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Dark cities - new article, British Journal of Criminology, looking at the relationship between normless space of finance, politics, law, and the illicit finance economy and its darkening influence on the urban social domain: tinyurl.com/6hw2t8vn
📢Just arrived:
Crime, Space and Place
New Geographical Perspectives
by Tim Hall and Richard Yarwood
“Responds incredibly well to student needs... a very welcome addition for courses.” - @qurbanist.bsky.social
www.agendapub.com/page/detail/...
#criminology #socialgeography
A statement of condemnation of the domicide in Gaza from the global housing studies community, please use this link to read and sign. Your name will not be shown publicly. Please share the link, and the existence of the statement itself:
forms.gle/uruHL2hwn7xq...
Another fascinating duo of guests joining us on this episode to discuss @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's rise in #NYC and whether we need a #wealthtax on the super rich
Thanks @katiepruszynski.bsky.social and @qurbanist.bsky.social
Listen to #urbanradar now ...
A reminder that this live event on the global capitalist class is at 4pm tomorrow at the University of Sheffield. All welcome.
This particular event in our series will not be recorded.
#freedomflotilla #madleen #gaza #palestine #greta
We don’t need to increase productivity.
We need to abolish socially unproductive work.
That’s the starting point for improving social well-being.
Men are extremely keen to explain to me that Britain *needs* a domestic steel production plant and doesn't necessarily *need* universities. Okay. Steel contributed about £1.7bn to the UK economy in 2024. Universities contributed more than £200bn.
Richard Littlejohn mostly lives in a gated mansion in Florida.
Andrew Neil mostly lives in Grasse in the South of France.
Keir Starmer hands out excellent prospective book titles to critical sociologists too eagerly - Island of Strangers: Emulation, Inequality and Despair in British Politics perhaps.....
This is the Labour MP for Pendle & Clitheroe who hilariously believes in "a very powerful higher education lobby" (that will be why thousands of university staff are being made redundant this year presumably). With 'friends' like this who needs Farage & Badenoch as enemies?
Its hard to fathom the logic of senior management going to ground and avoiding discussion with its own professional association. Dialogue is always the answer and the easiest means of dissipating anxiety over institutional change.
Three years since Fortress London hit the bookshops.
Still in love with this front cover. No idea why we changed it for the paperback
Lecture 3 of Urban Riches, with Katie Higgins, 18 June at 4pm. Details in the attached image, cutting-edge global study from one of the core urban riches team, please share. We hope to circulate a live link in due course.
The Gated City - this is a timely book, strongly recommend for anyone doing work around gating, walls, fortification, segregation:
policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-gated-city
I have written a short piece based on an article from ten years ago to discuss how the model used there might help us today to interpret politics in the USA as one of 'social catharsis':
alphacity.blog/2025/04/24/s...
One for the diary. Another inspiring discussion from the Urban Riches team planned for June ...
@invisiblemapper.bsky.social @qurbanist.bsky.social
Lecture 3 of Urban Riches, with Katie Higgins, 18 June at 4pm. Details in the attached image, cutting-edge global study from one of the core urban riches team, please share. We hope to circulate a live link in due course.
Trumps attack on the elites - Rufo has frequently denounced what he calls the left’s “ideological capture” of America’s universities...said his goal was to change the way the federal government funds universities “in a way that puts them in an existential terror”
The canary in the mine? This excellent interview a must-watch for academics looking at the Columbia university horror-show, fascism arrives noisily but not all are noticing. Deportation is the start.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgx2...
Word of the day is ultracrepidate - to criticize beyond the sphere of one's knowledge (Chambers Thesaurus, 5th edition).
Felix Römer and I take a deep dive into the term and concept of wealth in Docupedia —worth a read! docupedia.de/zg/gajek_roe...
A "no trumps" hanging sign used by card game players in an antique shop window.
Even the cards can be against you...
It is an unfortunate sign of where we are that, in an attention economy, hiding your humanity becomes a winning strategy.
Festival of Social Action is a series of public events being organised by Change Lab, an initiative being run within Sheffield Student Union. Event list: shorturl.at/72XK0
I will be speaking on Jets, Planes, and Rocketmobiles 25th March, free registration here - shorturl.at/Z2Afb
Spent a while last night picking out the planets in the beautiful clear sky, but after a while the most striking thing was quite how many starlink satellites there are. That guy is really taking over everything.
So the makers of the 'Trump Gaza' video are bemused that their work was broadcast by Trump 'out of context', leaving many questions still unanswered about the purpose of the video - www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...
A real-estate president's AI vision of the future of Gaza. From horror, $$$$
This did not possibly seem to be credible, but now reported on Sky here: news.sky.com/story/trump-...
Good journalism is something we should be prepared to pay for, if you don't believe that go and do YOUR job for free.