Thanks for the very generous and inspiring comment by Kurt Iveson on our (w/Ross Beveridge) article #seeingdemocracylikeacity in DialoguesinUrbanResearch.

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#urbanfutures #urbandemocracy #urbanhistories

The social lives of rental proptech: Entanglements between capitalist, care and techno-utopian values - New work on our proptech project is out! Dallas Rogers Peta Wolifson and myself look at the contradictory values that circulate through proptech.
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I had a great chat with richard glover on ABC702 for Self-Improvement Wednesday: Where did NIMBY come from? abc.net.au/listen/program…

My new article in Political Geography: Building on the important work of Kurt Iveson and Amanda Tattersall, the article applies their five strategies of housing movements and finds that, for Vienna, solidaristic discourse + reduced #stigma is a common factor. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S09…

Revealed: Sydney’s worst bus stops and why they are a health hazard -- great to see this important work by Sweltering Cities, supported by SydneyUniGeo students, in the news. Time for a serious effort to improve bus stop infrastructures in Sydney. smh.com.au/national/nsw/r…

This is a proper birthday present for someone of my vintage ... apparently sourced by tapping into a network of folks who are restoring and swapping such artefacts. Sooo much fun.

“If [the labour movement] continues to see more production, damn the consequences, as the way it has got to take out of avoidable poverty, it is simply going to produce its own general redundancy.” Raymond Williams 1984 on Ecology & the Labour Movement youtube.com/watch?v=EiFWHt…

There's a reason Reagan declared war on unions before he declared war on everything else - environmental protection, health care, consumer rights, financial regulation. Unions are how working people fight for a better world for all of us.

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Last year our clients, two Knitting Nannas, took legal action to defend the democratic right of people to peacefully protest.

Today, we won on parts of the Constitutional grounds of our case!

📢NEWS📢 The 2024 Urban Geography Plenary Lecture American Association of Geographers will be given by Dallas Rogers with Anne Bonds & Marina Karides as discussants - look out for this one if you'll be in Honolulu urbangeographyjournal.org/events/plenary…

Around 1.19 million people cast ballots in Hong Kong's 'patriots only' District Council elections on Sunday. The 27.5 per cent turnout for the opposition-free polls is a fraction of the 71.2 per cent seen in 2019. In full: hongkongfp.com/2023/12/11/bre…

Great piece from Laurence Troy: Australia's 'deeply unfair' housing system is in crisis – and our politicians are failing us theconversation.com/australias-dee… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

People power isn't just a place-based thing - it is exchanged and connected across the world. Kurt Iveson and I have just published in @cityjournal an extensive map of of people power in cities - examining over 1500 examples!
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A good example of how saying 'no' to some developments might work in the service of more affordable housing! 'New housing rules [designed to stop blocks of flats being turned into luxury houses] ‘only way to stop Sydney becoming a ghetto for the rich’' smh.com.au/national/nsw/n…

BBC Agnes Chow interview: 'In the last three years, it has become a place full of fear. Every part of my daily life was fully controlled by the authorities,' she said. 'I feel sad to be afraid to go to back to my homeland.'

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Our latest report uncovers the ongoing injustice of wage theft in our universities.

Stand up for transparency & accountability now!

Read the report here: bit.ly/wagereport

Sign the petition today: bit.ly/accordpetition

3 out of 4 women in NSW would walk more if they felt safer in public spaces... Are you one of them?

YourGround NSW NSW is a new project by xyxlab asking women and gender-diverse people to pin a spot and share their experiences about safety across NSW: pulse.ly/dex09ioy78

New paper (w/ Ross Beveridge) in DialoguesinUrbanResearch

#Urbanisation is changing #democracy . In this paper, we outline a democratic politics that shifts perspectives from institutions to practices, from jurisdictional scales to spaces of collective urban life.
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New book coming very soon! A critical and introductory field guide to the political economy of climate finance, from Sophie Webber and me agendapub.com/page/detail/cl…