Poster with title 'Making the case for hustle studies: thinking with Nairobi'. 24 March 2026 4 pm CEST

I'm honoured to chair the Beyond Inhabitation Lab seminar with Tatiana Thieme talking about her brilliant book "Hustle Urbanism: Making Life Work in Nairobi". Join us in person in Turin on 24 March or register online: polito-it.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

#urbangeography #Nairobi #urbanstudies

A person wearing a conference lanyard stands in front of a presentation screen above text that reads “How water shapes African cities: Wilfred Jana’s PhD on governance, inequality and urban development,” alongside the UCL logo.

Why does urban water inequality persist?

Congrats to Wilfred Jana 🎓 His PhD at @ucl.ac.uk Geography shows how water governance in Lilongwe shapes uneven urban development across local, national & global scales.

Find out more: tinyurl.com/ucl-jana

#UrbanGeography #WaterGovernance #AfricanCities

London’s environment in focus 🌍

The London Assembly seeks input on city priorities and progress. Geographers: how should urban policy tackle climate, green spaces, and inequality? Share your insights via: bit.ly/49tK1Ev

#UrbanGeography #ClimatePolicy #Cities

The Parking Lots: Decades under Development It all happened so quickly. Around 1960 most of the blocks at the north end of Centretown were scooped up by developers speculating on the r...

“Around 1960 most of the blocks at the north end of Centretown were scooped up by developers speculating on the rise of the concrete slab apartment building.”
[…]
#urbangeography
#613history #Ottawa

urbsite.blogspot.com/2010/03/park...

Photo of a row of brick houses at sunset with the text ‘Housing and Lives: How Where We Live Shapes Everything.'

Graphic showing a house icon with arrows pointing to symbols for health, work, relationships and finances, alongside the text ‘Our homes affect our health, work, relationships and finances.’

Graphic of a bar chart with a rising line graph above it, accompanied by the text ‘Tracking lives over time with social data.’

Two people standing at a table reviewing maps and documents in a workspace, shown next to the text ‘Learning to tackle urban and housing challenges.’

Housing debates focus on supply - but housing also shapes health, work and inequality.

New BSc Geography Insights article with Dr Rory Coulter on housing, data and urban change at @ucl.ac.uk Geography.

🔗 tinyurl.com/ucl-rory

#UCLGeography #Housing #UrbanGeography #BScGeography

#urbangeography #urbanstudies #book #globalsouth #periphery #technopolitics #resistances #southernepistemologies #alttech

#urbangeography #urbanstudies #book #globalsouth #periphery #technopolitics #resistances #southernepistemologies #alttech

towards an all-urban US?
#urbangeography #cities

Varvara Karipidou seated indoors, wearing a dark sweater and a name badge. There is a large window in the background showing greenery and an orange bag on a chair.

Big congratulations to Dr Varvara Karipidou on passing her PhD viva at @ucl.ac.uk Geography 🎉

Her research shows how everyday negotiations and informal networks shape Bucharest’s urban development.

Read more: tinyurl.com/ucl-eve

#UCLGeography #UrbanGeography #PhDLife #UrbanGovernance

Wow, there's a whole #HumanGeography lesson in that one photo, quite apart from all the local history! #Deindustrialisation #UrbanRegeneration #Housing #Brownfield #UrbanGeography

An enjoyable tangle of threads examining the size and scale of London relative to other UK cities.

Also did you know that London has a higher GDP than the whole of Sweden? 🇸🇪

#UrbanGeography #EconomicGeography

🎓 IV Premio a la Mejor Tesis Doctoral y II Premio Jóvenes Geógrafas/os
💰 Estado de cuentas y propuestas de gasto

¡Esperamos contar con vuestra participación y seguir construyendo, entre todas y todos, una geografía urbana activa y comprometida! 🌍

#GeografíaUrbana #AGE #Geografía #UrbanGeography

📢 Call for Abstracts: IGU Reg. Conference 2026 (Istanbul)

Together with M. José Piñeira, I’ll be chairing the session “Global Housing Crisis and Local Responses”.

📅 Deadline: 9 Jan 2026
🔗 Submission: www.irc2026.org/en/ABSTRACT-...

Boosts appreciated.

