Nate Millington

Card de postagem no Instagram com a notícia: CENTRO DE SÃO PAULO PREFEITURA DE SP APROVA “TIMES SQUARE” DO CENTRO NO CONPRESP E OBRAS COMEÇA EM MARÇO

Captura de tela da postagem que acompanha o card anterior: portalstaceciliabarrafunda Centro de São Paulo poderá ganhar "Times Square" paulistana A Prefeitura de São Paulo deu mais um passo para a criação do chamado Boulevard São Paulo, projeto que pretende transformar o cruzamento das avenidas São João e Ipiranga em um novo polo de arte digital, cultura e publicidade iluminada no centro da cidade. A proposta foi aprovada pelo Conselho Municipal de Preservação do Patrimônio Histórico (Conpresp) e prevê a instalação de grandes painéis de LED nas fachadas de cinco edifícios da região. Apesar de os prédios não serem tombados, a análise foi necessária por estarem próximos a construções históricas protegidas. A ideia é criar um espaço inspirado na famosa Times Square, em Nova York, com telões luminosos exibindo conteúdos culturais, informações públicas e publicidade institucional.

Pelo projeto: 70% do tempo dos telões será destinado a conteúdos culturais e informativos 30% poderá ser usado para publicidade institucional Investimento previsto: cerca de R$ 1,8 milhão por ano Duração inicial: 3 anos Além dos painéis, o projeto inclui melhorias urbanas e a restauração de patrimônios históricos importantes da região central, como a Igreja Nossa Senhora do Rosário dos Homens Pretos, o Monumento à Mãe Preta e o Relógio da Praça Antônio Prado. As obras ainda dependem de outras aprovações, mas a prefeitura pretende iniciar a implantação nos próximos meses. A proposta pretende valorizar o centro histórico, atrair visitantes e fortalecer a economia criativa da cidade. Você acha que o centro de São Paulo precisa de um projeto como esse? Comente sua opinião Compartilhe com quem ama o centro de SP Siga a página para acompanhar as notícias da Santa Cecília, Barra Funda e Centro Há 1 dia.

A cafonice pqp

I know @marxist.af and @pmbigger.bsky.social are working on this and I'm sure can point you in some interesting directions!

I started an Instagram account for ongoing research in São Paulo: www.instagram.com/urbanrepairp...

Really pleased to share that on Monday I passed my PhD viva 😀 Studying for my PhD has been such a privilege thanks to the support I have had from countless people. Particularly, thanks to the endless support of my supervisors, Alison Browne, @natemillington.bsky.social, and Erik Swyngedouw.

New Turnstile is good 👍

Chuquimamani-Condori 23rd May 2025 Playing Pop, Huayños, Country. ILY Travis (Chuqi Chinchay Is God & God Bless America) Mix

www.nts.live/shows/guests... Really feel like what Chuquimamani-Condori is doing sounds like nothing else. Rural futurism, over-the-top earnestness, power ballads. I love it.

Really pleased to see Katie Meehan's brilliant 2023 RGS Keynote, alongside short responses by @saraheknuth.bsky.social, @natemillington.bsky.social and myself. Available on @politicalgeography.bsky.social latest issue.

#GeoSky

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Really good talk today by the Elba Research Collective (eblaresearch.org) on building committees as a response to urban crisis in Beirut. Helpful to think about buildings as spaces of organising in contexts of urban crisis in my own work - repair practices against urban collapse, social and material

Finally saw I'm Still here and it completely knocked me out. Filmaço.

And the following day (wednesday, Feb 26, 5pm-6:30pm), I'll be talking about ongoing research (Infrastructural repurposing and repair in São Paulo, Brazil): events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:... - in-person and online, see attached link for details

Two Brazil focused talks at Manchester this week (and online). Tomorrow at 3pm Marcos Lopes Campos on ‘Fare Money’ Stories: Transportation and everyday practices in the periphery of Rio de Janeiro. 3pm-4:30pm Tuesday (Feb 25) Roscoe 1.003 (or on zoom: zoom.us/j/96743262112)

Workshop: Housing, illegality and criminal actors. Emerging illegal practices vis a vis the global housing crisis. September 11-12 2025. Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding Geneva, Switzerland. Abstract submission by March 31, 2025. oce.em-lyon.com/housing-ille... #urbanism #sociology

But I'm coming around to the argument that you can't really separate out the social media dynamics from a lot of this stuff, even if that pains me as a historical materialist. The manosphere stuff in particular is so divorced from any kind of tangible reality - it's pure internet brain.

I don't live in the US anymore so don't have an answer to the 'is the economy bad or are the vibes bad?' arguments, but the sense that previous generations had it easy and were given houses as soon as they turned 18 is so pervasive and seems particularly toxic, whether left or right wing coded.

Been spending a lot of time reading Elon twitter these days and the way that concerns about downward mobility in the US have mapped on to weird manosphere arguments and anti-immigrant politics is really wild. Young men making 100k a year and choking on resentment about women and immigrants. Ugly.

Aggrieved car driver has gotta be the worst contemporary subject position, and it's everywhere.

25-27 June 2025: Panel timetable Accepted panels for DSA2025 conference at Bath

CfP: Panel on urban informality and 'polycrisis'
We welcome submissions from interdisciplinary researchers and practitioners exploring urban informality in the face of complex crises.
Abstract Deadline: 28th January
Location: hybrid & University of Bath
For further info: tinyurl.com/dsaP34

I liked the whole thing but the first half (ish) was my favorite part. The inn, the crossroads, the initial visit to the castle. All pretty perfect.

Nosferatu was great, like a portal into another world. Might even see it again.

UK low- to middle-income families far poorer than OECD counterparts – study Britons 39% worse off than Dutch equivalent due to housing costs 44% higher than western European average

UK low- to middle-income families far poorer than OECD counterparts – study
Britons 39% worse off than Dutch equivalent due to housing costs 44% higher than western European average

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São Paulo to host School on University, Memory and Reparation School addresses the connections between academic research and reparation processes, recognizing the relevant role of the university in promoting the right to memory and social reparation initiatives....

www.eurekalert.org/news-release... - really interesting opportunity to discuss memory and reparation at the University of São Paulo in July 2025. Applications are due at the end of the month!

Concordo!

(and also brief! The key element for a good winter)

Enjoying this brief blast of winter as it should be: cold, bright, crisp.

People favoriting a book I am selling on vinted for 1£: what are you waiting on? It can not be cheaper. Free yourself.

Always wild to see photos of MASP before it was painted.

Dusk, winter sky. High rise towers, and a cross belonging to a local church. Manchester .

Manchester / Salford
1st January 2025

First Light:06.57
Sunrise: 08.24
Sunset: 16.00
Nightfall: 17.28

2025 tomorrow. Onwards and sideways.
Love to you all.

Pic from this time last year.

Happy birthday!

Listened to a podcast today about a podcaster who stopped being a podcaster because they took ayahuasca and...life is too short to pretend that any of this matters.

Jugaad infrastructure - improvisational infrastructures in everyday life UI Associate Ankit Kumar's research, exploring infrastructure as both a material and social concept, is showcased by the Royal Geographical Society, where each month they spotlight recently published ...

Jugaad infrastructure - improvisational infrastructures in everyday life

UI Associate @ankitkumar.bsky.social research, exploring infrastructure as both a material and social concept, is showcased by the Royal Geographical Society

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