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The Urban Theory Lab's website is back in action after a little (5 year!) hiatus: urbantheorylab.net Please do stop by and have a look around ....

“Epic ... the definitive text of the war”

Days of Love and Rage by Anand Gopal reviewed in @nytimes.com:
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/b...

Congratulations!

Last few days of the Call for Entries for the European Prize for Public Space 2026, organised by Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB): www.publicspace.org. Super proud to be supporting through the prize's Board of Experts.
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#publicspaceprize2026 #cities #publicspace

Thanks for sharing

Yes, we have a book launch next Wednesday at the AA Bookshop. Please come!

Just out, the collective nature of landscape: www.routledge.com/Collective-L... #landscape #justice #architecture

Mustafa Suleyman & Bill Gates on Today, BBC Radio 4 - asked what benefits #AI could bring to healthcare, Gates’ second suggestion was that ‘it could help explain your bill’. We don’t have ‘bills’ in the UK for healthcare, but thanks for being honest about the direction of travel.

Opinion | I’ve Been the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees for a Decade. This Is the Crisis I See.

"Today, some 117 million people have been forced to flee their homes... The tools to help them survive, rebuild and eventually return home already exist. But they require time, cooperation, trust and a desire to invest in peace rather than war."

Filippo Grandi

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/o...

Happy Christmas Will!

Architecture for Warfare came out this week. While much of my writing speculates optimistically at the possibilities of landscape and architectural practice, this research funded by the Graham Foundation, examines some of the limits. www.jovis.de/en/book/9783...

Thanks Will for sharing 🙏🏼 www.jovis.de/en/book/9783...

New leader says Unison will end support for ‘destructive’ Labour right wing Blunt remarks indicate UK’s largest union may be on collision course with Wes Streeting and Labour more widely

Great news www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Humanitarianism - e-flux

Brilliant Humanitarianism series on e-flux. @eflux.bsky.social @jonathanlukeaustin.bsky.social @alucidwake.bsky.social

www.e-flux.com/architecture...

Rocks, Dornoch Beach, October 2025

Geert Wilders didn’t lose the Dutch election - he had already won Dutch politics has been transformed by 20 years of hateful speech about foreigners

The Dutch radical right maintained its vote share this election. One election pledge was to deport the “children and grandchildren” of migrants.
No amount of integration will ever be enough for some, because their policies are just a thin veil for bigotry
My piece
www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...

Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending' A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." Stephanie Sy examines what’s b...

A Nature poll found that 75% of U.S. researchers are considering leaving the country.

Guyz, even the *historians* are leaving or contemplating / likely to go. Including, at least 3 historians that I know of in my subfield. 😢

It still worries me, and my teenage years are far behind!

Yup

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,344 Here are the key events from day 1,344 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Here are the key events from day 1,344 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

How do you move a village? Residents of France’s last outpost in North America try to outrun the sea As rising tides eat away at the Saint-Pierre and Miquelon archipelago off Canada, plans to move the historic village to higher ground have divided residents

Outrun rhe sea… www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Amid a war on public knowledge, libraries are pushing outward, enlarging the commons through new configurations of civic and creative life.

In her latest — and, yes, 34th! — article for Places, @shannonmattern.bsky.social writes about building the infrastructure we need to keep ourselves free.

Thank you Shannon! I hope the published version does credit to everyone who read the drafts! ♥️

We’ve received a lot of questions about Trump’s demolition of the White House East Wing.

Here’s how the process is supposed to work:

And yes, Aaron and I were in contact over email, but I need to arrange something for early next year :)

Thanks for the shout out Will, nice timing because the link just went live this week www.jovis.de/en/book/9783...

All Eyes on the Border Materialized in steel and concrete, patrolled and “performed” by state apparatuses and sensing technologies, the border is charged by the politics of recognition.

We can add to this mix the proliferation of private ICE detention facilities and speculative Gaza redevelopment and border tech (I wrote about an earlier era back in 2018:) and and and…

‘Another Nakba’: UN expert says Gaza recovery will take generations UN special rapporteur on right to housing says Palestinians returning to destroyed northern Gaza face 'profound trauma'.

UN special rapporteur on right to housing says Palestinians returning to destroyed northern Gaza face 'profound trauma'.

UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests

There is so much wrong with this: “Universities in the UK reassured arms companies they would monitor students’ chat groups and social media accounts…”
www.theguardian.com/education/20...