Globalization and World Cities

✨ I’m pleased to share that I’ve been appointed Professor of Just Urban Futures in the Dept. of Geography and Environment at @lborouniversity.bsky.social

I’m also excited to work with the Climate Compatible Growth #CCG team, who are pretty radical in their impact.

It's been a warm first week :)

New papers on polycentric urban regions GaWC researchers have long shaped agendas on polycentric urban development, from projects including the pioneering ERDF-funded POLYNET to the Regional Studies Association's Polycentric Urban Regions (...

📣 New papers on polycentric urban regions!

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Further detail at www.lboro.ac.uk/study/postgr...

The Master's offers global insights from leading scholars and practitioners in sustainable development and humanitarian action, including @lborouniversity.bsky.social's world-leading STEER Centre with its flagship programmes @ccgprogramme.bsky.social (CCG) and Modern Energy Cooking Services (MECS).

Learn more about @lborouniversity.bsky.social's new Master's in Climate, Energy and Humanitarian Action, developed and delivered together with @unitar.bsky.social

💻 Register for an open webinar at unitar.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Excited that our #network data sharing recommendations have received a commendation from SIPS!

Read the recommendations 👉 www.zacharyneal.com/datasharing

Endorse the recommendations 👉 forms.gle/sgpjyUnkufJF...

TOWN Observatory at Loughborough Loughborough has been the base of GaWC since its inception in 1998. Initially conceived as Global Observatory, GaWC has pioneered new ways of analysing urban external relations at global and regional ...

Loughborough now has its own TOWN Observatory gawc.lboro.ac.uk/town-observa... - a great cross-campus initiative!

The Rise of the Platform Music Industries A critical appraisal of the latest round of platform intermediation, centred on MusicTech, social media platforms and user-generated content, live streaming, crowdfunding and gamification, that is res...

The Rise of the Platform Music Industries, written by me and @allanwatson1.bsky.social, was formally published yesterday. The physical version is available from all good bookshops (as well as a few bad ones). It’s also available as an an Open Access pdf): www.agendapub.com/page/detail/...

Excited for @sunbelt2025paris.bsky.social next week?

While you get ready, be sure to check out the new @insna.bsky.social recommendations on sharing your network data.

Further detail at www.lboro.ac.uk/study/postgr...

@allanwatson1.bsky.social @bedforms.bsky.social @lboropr.bsky.social @drjwharrison.bsky.social @sarah-mills.bsky.social

The programme offers global insights from leading practitioners in sustainable development and humanitarian action, including @lborouniversity.bsky.social's world-leading STEER Centre with its flagship research programmes @ccgprogramme.bsky.social (CCG) and Modern Energy Cooking Services (MECS).

Webinar 'Where do Climate Leaders Begin? 19 June 2025, 5-6pm (CET)

The Department of Geography and Environment @lborouniversity.bsky.social is launching the MSc Climate Change, Energy and Humanitarian Action, a brand-new distance learning programme co-designed and delivered with @unitar.bsky.social.

💻 Register for an open webinar at unitar.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Join your team. Bring your team. Build your team. Loughborough University is seeking top research talent from around the world to build, join and shape the teams facing down the most pressing challenges of our time.

🚨 We’re hiring at Loughborough! 🚨
This is a strategic investment in teams of academic staff focused on Research & Innovation. Ready to help shape the future of your field and of a top 10 UK university? www.lboro.ac.uk/join-us/acad...

University Teacher in Human Geography at Loughborough University An academic position as a University Teacher in Human Geography is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.

Come and work @lborouniversity.bsky.social from 1st September: 12-month full time and fixed term UT in Human Geography, following my BA fellowship news - it's a great department! Closing date 22/06 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNH236/u...

Image Description: Flyer with USF Logo for the 2025 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS of the International Fellowships on a Photo via Flickr by Rob de Vries

Gentle reminder!
The deadline to apply for the 2025 #USFInternationalFellowships grant is approaching soon.
📅 16th July 2024.
This fully-funded program offers 3-9 month research visits for urban scholars from the Global South. Apply now: ow.ly/gAbM50VYLJj

Join your team. Bring your team. Build your team. Loughborough University is seeking top research talent from around the world to build, join and shape the teams facing down the most pressing challenges of our time.

