's uprising and local peace-building processes in Colombia

New #OpenAccess article from @goodfellowtom.bsky.social, @zhengli-huang.bsky.social and Metadel Sileshi Belihu:

FORCE AND ASPIRATION: #Mobility and #Class Formation on the #Peripheries of #Addis Ababa

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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It was a great pleasure and privilege to have this small book review forum on ‘Politics and the Urban Frontier’ in @urbanstudiesjournal.com. Thank you to all involved!

Radar 9: CONFLICT & URBAN TERRITORY - FROM UK HOMELESSNESS TO UPRISING IN NEPAL (+West Bank settlements, +witchcraft, +cars and more)

New episode of #UrbanRadar!

In this month’s scan of global urban news, @itsbethperry.bsky.social and @goodfellowtom.bsky.social discuss #HOMELESSNESS in the UK with @samburgum.bsky.social, before turning to the #UPRISING in Nepal with @simonrushton.bsky.social:

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Such a fun paper to work on - from our project on ‘Living the Urban Periphery’ in #Ethiopia and South Africa

This paper focuses on the former, and on how people’s ability to move or not move is shaping their social class identities.

Not in Sheffield? This one is for you

Online book launch of "The Gated City"
Wednesday 24th September, 1700-1800 BST

Register below...

@qurbanist.bsky.social @shardarozena.bsky.social @invisiblemapper.bsky.social @itsbethperry.bsky.social

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In Sheffield - in person event on 18th September - register below

@africancities.bsky.social @goodfellowtom.bsky.social @itsbethperry.bsky.social

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Radar 8: SCHOOLING AND SURVIVING IN ENGLAND AND SUDAN (+policing/protests, +flags/fakes, +mining and cities on the move)

If you missed #urbanradar over the summer, here is a bumper episode

- Christina Tatham on #multilingualism and #play in and out the classroom in superdiverse urban communities

- Cathy Wilcock on #civil war, #diaspora formation and music scenes in #Sudan

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Working Paper 31 - ACRC Addis Ababa: City report | Tegegne Gebre-Egziabher

Read the full Addis Ababa city report 👇

www.african-cities.org/publications...

New research: Advancing urban reform opportunities in Addis Ababa - ACRC A new ACRC report, led by Tegegne Gebre-Egziabher, uncovers the interplay of politics, systems and urban development in the fast-growing capital city, shining a light on the challenges facing resident...

Providing an overview of Addis Ababa’s complex and contested urban development landscape, the report highlights pertinent development challenges facing city residents and presents potential interventions to address them.

Read our blog post for a summary 👇

www.african-cities.org/new-research...

What drives land value change in African cities? Unlocking value and the prospects for progressive reform - ACRC The urgency of developing more effective mechanisms to capture rising land values for urban infrastructure and services is now widely acknowledged. It is also accepted that this is highly challenging.

📍 What really drives land value change in African cities?

@goodfellowtom.bsky.social explores how findings from our land and connectivity research challenge some of the dominant notions on which ideas of value capture are based 👇
www.african-cities.org/what-drives-...

A very special listen this one!

Latest Urban Radar feature now out...

With Mona Fawaz (Beirut Urban Lab) & Nausheen Anwar (Karachi Urban Lab)

"Urban Labs in Times of Conflict and Post-Truth" - a critical, unsettling and inspiring listen...

@itsbethperry.bsky.social @goodfellowtom.bsky.social

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Indeed - to be continued!!