Contested Territory: A Theory of Land and Democracy beyond Sovereign Bounds Abstract. Contested Territory presents a critical, non-sovereign theory of territorial rights capable of responding to border-defying global crises such as

@annajurkevics.bsky.social, Contested Territory: A Theory of Land and Democracy beyond Sovereign Bounds - Oxford University Press, April 2025
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Housing as a driver of inequality - AMCIS Join our seminar to explore how housing drives health and economic inequality, with insights from global experts Rebecca Bentley and Susan Smith.

Next week, AMCIS hosts profs. Susan Smith and Rebecca Bentley at the University of Amsterdam. They will talk about housing as a driver of inequality, focusing on economic and health inequalities respectively.

Join us, more info and registration here:

amcis.uva.nl/content/even...

New book on the history of peripheral centralities and suburban utopias/failures, ed. by Nick Phelps, @rkeil.bsky.social & @planographer.bsky.social.

Our chapter uses Lefebvre's notion of centrality to examine Madrid's informal settlements and their impact on urban policy under a Fascist regime.

Hustle Urbanism: Making Life Work in Nairobi Celebrate the launch of Hustle Urbanism by Tatiana Thieme - Stories of struggle, solidarity and soul

⏳ Just one week left!

Don't miss the Hustle Urbanism launch by Dr Tatiana Thieme – stories of hope, resilience, and hustle in Nairobi.

🗓️ 4 June | 🕠 5:30pm | 📍 UCL Geography | tinyurl.com/ucl-hustle

#HustleUrbanism #UrbanInnovation

The new issue of Urban Geography is out! And it includes what is probably the only urban geography paper on snakes (probably) 🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍https://www.urbangeographyjournal.org/journal/volume-46-4

📣 New Issue 📣 Taking us from Montenegro to Ramallah via Barcelona and Cape Town www.urbangeographyjournal.org/journal/volu...

The lovely editors of the Urban Geography journal @urbangeography.bsky.social at the end of a long day conferencing in #AAG2025 @geographers.bsky.social

Wikithon against erasure – archiving Palestinian culture and thought Amer Shomali, Director of the Palestinian Museum in Birzeit, will join online to talk about the importance of preserving and archiving Palestinian thought, culture and heritage.

Wikithon against erasure – archiving Palestinian culture and thought

Thursday from 1pm at UCL

www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Screenshot of article info including DOI, title, authors, abstract and keywords

How do bureaucratic actors and non-human elements mediate, shape, and influence the development and implementation of #UrbanClimate adaptation measures? New paper invites urban scholars to explore the bureaucratic life of urban #ClimateResilience buff.ly/ALMGhyb

"Masculinities in transit" a forum on Romit Chowdhury's book City of Men (@rutgersupress.bsky.social) with Sanjay Srivastava, Wangui Kimari, Manali Desai, Greg Noble, @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social, @plyushteva.bsky.social in @urbangeography.bsky.social: www.urbangeographyjournal.org/journal/book...

Honorable Mentions went to Rafaella Lima and Tilman Schwarze & Krzysztof Jankowski for their excellent work too! Read all about that here: www.urbangeographyjournal.org/journal/earl...

The Vancouver socioecological fix: indigenous real-estate development as the city’s imagination of sustainability, affordability, and reconciliation In Vancouver, the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations are constructing several large real-estate developments that will deeply impact the Nations and the city itself. Developments ...

Theo van der Haegen for was also awarded the prize for 'The Vancouver socioecological fix: indigenous real-estate development as the city’s imagination of sustainability, affordability, and reconciliation' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Negotiating infrastructural citizenship beyond the state: philanthropy, non-profit organizations, and the Flint Water Crisis The urban infrastructure literature has explored how infrastructure is tied to the politics of citizenship: states’ use of infrastructure to include/exclude populations and marginalized populations...

Melissa Heil for was awarded the prize for her paper 'Negotiating infrastructural citizenship beyond the state: philanthropy, non-profit organizations, and the Flint Water Crisis' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Every year we organise a prize to recognise Early Career Researchers who publish in the journal. This year we are excited to announce Melissa Heil and Thilo van der Haegen as the winners! www.urbangeographyjournal.org/journal/earl...

