Deutsche Wiedervereinigung: »Ein einmaliger Glücksfall der Geschichte« In der Wendezeit gelang es Michael Succow, große Flächen in der DDR unter Naturschutz zu stellen.

Ein großer Held der Wendezeit! Michael Succow wird morgen 85 Jahre - ich durfte mit ihm über das Tafelsilber der Einheit sprechen www.spektrum.de/news/michael...

Boston and the Making of a Global City, event pictures with speakers and audience

Event recap: Boston and the Making of a Global City, with Jim O'Connell, Loretta Lees and Michael Hoyler

www.bu.edu/ioc/2026/04/...

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Travel back in time with the TCPA Archive!

This free to access archive is a treasure trove for anyone interested in planning, garden cities & the built environment.

It includes fully digitised back issues of Town & Country Planning journal & the Bulletin of Environmental Education:

Vollkommen empiriefreies Geschwurbel.

The Warehouse, in Plain Sight That concrete box off the freeway wasn’t designed for storage so much as capture. It’s a disappearing machine. We need to see it clearly.

"The ships, the trucks, the loading docks: these are containers of immiserated labor, and so they are also containers of revolutionary potential," writes @charmainechua.bsky.social, for "An Unfinished Atlas."

Chua's latest is a call to "jam up" and "break apart" the disappearing machine.

„Fundierte Empirie wäre […] anzuerkennen, dass der Wettbewerbsnachteil deutscher Hochschulen & Wissenschaftseinrichtungen sicher nicht in zu viel Diversitätsförderung oder ihrem gesellschaftlichen Engagement besteht, sondern in dysfunktionalen & intransparenten wissenschaftlichen Stellenstrukturen.“

Auf dem Boden liegen Bilderrahmen mit Ausstellungsplakaten in verschiedenen Farben mit historischen Dokumenten und Fotos.

Zu unserer #Wanderausstellung anlässlich 75 Jahre #Emslandplan habe ich eine lokalgeschichtliche Ergänzung für #Schüttorf entwickelt. Eröffnung ist am 14.04. um 17:30 Uhr im #KunstWerk Schüttorf. Kommt einfach vorbei!

🧵 New report just dropped 🚨 "Fractured Reality: How Democracy Can Win the Global Struggle Over the Information Space" — from the EU Joint Research Centre, led by Mario Scharfbillig and I. A landmark read for anyone working on disinformation, platforms & democracy. 👇

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Civil society in crisis times: new geographies of governance in an era of AI Governments worldwide are grappling with the advent of AI and its potential for governance, improving public services and impacts for its citizenry. This provocation outlines these unfolding geogra...

📣 💻 New provocation paper with Irene Hardill, @sophiemilnes.bsky.social and Rhys Dafydd Jones - 'Civil society in crisis times: new geographies of governance in an era of AI' #civilsociety #digital #AI #citizenship #devolution #adviceservices www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New paper in @proghumgeog.bsky.social. Some great colleagues' work is sampled @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social @landstuff.bsky.social @brettchristophers.bsky.social @azadehakbari.bsky.social @jamiepeck.bsky.social @reijer.bsky.social
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#geosky #ipesky

Damit Rechtsextremismus nicht normal wird: Demokratie stärken im ländlichen Raum

Auf der Tagung "Damit #Rechtsextremismus nicht normal wird: Demokratie stärken im #ländlichenRaum", 22.-24.4. @akademieloccum.bsky.social spricht Dr. Andreas Kallert zu "Unzufrieden und abgehängt? Stabilität und Akzeptanz des demokratischen Systems in ländlichen Räumen".
www.loccum.de/tagungen/2618/

#Amazon is neither a company, nor a commodity.

Er weiß es nicht besser, und er will es auch gar nicht besser wissen.

Great insight and fantastic pics of a rather special case of Soviet urbanism in today’s #Georgia.

This week, Brexit finally killed our family business. We cleared out our warehouse, handed back the keys, paid the final bills and said goodbye to our last employee.
What was once a thriving firm died a slow, sad death, all thanks to Farage, Johnson and the gullible idiots they conned. 1/18

I was more wondering about the seller’s policy on whether or not spreading critical thoughts. Or are they only in it for the money…?

Interesting to see it is (still) on sale at #Amazon.com.

