Welcome to my inaugural tweet! Reluctantly and with some trepidation I have stepped into this whole new world. A more substantive tweet to follow shortly!

Pleased to announce that myself, Paul Maginn (UWA) and Roger Keil (York University) will be running a seminar/webinar series on 'Peripheral centralities: lost, past, present and future' (2021-2022) funded by the Urban Studies Foundation.

Just took receipt of a few copies of my latest book - a celebration of urban planning. Now to give them away to a few folk now that lockdown here is over...

A new paper by Julie Miao and myself in the Annals of the Association of American Geographers tries to distinguish some of the peculiarity of the expansion of Chinese cities.

#PeripheralCentralities: Present & Planned Seminar 3B (via Zoom) Thurs 15 Dec, 2022 Nicholas A. Phelps RkeIl UWA Research @IRASP_UWA UWA Public Policy Institute UWA Dept of Geography & Planning @RMIT_CUR Melbourne Centre for Cities CITY Institute Prof. Loretta Lees 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇮🇪 Center for Metropolitan Studies - TU Berlin Georg-Simmel-Center for Urban Studies UNSW City Futures Research Centre 👇 linkedin.com/posts/activity…

The #Bullsbrook quarantine facility, located in outer suburban #Perth, is a contemporary example of a #PeripheralCentrality as discussed by Nicholas A. Phelps RkeIl myself and various participants in our Urban Studies Foundation-funded seminar series on #PeripheralCentralities

Boxing Day came a little late but a pleasant surprise for the new year.

Julie Miao, Andy Wood and I have organised sessions at the up coming AAG conference on "When was urban entrepreurialism" following on from this piece in Dialogues in Human Geography.

See my commentary 'Not waving but drowning' on the Harstaad et al paper 'Diversifying the compact city' in the Dialogues in Human Geograpphy forum. doi.org/10.1177/204382…

One newish, one brand new!

The final seminar in our Urban Studies Foundation-funded series on 'peripheral centralities ' was last week with early career academics. Big thanks to 🤘Assoc. Prof. Paul J. Maginn🤘 and RkeIl and the over 60 presenters we have had across the series in virtual space and in Melbourne and Toronto.

Recent talk at Queens University Belfast. The need for new spatial planning vocabulary.

My most recent paper in JAPA compares the idealism of planners with the realism of developers and the opportunism of politicians in the urban development process. And it's open access! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Dave Valler and I reflect on the abject low point in strategic spatial planning reached in England in a new paper. Available open access. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Looking forward to hosting a set of talks on Imagination in/for the Built Environment at University of Melbourne's new Global Centre in Delhi, India.