Adam Leaver

Successfully co-organized a 2-day workshop on the theme of Valuation, Space & Power this week, bringing together a brilliant group of scholars in Sheffield. Thank you to all the participants and fellow organizers @callumny.bsky.social @richmgoulding.bsky.social @adamleaver.bsky.social & Dan Tischer!

This week, I was in Sheffield for the WS on @valspacepower.bsky.social. Met many ECRs interested in how economic value is constructed, where it is located, and who captures it. Thanks to Callum Ward, @adamleaver.bsky.social, @richmgoulding.bsky.social and @eyeofraf.bsky.social for the organisation!

Rafaella Lima @eyeofraf.bsky.social kicking us off by explaining how our workshop came about through a shared interest in value, calculation, critical accounting and economic geography

This was such a fun and stimulating workshop. Thank you to the whole organisational team and all the presenters - I learnt lots and enjoyed my trip to Sheffield 🙏

Thames Water on collision course with government over bonuses Utility claims new legislation to block bonuses will not capture ‘retention payments’

Thames Water on collision course with govt over exec bonuses.

TW with £21bn debt, history of abuses & criminal convictions insists that it will pay bonuses, now calls them “retention payments”.

Govt must cancel it's licence, let it go bankrupt, prosecute execs, nationalise.
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Agree people don’t know what councils do etc. But I also think the public is reasonable enough to question why the local area looks dirty/declining etc while council tax bills have gone up and up and up and up and up. Politically it’s therefore currently ripe for undeliverable promises

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An exciting new opportunity for ECRs - a call for papers is out now for our 'Valuation, Space & Power' workshop (see below)

Congratulations to @savannahcox.bsky.social on this fascinating new paper on 'infrastructural time', and how resilience measures are shaped by earlier investments....

Chart showing Total growth in Real Household Disposable Income per person, by decade: UK

Real household disposable incomes (RHDI) is forecast to rise by just £1,200 over the course of the 2020s.

That's less than it grew over the course of the 2010s,when it rose by £2,900.

New report critiques supply-side urban development The new report, written by Richard Goulding, Adam Leaver and Jonathan Silver, critically examines the supply-side, property-led urban development model, using Manchester as a case study.

Report by @adamleaver.bsky.social and colleagues.
"This failure is partly the result of national policies, where national planning guidance in 2012 strengthened the capacity of developers to avoid affordable housing requirements on the grounds of ‘viability’47.

www.sheffield.ac.uk/crafic/news/...

once more with feeling - failing to repair a roof is more expensive than repairing it, but only one of these costs appears in the accounts and is scored by the five year forecast.

@adamleaver.bsky.social & @richmgoulding.bsky.social setting out their work on Manchester's property led development model is valuable to anybody interested in how capital flows build, sustain and escape urban space in the UK & beyond. But what are the alternative models?

UK hoping to work with China to counteract Trump’s climate-hostile policies Ed Miliband travels to Beijing saying co-operation with China vital to protect future generations, as US and Russia push for expansion of fossil fuels * Ed Miliband: ‘The global battle against the climate crisis needs China’ The UK is hoping to…

UK hoping to work with China to counteract Trump’s climate-hostile policies

🧵 I want to follow up this earlier thread by examining why the USA finds itself in the state it does at the moment; the process of disordered discourse capturing state institutions and how it inevitably results in a slide towards authoritarianism, a process we're seeing unfold before our very eyes.

Britain is now following a developing country economic model – and we know where that leads | Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah Selling off assets to foreign owners, deregulating markets, and liberalising financial services only leads to inequality and instability, says Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah, chief executive of the New Ec...

Absolutely bang on piece by @dhnnjyn.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Episode 2: Is Manchester's model of urban development a good blueprint for growth? Urban Radar · Episode

Episode 2 of #UrbanRadar is now LIVE!

Dive into the informative conversation with @goodfellowtom.bsky.social @itsbethperry.bsky.social @pillmad.bsky.social @adamleaver.bsky.social @richmgoulding.bsky.social on #Manchester ‘s model of property-led development.

Available here-
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Here’s the trailer for Episode 2 of #UrbanRadar

Stay tuned—full episode releasing soon!

Does Manchester's model of urban development work?

Listen in to Ep2 Urban Radar podcast later this week @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social

@theurbaninstitute.bsky.social @invisiblemapper.bsky.social @goodfellowtom.bsky.social
@adamleaver.bsky.social @richmgoulding.bsky.social @pillmad.bsky.social

Terrific resignation letter by Anneliese Dodds, this.

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🚨 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/...

New report - an incisive and disturbing read: essential to understand the relationships between growth-led development, housing and local communities

From @invisiblemapper.bsky.social, @richmgoulding.bsky.social and @adamleaver.bsky.social in @theurbaninstitute.bsky.social & School of Management

Two clicks to uncover fake companies on Companies House We’ve been reporting on the shockingly brazen accounting frauds that slip through Companies House. Our new web-based fraud-finding tool takes just a few clicks to expose suspicious companies.

This is a great new tool developed by @danneidle.bsky.social to identify frauds on Companies House. Check it out! taxpolicy.org.uk/2025/02/02/t...

Our new report on Manchester’s Centripetal City. Out now!!!

Politically stone deaf. Underpin the value of the property portfolio of one of the richest men in Britain (who doesn’t actually live here) but decline to support investment in Merseyside 🤔