Europe’s regional #inequality persists not because poorer places lack #investment, but because #income leaks away from them with regularity.
@andrecarrascal.bsky.social & Hewings show in @spatialeconomic.bsky.social how capitals are suction pumps in #Europe’s economic system.
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[copy] Stark photos show quest for profit cutting swathes through the Amazon Photographer Lalo de Almeida has been documenting the industrialisation taking place in the Amazon rainforest after the Brazilian government relaxed environmental controls

This is the reality on the ground in the Amazon: chaos & destruction. Now, with the unconstitutional approval to pave the BR-319 highway, granted without environmental licensing or consultation w/Indigenous communities, the rainforest faces collapse!

www.newscientist.com/article/2522...

Die Mischung aus großer Klappe (und nichts auf die Kette kriegen), ideologischer Überhöhung und inkompetentem Personal wird ihm auf die Füße fallen—solange die politischen Märkte noch einigermaßen funktionieren.

Eine Mehrwertsteuererhöhung pünktlich zum Ölpreisschock ist genau so sinnvoll wie die Gasumlage mitten in der Energiekrise 2022.

Die Regierung macht sich bereit Öl ins Feuer der Krise der Leistbarkeit des Lebens zu gießen.

I was at a #NoKings rally yesterday and rather than writing another essay about why this matters I will just say that it is pure joy to meet the people who want to stand out and the people who are doing the work. Thank you.

In this response essay, I reflect upon how some of the central themes of my book Silicon Valley Imperialism: Techno Fantasies and Frictions in Postsocialist Times (Duke University Press, 2024) speak to the contemporary technofascist moment, as well as ongoing practices of attempting to de–siliconize the future. I also offer fascist transformations currently transpiring on both sides of the former Iron Curtain, as well as the landscapes of gentrification upon which they take place, a deeper and transnational genealogy–one rooted in historic technologies of racial banishment, heteromasculinism, and anticommunism. At the same time, I celebrate the ongoing freedom struggles against fascism, racial banishment, and genocidal technologies that organizers in both the United States and Romania continue to commit themselves to, all in an interconnected effort to unbecome Silicon Valley. Throughout this essay, I engage with the insightful comments made by Kavita Dattani, Michele Lancione, Manissa M. Maharawal, Nassim Parvin, Gillian Rose, and Daniela Rosner here, each of whom offer brilliant interventions and generous reflections in this forum.

"Siliconization, technofascism, and their unbecomings"
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Thanks to Kavita Dattani, Manissa Maharawal, Daniela Rosner, @nassimparvin.bsky.social, @profgillian.bsky.social and @michelelancione.bsky.social
@societyandspace.bsky.social
@dukepress.bsky.social

London, San Francisco and Beijing achieve ‘remarkable reductions’ in air pollution Cycle lanes, electric cars and other interventions have helped 19 global cities slash levels of pollutants by more than 20%

London, San Francisco and Beijing are among 19 global cities that have achieved ‘remarkable reductions’
in air pollution, slashing pollutant levels by more than 20% since 2010…”interventions such as cycle lanes, electric cars and restrictions on polluting vehicles helped to drive the improvements.”

The lost promise of green chemistry or “its a bit late to realise just how dependent on oil you are”, the Hormuz edition

Hormuz lays bare our fossil dependency on one of the most unappreciated building blocks of modern life - chemicals. All 350,000 of them.

But why haven't we learn't to make chemical some other way?

On the failed promise of green chemistry

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12 month postdoc post working on my ERC funded Data Stories project. The role is to undertake a comprehensive data audit of the data terrain of housing, property and planning in Northern Ireland & compare to Republic of Ireland. Closing date 31 March 2026. Job details: my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...

Abbildung des Berichtstitels: Stellungnahme zum Entwurf des Klimaschutzprogramms (Stand Entwurf 18. März 2026) ​

"Erreichung der Emissionsminderungsziele erfordert Nachbesserungen am Klimaschutzprogramm 2026" zu dem Ergebnis kommt der #Expertenrat in seiner Stellungnahme zum heute beschlossenen Entwurf des Klimaschutzprogramms 2026. Die Stellungnahme ist hier verfügbar: expertenrat-klima.de Die Kernpunkte:🧵

Airport expansion is back on the agenda. Bristol shows us what's at stake. - CAST Dr Lois Pennington explores what the Bristol Airport inquiry, decided three years ago, still has to tell us.

With five UK airports seeking to expand, and the government broadly backing them, Dr Lois Pennington joined Geographical Magazine's new podcast "On the Ground" to explore what the #BristolAirportInquiry, decided three years ago, still has to tell us.

Read Lois' CAST blog post exploring the topic 👇

ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowships are available in Human Geography at Aberystwyth, Cardiff, and Swansea Universities. wgsss.ac.uk/fellowships/. Interested candidates should email me as soon as possible. c.m.muellerleile@swansea.ac.uk
Initial deadline is May 1, 2026.
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