New York City has experienced a boom in elite “luxury” housing development. @JohnLauermann writes that the resulting intensification of land investment leads to new kinds of displacements, especially middle-class displacement. bit.ly/3NiW35s

Plastic is a persistent problem but also a key mediator in apartments. Find out why, and how plastic is entangled with home and everyday high-rise living. Great working with co-authors Ralph Horne and Bhavna Middha, and with #TheGJ doi.org/10.1111/geoj.1…

How might starting from plastics change how we understand high density living? Ralph Horne Louise Dorignon Bhavna Middha explore how plastic ‘mediates the material inequalities of high-rise living’ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ge…

New in #GJ: 'High-rise plastic: Socio-material entanglements in apartments' by Ralph Horne, Louise Dorignon and Bhavna Middha (RMIT University). orlo.uk/dlBga

OnlineFirst - "Is ecology anti-urban? Urban ideas and imaginaries across one hundred years of ecological publications" by Silvia Flaminio, Joëlle Salomon Cavin, and Marco Moretti: Faculté Géosciences et Environnement - UNIL #urbanecology Project: p3.snf.ch/Project-179082 Paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Amidst pandemic and climatic upheaval, govts and corporates are promising huge decarbonisation investments and jobs bonanzas for regions. My new Aust Planner piece discusses risks and generative on-the-ground capacities: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… 🙏 @LauraCrommo Nick Osbaldiston 🦮🐕‍🦺🐕

Small things matter: #maintenance is an overlooked site for energy transitions in buildings. New paper with @RobynSydney and Pauline McGuirk based on Syd and Melb commercial property sector tandfonline.com/eprint/EJ5ZCB6…

🧐My book Critical Realism and Housing Research is now in paper back and on sale this week. It's a classic on CR and its application to the history of housing, with critical relevance to today. Enjoy! @RMIT_CUR AHURI AMS Institute ENHR routledge.com/Critical-Reali…

8/ The last regular paper in this issue is #openaccess: 'High-rise plastic: Socio-material entanglements in apartments' by Ralph Horne, Louise Dorignon and Bhavna Middha (RMIT University) #GJ: doi.org/10.1111/geoj.1…

Within the discourse of hotel imaginaries, Louise Dorignon and Wiesel compare the current development of urban apartment homes to the Australian housing dream bit.ly/3X361x6

We are happy to announce that the call for abstracts for the #IAG2023 conference is now open. Please visit iag23perth.com.au/call-for-abstr… for more information and to submit your abstract. @GeogResearch UWA Curtin University Wiley Geography & Anthropology #geography #AcademicTwitter

Cfp: Apartment developments models in a climate-compromised future. We invite contributions discussing apartment/home geographies and post-carbon housing. #IAG2023 Submit by 31/03.

Full-time postdoc for 18 months. Come work with Donald McNeill and I on the 'University and the City' ARC project. Based @Sydney_Arch with a bunch of great urban researchers ✔️ usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNAL_…

New research out 📄🏗 - Read our full report on building materials and #circulareconomy housing. We analysed the supply chains of manufactured building materials used by the Australian #housing industry and its capacity to decarbonise using #circularity p…lnkd.in/ge4fmX94

After many months of hard work it was a real pleasure to launch our research report co-authored with Joana Almeida Correia and Trivess Moore at the Master Builders Association of Victoria's Building a Transition Summit in Melbourne. The report's key them…lnkd.in/gJnZnDkP

Looking forward to diving into this collection of essays on the long-term impacts of residential high-rise buildings in the UK. Great to see plenty of evidence from residents themselves, and also that the provision of social infrastructure and longer life…lnkd.in/gB92qsKD

If anyone wants a long read on the contemporary crisis in rental housing, @liamdaviesau's excellent 2023 PhD thesis on this topic is now freely available from the RMIT University repository. Among his findings, public housing generates a financial surplus. researchrepository.rmit.edu.au/esploro/output…