Sheffield Urbanism

Nation of Neighbours Why I distrust communities but believe in parishes

Celebrating Greens winning by-election

The Infrastructural Geography of the US/Israel War on Iran…

…From data centres to logistical bottlenecks, supply chains to real estate markets, shipping to petroleum networks

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One for the weekend

Would you... Could you... Should you get in a self-driving taxi?

As London gears up for its first trial, #UrbanRadar discusses the promise and pitfalls of robotic urban infrastructure with Aidan While

With @goodfellowtom.bsky.social and @itsbethperry.bsky.social as usual

New podcast episode now available

URBAN ROBOTICS BY STEALTH

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plus a range of other issues as usual

All recorded before the weekend - how things change

With Aidan While, @itsbethperry.bsky.social and @goodfellowtom.bsky.social

Sensorial Methodologies, Extended Urbanization This workshop, incorporating film screening, book launch and panel discussion, brings together urban researchers exploring the geographies of extended and planetary urbanization through visual based m...

Sensorial Methodologies, Extended Urbanization

This workshop, incorporating film screening, book launch and panel discussion, brings together urban researchers exploring the geographies of extended and planetary urbanization through visual based methodologies.

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Catch up with the latest urban radar podcast ...

Here's a sneak peek of @felipemagallhaes.bsky.social

@xuniamortimer.bsky.social @ctemenos.bsky.social @itsbethperry.bsky.social @goodfellowtom.bsky.social

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We have a new paper in @ijurresearch.bsky.social
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'EVERYTHING IS BEING DISTURBED’: Unsettling the Spaces of Global Infrastructure along the Northern Corridor

Special economic zones, railway projects + more with Sydney Nsubuga

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The UK universities cutting geography have lost their bearings From climate change to geopolitics, the knowledge, skills and insights of geographers have never been more relevant, say five professors

Our new piece out today in Times Higher Education about the threats to Geography in the UK - particularly fieldwork - please do share. It links to a recent snapshot survey on the challenges being faced in UK HE, which highlights the inequities of the challenges, but also fears of what is yet to come

My GlobalCORRIDOR newsletter 9 is out now

Featuring.... New Horn of Africa corridor, the 'Lobito model', Alphabet's digital $15 billion investment in India, EXIM Bank's outstanding $289bn loans, new maritime based readings, data centre film

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Lots of new excitement about the 'Manchester model' but it's built an extractive economy that benefits capital, not labour.

Read our data-led report
"Centripetal Cities A critique of supply-side urban development" - t.co/Dec4wIkGGe

Global Corridor #8 US races for DRC minerals, the return of the Trans-Saharan pipeline? JD Vance’s TRIPP, more tensions on the Panama canal, Italian train tunnels, Mauritania Railway, Silicon Elsewhere and Lunar roads

Catch up on my Global Corridor newsletter #8 featuring...

US races for DRC minerals, return of the Trans-Saharan pipeline? JD Vance’s TRIPP, tensions on the Panama canal, Italian tunnels, riding the Mauritania Railway, Silicon Elsewhere + Lunar roads

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How can we see and understand complex and volatile cities?

How might we use and analyse photographs and archives in urban research?

Listen to latest #urbanradar podcast with @xuniamortimer.bsky.social and @felipemagallhaes.bsky.social

With @itsbethperry.bsky.social @goodfellowtom.bsky.social

Global Corridor newsletter #8 is out now featuring...

US races for DRC minerals, the return of the Trans-Saharan pipeline? JD Vance’s TRIPP, more tensions on the Panama canal, Italian train tunnels, Mauritania Railway, Silicon Elsewhere and Lunar roads

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CfP RGS-IBG 2026: Cities in the Disinformation Age? Beth Perry, Urban Institute and Tom Goodfellow, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester are organising a session at the RGS in London 1-4 September 2026 and have a Call for Papers on 'C...

CfP RGS-IBG 2026: Cities in the Disinformation Age?

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Global Corridor newsletter 7 is out now featuring...

New book on the Belt and Road Initiative, Burkina's revolutionary road, Destiny, a new special economic zone in the Caribbean, Foster design transport hub in Poland, Venezuelan oil, Pakistani railways

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📅 Join us online on Thursday 19 February 10-11am GMT as we introduce the Non-Decent Index (NDI), a free tool that identifies hotspots of Decent Homes failure in England.

📝 Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rolling-ou...

Thank you to everyone at the @thetcpa.bsky.social who helped with this event, especially Hugh Ellis and Jeanette Aves. We had a packed room, eager to talk about renewing the purpose for planning. We're looking forward to taking the purpose we created out to the wider world!

A Place in The City, Film Screening The Urban Institute and IGSD Cities warmly invite you to a screening of the film “A Place in the City” (2025, 61 minutes) followed by a discussion with the director Gabriel Silvestre (Newcastle Univer...

For anyone physically in Sheffield on Tuesday 3rd February we have some places for our screening of @gabrielsilvestre.bsky.social film A Place in the City

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SERIES TWO of Urban Radar now available on all usual streaming platforms

Check out latest offering from @itsbethperry.bsky.social and @goodfellowtom.bsky.social with guest Erika Garcia Fermin

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#Greenland #Iran #Venezuela #neighbourhoods #disinformation #embassies

Compelling set of outputs from our colleagues at the Karachi Urban Lab including a new film and report - download them below

Check out this podcast episode from Urban Studies journal with @invisiblemapper.bsky.social

A great insight into Jon's work and the GlobalCORRIDOR project

Here's the wrap up of #urbanradar for 2025!

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- #Bogota's care blocks
- #Subtervising
- Scrapping trial by #jury
- #US #Security Strategy
- #Australia's #social #media ban
- #Syrian cities one year on

@itsbethperry.bsky.social @goodfellowtom.bsky.social

Sneaky listen of Julia Moses talking with @goodfellowtom.bsky.social and @itsbethperry.bsky.social on #urbanradar

About child labour and urban and rural dimensions drawing on her project @glosoc.bsky.social

Learnt so much chatting with Julia and Dani on the latest #urbanradar podcast

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And quite a bit of lying on my part (though I do actually like elephants)

Free book! Download now if you're interested in the material geographies of the belt and road initiative

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And listen to Jon talking about some of the work on the #urbanradar podcast here

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On mansion taxes and why they aren't enough ... according to @drabioconnor.bsky.social

If you've not signed up, check out the Global Corridor newsletter here ... Critical geopolitical reading of forces shaping urban worlds

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Radar 11: CHILD LABOUR AND DISINFORMATION (+immigration policy, +COP30 in Belem, +ticket touts, +urban statistics and more…)

Another episode of #urbanradar now available, just in time for weekend listening

RADAR 11: CHILD LABOUR AND DISINFORMATION

With Julia Moses and Dani Madrid-Morales

And of course @goodfellowtom.bsky.social & @itsbethperry.bsky.social

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@unishefplayer.bsky.social

Latest Urban Radar podcast is out

Feature 10: CHINA, THE GLOBAL INFRASTRUCTURE RACE AND ITS URBAN IMPACTS - A panel with Jon Silver, Zhengli Huang and Linda Westman

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