Is smart city a slogan? Evidence from China by Yong Zhou, Fan Xiao and Weipeng Deng in Asian Geographer tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Concrete community-led proposals to build back fairer - a must-read ahead of local UK elections (& yes, responses to the crisis of care and multiple environmental crises loom large) justspace.org.uk/recovery/ Just Space

Wann die Regierung nicht 'smart' ist, ist 'Smart City' nur ein Zeichen von Modernismus. Leider ist es so in meinem lieben Heimatland.

Launch of Southern Urbanist Practice Reading/Doing Group on Tuesday 15 Nov, 3pm BST on Teams. Hosted by UCL Postgrad Urbanists

Most serious moment since Tiananmen in 89. Hard to see the genie get put back in the bottle. A soft touch needed; a hammer much more likely to come next. And then who knows…

🎉 You are all warmly invited to the first session of a new 'reading and doing' group about Southern Urbanism and its Practices. 📆 Tuesday 6th December, 14.30-16:00 GMT (also via Microsoft Teams: shorturl.at/kpsL7) 📍 Room 2.01 of Wates House, 22 Gordon St.

Would like to print one on a t-shirt for summer, and the other on a sweatshirt for winter.

I am really excited that my forthcoming book is now available for pre-order! Thank you University of Michigan Press #Anthropology #China #Qingdao #Dabaodao #redevelopment #heritage #colonialism Seeking a Future for the Past press.umich.edu/12315869

Great time at the #DigitalGeographies conference! Engaging with fellow researchers is always enlightening. Fascinating empirical research on smart city making in Belfast, Germany, Japan, US, Amsterdam, and Milan. Let's keep the insightful discussions going!

Key Thinkers on Space and Place, 3rd edition, just submitted to the publisher. 38 entries culled, 34 added. Thanks to all the authors for entries and to co-editors @m_gilmartin Phil Hubbard sue roberts. Hopefully published in March 2024

Free resources for better understanding the occupation of Palestine and the ongoing struggle for liberation.

Register here to participate in an open forum convened by the RGS-IBG in response to an open letter concerning the Society's cancellation of a venue hire booking by PalFest in October 2023. 🗓️Monday 5th February 2024 🕐3-4:30pm rgs.org/events/upcomin…

Statement regarding my sacking from Max Planck Society hageba2a.blogspot.com/2024/02/statem…

Grateful to my friend Michael Herzfeld. We’ve had disagreements but we never question each other’s ethical commitment to better Israeli-Palestinians relations. The cheap circulation of 'antisemite' cheapens the classification and blunts its capacity to do the work it ought to do.

This is reflective of the prevailing grass root academic views in Germany as i have experienced them. With one important difference: the courage to publicly upholding them in the face of institutional power. An example for us all. aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/…

About Yves Cabannes who died. whether you agree or disagree with him, this is a wonderful, searching, original mind beloved of community organizations and local governments …networker extraordinaire …. some day we must celebrate his work. very few people know of his seminal