🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

Our latest Open Access paper in UPR_Journal: Meaningful Public Accountability in Collaborative Infrastructure Governance: Lessons from Sydney’s Western Parkland City With Tooran Alizadeh | توران علیزاده , Glen Hartley Searle & @CrystalLegacy1 Paper: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Sydney AD&P Research Festival of Urbanism

The Final Report of the Infrastructure Governance Incubator is finally available! It focuses on the key findings from the Incubator’s major case study research on infrastructure governance in the Western Parklands City project. Link: sydney.edu.au/content/dam/co…

I guess we're reading classics now? Oh yeah, The Place, Race and Critical Theory Reading Group is reading Orientalism. Wednesdays at 12noon on Zoom (Sydney time). DM me if you want to join us.

Upcoming Webinar: ‘South-to-South Dialogue’ is a platform to share research exposing, proposing & politicising ‘just (smart) cities of the Global South’. Register below - if interested in ‘Southern urbanism’, ‘smart urbanism’, & ‘the right to the city’: events.humanitix.com/south-to-south…

Please spread the word

Exciting opportunity! Only a few weeks left to apply for the 2024 #USFInternationalFellowships grant. 📅 Deadline: 5th July, 2024. This fully-funded program offers 3-9 month research visits for urban scholars from the Global South. Apply now: ow.ly/Bs0J50RL5wr

Our Open Access article, "Smart Barcelona: the gap between inspiring rhetoric and lackluster implementation in transformative approaches" is now out in Planning Practice & Research! Tooran Alizadeh | توران علیزاده Eshita Dutia Sydney Architecture, Design and Planning tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

‼️Friends/ People who can support initiatives to help displaced people in #Lebanon- please see link below for a reliable place to give volunteers who have organized to help- fundahope.com/en/fundraisers…

I am sorry to see that despite years of talk, gender inequality is on full display at the #UNGA General Debate. Less than 10% of speakers this week are women. This is unacceptable – especially when we know gender equality delivers for peace, climate action and much more.

Watch this 'Report from Beirut', featuring Mona Fawaz who is a symbol of responsible urban scholarship in resistance - in the midst of the ongoing urbicides: democracynow.org/2024/9/27/leba…

#Lebanon Since Sept. 20, 3,100 buildings in the country have been damaged or destroyed, At least 1,336 people killed More than 1mn displaced #Cease_fire Now! #Gaza #Lebanon ft.com/content/e646b8… via @ft

Lebanon’s Southern border: A year in perspective-

The Beirut Urban Lab launches the English version of its platform "Government-Designated Shelters in Lebanon" updated on the 1st of October. You can access the platform experience.arcgis.com/experience/af2… Government-Designated Shelters in Lebanon beiruturbanlab.com/en/Details/200…

Urbicide 101: Destroy social and cultural landmarks that hold the collective memories of communities together to kill the chances of recovery. (Below: South Lebanon) #CeasefireNow! #Gaza #Lebanon

❤🤍💚

Visualizing Violence: The Beirut Urban Lab maps the scale and impact of the ongoing Israeli assault on Lebanon aub.edu.lb/msfea/news/Pag…

Howayda Al-Harithy: "Every destroyed mosque, church, or communal space is more than just a building. These sites are repositories of shared memories, rituals, & collective histories. ... Their loss cuts deep into what it means to belong."

44 thousand homes are empty in Beirut but none to spare for the displaced? The Beirut Urban Lab argues for a public authority to recover abandoned buildings as temporary housing for displaced families. Read more beiruturbanlab.com/en/Details/201…

In the early hours of 2025, my thought are of course with the people of Gaza and the ongoing ecocide, urbicide, and genocide. Nothing has been, is, or will be the same after Gaza.