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From speculative dreams to ghost housing realities: homeless homeowners and failed future-making in urban development The phenomenon of ghost housing projects in the Global South exposes the disconnect between “dreamscapes of modernity” and lived reality. These urban projects, driven by speculative or state-led in...

Read more here! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

'From speculative dreams to ghost housing realities: homelesshomeowners and failed future-making in urban development'. How viable is state entrepreneurialism as an approach to housing provisioning and urban development?

'Algorithmic Refusal: Creativity and Codeability in Digital Urban Governance' CfP at the RGS-IBG, Birmingham 2025 — Regional Futures Algorithmic Refusal: Creativity and Codeability in Digital Urban Governance RGS-IBG Annual Meeting, Birmingham 2025 Session Organisers: Prof Ayona Datta, Dr Fenna Hoefsloot, Dr Mariana Reyes ...

📣 CfP ALGORITHMIC REFUSAL: CREATIVITY AND CODEABILITY IN DIGITAL URBAN GOVERNANCE
@rgsibg.bsky.social conference in Birmingham.

Organisers: @ayonadatta.bsky.social @fennaimara.bsky.social and Mariana Reyes

DEADLINE for abstracts: 21st February 2025. 👇

www.regionalfutures.org/all-outputs/...

THE DENSITY DIALECTIC: Between Hard and Gentle Densification in London Density is critical to cities, but how might we conceive and research its role in urban development? We argue that a conceptualization of the ‘density dialectic’ offers a productive response. Drawing...

New paper by Vicky Habermehl & I on 'the density dialectic', open access in IJURR. Based on our research in London, we explore the value of a dialectical approach to density & densification
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First post on bsky! Delighted to find my paper coauthored with @hyunshin.bsky.social was published online by @urbanstudiesonline.com on the first day of the year of snake! Hope it to be a good start.

Fantastic to have David Jackman here talking about his fantastic new book, ‘Syndicates & Societies: Criminal
Politics in #Dhaka’. Published by @cambridgeup.bsky.social

@nabmed.bsky.social @sperishefuni.bsky.social @goodfellowtom.bsky.social

What do sidewalk activities reveal about belonging in socially diverse territories? How is belonging claimed through insurgent citizenship in the face of displacement from private entities wielding state power? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Metropolitan geographies of urban commons: mapping socio-economic alternatives in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona - Institut Metròpoli

🔍 Els béns comuns urbans, com a forma alternativa d’organització socioeconòmica, han estat poc estudiats a escala metropolitana.

La investigadora Laura Calvet-Mir, participa en aq article a @urbangeography.bsky.social on s'analitzen 1.100 iniciatives a l’#amb 👇

🔗 bit.ly/bens-comuns-...

Abolish Rent w/ Leonardo Vilchis and Tracy Rosenthal The Dig · Episode

“Our mission in the union is to crush the lawyers.”

Stupendous episode of @thedigradio.bsky.social on tenant organizing, with a heap of nonprofit hate that warms my soul (during my 15 degree outdoor morning workout).
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A reminder that the second wave of squatting in West Berlin began on this day in 1979

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Senior Lecturer/Professor in Social and Public Policy.

Lead cutting-edge research, deliver research-led teaching, and engage with external stakeholders.

📅 Apply by: 3rd March 2025

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#AcademicJobs #SocialPolicy #HigherEdJobs

Fully funded PhD looking at role of churches as community hubs here in Sheffield - check out the link in @msoamsoa.bsky.social post below

Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago: Planning, the commons and resistance. Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

How do space, urbanization and planning mediate the relationship between commons and capitalism?

'A is for Architecture' just dropped a new interview about my book, Against the Commons: A Radical History of Urban Planning. Available on the usual podcast platforms and here:

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Urban and Ageing Population - Urban Studies Urban Studies Journal Call for Papers is now open: Urban and Ageing Population. Submission deadline: 1 March 2026.

#CallforPapers Urban & Ageing Population

Do you work in the fields of #urban & #ageing studies? Submit your abstract to our special issue #CFP led by Joost van Hoof & Hannah Marston. We welcome critical & thought-provoking submissions. Details in the link below.

#AgeFriendly #AgeingPopulation