@lborouniversity.bsky.social is recruiting! A brilliant opportunity for outstanding researchers to join as Professor/Reader: www.lboro.ac.uk/join-us/acad...

Apply via one of six strategic areas to build or grow a world-class research team, including in our Department of Geography and Environment!

Honouring the work of Roger and Linda - The City Institute at York University (CITY) Dear  all, This spring marks a significant moment for the CITY Institute at York University and for critical urban scholarship.   Professors Roger Keil and Linda Peake, two long term forces behind CIT...

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...

Mise à jour : Le classement des villes mondiales/globales du GaWC @gawc.bsky.social
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Visualisation: The global city network of firms A new network graph published in the journal Finance and Space, by Yue Wang, Thomas Sigler and Julia Loginova, takes inspiration from GaWC's ‘world city network’ approach and continues our tradition o...

Excellent new visualisation of cities in globalisation published in @financeandspace.bsky.social by Yue Wang, Thomas Sigler and Julia Loginova gawc.lboro.ac.uk/visualisatio...

New book: A Historical Social Science of Modernity's Climate Catastrophe 2023 and 2024 are probably the warmest years humans have ever experienced. We are changing the Earth’s climate in ways that are dangerous for all living beings. Social scientists are responsible for u...

New book published: "A Historical Social Science of Modernity's Climate Catastrophe: We are Earth's Rogue Species" by Peter J. Taylor gawc.lboro.ac.uk/new-book-a-h...

Pop into this at #AAG2025 on Monday and stay for the Q&A, y'all! ✨

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I'm speaking next week Weds 26th 1300 at online RSA webinar "Legal Geography for Regions and Cities: A Place-first Approach' lounge.regionalstudies.org/Meetings/Mee...

Reviews of The Wealth of Cities and the Poverty of Nations Cities are seen as essentially ‘good’: innovative, pro-growth, poverty-reducing. In a challenging corrective to this common portrayal, Christof Parnreiter argues that the same urban properties which m...

Christof Parnreiter's latest book, The Wealth of Cities and the Poverty of Nations @agendapub.bsky.social, reviewed by @bdrudder.bsky.social @regionalstudies.bsky.social, David Bassens (The AAG Review of Book) and Bernd Belina (Geographica Helvetica) gawc.lboro.ac.uk/reviews-of-t...

Pandemic Urbanism: Infectious Diseases on a Planet of Cities <p>Emerging infectious disease outbreaks have transformed the very nature of urban life worldwide, even as the extent and experience of pandemics are shaped by the planetary urban condition.&nbsp;<i>P...

Five years after. As good a day as any to point out that seeing COVID-19 like a city helps understand its causes and effects: www.wiley.com/en-gb/Pandem...

The Wealth of Cities and the Poverty of Nations Published in The AAG Review of Books (Ahead of Print, 2025)

“Timely and refreshing... recalibrating the debate about cities and (uneven) development... a must read.”

David Bassens reviews 'The Wealth of Cities and the Poverty of Nations' by Christof Parnreiter in the AAG Review of Books 👇
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#CallforPapers: #UrbanStudies journal encourages #DebatesPaper submissions with rigorous and critical dialogue with existing perspectives and traditions in #UrbanResearch with new and provocative insights on the urban condition.

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Recommendations for sharing network data and materials Recommendations for sharing network data and materials

GaWC is pleased to endorse the Recommendations for Sharing Network Data and Materials, published by an @insna.bsky.social working group. You can learn more about these recommendations, and become an endorser too, at www.zacharyneal.com/datasharing

Today we launch our new report "CreaTech: How the fusion of emerging technologies and the Creative Industries can transform the UK's approach to skills, innovation and business", commissioned by The Royal Anniversary Trust and DCMS.

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