Ras vkhedavt, rodesac cas vukurebt? What do we see when we look at the sky? 71. Berlinale Summer Special.

Happy to share piece on youth-led community geography and the LIFT Scarborough journey co-authored w/ Ajeev Bhatia. University of Toronto Scarborough School of Cities The Storefront @C3connected link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Today at noon EST Toronto/New York = 5pm Berlin time! Talking the future of park culture with University of Toronto human geographer Ahmed Allahwala & Clay & Paper Theatre community activist/artist David Anderson & architect Carolin Mees Parsons School of Design Strategies, drop by.

The ⁦⁦@GoetheToronto⁩ exchange explores the role of city parks as essential public spaces and cultural community infrastructure. Thanks to David Anderson from ⁦⁦Clay & Paper Theatre⁩ and Carolin Mees for joining us today. instagram.com/tv/CVx8TwSpdaU…

Join me at 12 noon on Instagram for the last of three ⁦@GoetheToronto⁩ events on City Culture. Today, we talk with Berlin-based planner Elke Plate and Nick Millum @bagoftoronto about Main Street culture. instagram.com/p/CWV02JPM2Uf/…

2020: flatten the curve 2021: we're in this together 2022: it's not my problem

Our SPE theme issue on the political economy of COVID-19, co-edited with Roger Keil is out! With contributions by, among others, Signa Daum Shanks, @alexandraeflynn Stefan Kipfer Jamilla Martine August tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

"Whether this democratic moment will turn into a more sustained democratic movement that can last & incite the founding of new, & the change of existing, institutions, & mobilize for a more just and equal political economy has to be seen." Ahmed Allahwala tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

COVID-19 pandemic still hitting low income areas hardest, Ontario's science table says | CBC News cbc.ca/news/canada/to… Harris Ali Creighton Connolly Samantha Biglieri Lorenzo De Vidovich Julian Iacobelli Ahmed Allahwala Hillary Birch

Got a new Toronto Public Library card yesterday and remembered my cherished visits to the library bus in @Wurster_Kueste Landkreis Cuxhaven as a small kid in the early 80s, one of the largest rural library services in Germany. Rural or urban, support your public libraries. 📚 Photo: Lk. Cux.

Happy to see Nick Hune-Brown win this year‘s #canhillman22 for his mind-blowing & moving story on the shadowy business of international education The Walrus Sidney Hillman Foundation

In their article, Ahmed Allahwala and Ajeev Bhatia consider the ways in which youth engagement and youth voices can be prioritized in community geography projects. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Big thanks to atlas, integratie & inburgering Antwerpen for opening their doors and giving us an insight into their impressive work for and with newcomers in Antwerp. #MigrantCities U of T Arts & Science UofT Summer Abroad University of Toronto Scarborough School of Cities

Thanks to the European Commission Visitors’Centre, especially Nicole Peil, and policy experts Maria del Carmen Bueno Barriga and Lovro Broketa for sharing their expertise and insights with us. UofT Summer Abroad

Happy to see KStrauss and Feng Xu 枫’s piece on labour in seniors’ care in Shanghai and BC and COVID-19 come out as part of the SPE theme issue on COVID-19, guest edited by Roger Keil and I. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Essential but not empowered. @SimonBlack’s compelling reflections on the working class under COVID-19, part of our SPE theme issue on the political economy of COVID-19. Roger Keil tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

#A100wegbassen thousands coming out in Berlin today to protect clubs and climate from highway expansion and car-oriented urban development. Clubs. Stadt. Klimakrise.

A piece in Metropolitics of my research on Hanlan’s Point Beach as social infrastructure.

Canada’s housing crisis making news in Germany. Lovely to hear School of Cities Director Karen Chapple being interviewed here. Kanadas Wohnungskrise - Kein Platz, viel Frust und astronomische Preise deutschlandfunkkultur.de/kanada-wohnung…

University of Toronto students at the MMM Migratie Museum in Molenbeek at the end of our four-day field trip to Brussels and Antwerp. Foyer vzw UofT Summer Abroad