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Astrid Wood

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Urban geographer @NCL Geography. Researches infrastructure, governance, transportation. Author of How Cities Learn (2022) & Why Transportation Fails (2025).

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The myth of the “Brasília of the North”: rhetoric and reality in Newcastle’s urban transformation In the 1960s, Newcastle was dubbed the “Brasília of the North”, a comparison that captured the city’s ambitious urban transformation under the leadership of T. Dan Smith. This paper contributes to ...

Here’s a link to my first paper on Newcastle - The myth of the “Brasília of the North”: rhetoric and reality in Newcastle’s urban transformation - www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... It feels like a perfect way to launch my bluesky!

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