Cristina Temenos

Schwarzer Hintergrund mit weißem Text: „Call for Papers – AAG 2026, San Francisco. Crisis between the Ordinary and Eventful: Housing, Material Conditions, and Everyday Urbanism. Deadline: October 20, 2025.“ With email addresses from both organizers: klosterkamp@geo.uni-frankfurt.de & cristina.temenos@manchester.ac.uk

📢 CFP | AAG 2026, San Francisco
Crisis between the Ordinary and Eventful: Housing, Material Conditions, and Everyday Urbanism

In many cities, crisis isn’t rupture—it’s everyday life.
Evictions, debt, precarity, housing struggles.
But also repair, care, solidarity.

@geographers.bsky.social #geosky

Lots of great urbanists here!

Capping off 4 years of work in 2 hours is always a challenge, but I thoroughly enjoyed discussing my thesis with Paola Jirón and @natemillington.bsky.social today.

Many thanks to all those who made this research project possible - supervisors, interlocutors, and interviewees!

@wardykg.bsky.social & I thank examiners Paola Jirón, @natemillington.bsky.social & chair @jamiedoucette.bsky.social His thesis is a comparison of cycling policy across 3 cities, highlighting the politics and policy mobiliy of cycling policies, mobility justice & infrastructural reconfigurations

Proud supervisor alert! Congratulations Dr. @tvlaake.bsky.social who defended his thesis: Between processes and instances: comparing the intra-urban differentiation of cycling policy & infrastructure provision in Greater Manchester, Mexico City, and Toronto.

The news out of Manchester today fills me with profound sadness. I have no doubt that the city will pull together, it always does. Thinking of those senselessly murdered and their loved ones.

Excited for our new edited (and OPEN ACCESS) book released on Nov 20th

"The Material Geographies of the Belt and Road Initiative: Infrastructures and Political Ecologies on the New Silk Road"

with Elia Apostolopoulou, Han Cheng and Alan Wiig

bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-material...

A fantastic crowd today for our joint event with the city of Athens on homelessness outreach policy across Manchester, Athens and Santiago. The public event wraps up three days of knowledge exchange between our teams in the three metro areas stemming from the #UKRI urban crisis project.

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This Progress Report on Mobilities I: Crisis now has a home in Volume 49 Issue 5. #OpenAccess and alongside some excellent contributions all addressing crisis in its many forms @proghumgeog.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/toc/PHG/curr...

Labour’s plan to revitalise high streets is good - now it has to make sure people hear about it | Morgan Jones There have been hyped policies before about local funding, but unlike ‘levelling up’ this project could lead to actual change, says Morgan Jones

‘The theory of change here is based on ideas about political trust, understanding Reform as a manifestation of anti-politics.’ Still lots of questions on how to protect community assets once local authorities buy them & msy need to sell on due to wider debt. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Lots of great urbanists here!

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This Progress Report on Mobilities I: Crisis now has a home in Volume 49 Issue 5. #OpenAccess and alongside some excellent contributions all addressing crisis in its many forms @proghumgeog.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/toc/PHG/curr...

Agree the plan is good, but council ownership is not going to work where most councils have serious financial challenges.

Here in Birmingham, the council is selling off most of it's property portfolio.

“Nothing destroys political trust like money that comes and goes,” says Caitlin Prowle,

See also my comments on 'grant funding', a smaller but invidious version of the same problem. Designed to make potential cooperators fight like rats in a sack too.

Yes, was discussing this over the past few days, as it's the same issues across municipal services in Athens, Santiago and Manchester. Global problem, simple solution...

Labour’s plan to revitalise high streets is good - now it has to make sure people hear about it | Morgan Jones There have been hyped policies before about local funding, but unlike ‘levelling up’ this project could lead to actual change, says Morgan Jones

‘The theory of change here is based on ideas about political trust, understanding Reform as a manifestation of anti-politics.’ Still lots of questions on how to protect community assets once local authorities buy them & msy need to sell on due to wider debt. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Marit and I wrote a book chapter on this back in 2010! Can’t believe it’s still not built!

A special thanks to those who travelled from Manchester and Santiago and to project RA/PGR Sotiria Kyriakidou for all her work in putting this together. More details to come but for now we’ll take a well earned rest!

A fantastic crowd today for our joint event with the city of Athens on homelessness outreach policy across Manchester, Athens and Santiago. The public event wraps up three days of knowledge exchange between our teams in the three metro areas stemming from the #UKRI urban crisis project.

Today!

There has been a lot of chat at #OASPA2025 about how, if we were starting the scholarly publishing system from scratch, we would build it differently. And that we have to work with the system as is, with all its flaws (my gloss). I agree to some extent - but I'm not sure this framing is helpful

Great piece on the politics of moving counter-hegemonic ideas into mainstream policy and practice. As this paper shows, there's not a huge amount of work bridging policy mobilities and the geographies of social movements, but really productive space for that work to be done.

Urban Geography New Urban Frontiers. Volume 46, Issue 8 of Urban Geography

'New Urban Frontiers'

This @urbangeography.bsky.social special issue edited by me and @clairemercer.bsky.social has now been published online: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rurb20/4...

A thread on the papers 👇

Congratulations Matina! Wonderful recognition for all of your hard work!

‘City deals’ are coming to NZ – let’s make sure they’re not ‘city back-room deals’ City deals are being touted as the answer to NZ’s local infrastructure problems. Lessons from the UK and Australia suggest greater transparency and more coherent planning should be on the table too.

With Tom Baker and @wardykg.bsky.social we write about some of these risks here: theconversation.com/city-deals-a...

Ministers could give mayors control of schools and hospitals in devolution shake-up Exclusive: Steve Reed, backed by Labour Together, wants to devolve control over more local services

Devolution without a a set formula for mayoral funding risks replicating or even deepening regional inequalities. It also perpetuates lack of transparency and risks breaking trust in democratic processes www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Next time an undergraduate wants to do their dissertation on Manchester’s music scene, I’m going to show them this picture and advise they make a dissertation out of this.

Jimmy Kimmel Wasn’t the Biggest Corporate Media Capitulation to Trump This Week The mainstream media is up in arms about Trump’s attack on Jimmy Kimmel’s free speech rights — but barely made a peep about Mahmoud Khalil.

The same fear, miscalculations, and hostility to free speech that informed coverage of Khalil are now resulting in corporate media censorship of its own on-air personalities.

Policy "blind spot" driving Scottish men from poor homes to early grave Shocking report slates Scottish Government for failing to build for future success with joined-up policies to reverse our nation's shameful record on drugs, alcohol and suicide deaths

See coverage of today's report from SHERU on how younger adult men, at risk of deaths from drugs, alcohol and suicide, are a 'policy blindspot':

www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/policy-...