#IGU2026 #Housing #Policy #UrbanGeography

Why Paying Attention to the Streets Can Change How You See the City Most of us move through cities on autopilot. We commute, run errands, scroll our phones, and mentally prepare for the next task. It’s functional. But in the process, we miss more than the visual land...

My latest blog post, "Why Paying Attention to the Streets Can Change How You See the City“ jeffreyianross.com/why-paying-a... #city #observation #publicspace #semiotics #street #streetculture #streetlife #urban #urbanlife #urbanpublicspace #urbananthropology #urbangeography #urbansemiotics

Urbanization: Livin' in the City - Joseph Kerski, Ph.D. GISP This episode discusses how urbanization has impacted planet Earth and how geographers study urbanization.

My latest #podcast www.josephkerski.com/urbanization... on #urbangeography with a new episode appearing on 1 August!

A deindustrialising powerloom town which is now a burgeoning global logistics centre in the peripheries of Mumbai. Photo: Ayona Datta

A deindustrialising powerloom town which is now a burgeoning global logistics centre in the peripheries of Mumbai. Photo: Ayona Datta

A deindustrialising powerloom town which is now a burgeoning global logistics centre in the peripheries of Mumbai. Photo: Ayona Datta

🌍 Fieldwork in the Global South: @ayonadatta.bsky.social maps how digital tech reshapes urban peripheries, from Nairobi to Mumbai.

🛰️ Read the full story: tinyurl.com/ucl-digimap

#UCLGeography #Fieldwork #UrbanGeography #DigitalUrbanisation @ucl.ac.uk @erc.europa.eu

#Geography #Research #Environment #Conservation #Climate #Biodiversity #GIS #CAMPOP #Agriculture #Demography #Austerity #UrbanNature #UrbanGeography #Biogeography #Biogeomorphology #Glaciology #GlacialGeology #Quaternary #Volcanology #Dendrochronology #Dendro #PastClimate

#coastalresilience #climatechange #climatecrisis #criticalgeography #urbangeography #criticalsustainability #infrastructure #sustainability #cities #water #sealevelrise #geosky

#coastalresilience, #climatechange, #climatecrisis, #criticalgeography, #urbangeography, #criticalsustainability, #infrastructure, #sustainability, #cities, #water, #sealevelrise, #geosky

A recent study by Tulane University shows parts of #NewOrleans and surrounding wetlands are sinking at alarming rates of up to 1.9 inches (47 mm) per year.

Read more and subscribe in the top-left corner for more #news in #maps: us10.campaign-archive.com?u=023a4ebf81...

#sinking #urbangeography

Welcoming @iliana.ortega.alcazar to the ESRC small homes project, on a hot day in Ldn. #smallhouseliving #smallhousung #urbangeography #sheffieldgeography #kingscollegelondon

Why Northern Australia Has No Major Cities Northern Australia is rich in resources and close to Asia. So why is it still empty? Discover how geography, history, and strategy kept cities away.

Northern Australia sits next to Southeast Asia.
It's rich in minerals.
It's crucial for shipping and strategy.
And yet... there’s no major city.
👉 www.ryanjhite.com/2025/06/21/w...
#Australia #DarwinNT #UrbanGeography #AsiaPacific #GlobalTrade

Reno’s Neon Line: Interrogating an urban imaginary | Intellect The way urban spaces are imagined has significant implications for the way cities are developed and redeveloped. In 2017, Jacobs Entertainment announced the development of the ‘Neon Line District’ in the western portion of downtown Reno, Nevada. To develop this space, Jacobs purchased and demolished many of the neighbourhoods’ historic motels, which had become a stock of housing of last resort for the city. The purpose of this research is to interrogate that space between the discursive representations of the Neon Line neighbourhood and the material spaces constructed and deconstructed based on those imaginaries. Drawing on literatures on the production of urban space, urban semiotics and urban imaginaries, I developed a multi-method approach to compare the content of the texts of the urban landscape to the social texts produced about it. I found that parallel representations of the space were presented to the public, with representations of the neighbourhood as a site of urban decay being amplified and the new ‘Neon Line’ imaginary being presented as a solution. The developers use of Reno’s historic neon and art from Burning Man suggests the new arts district created has been so for the purposes of attracting tourists with representations of ‘Reno-ness’, while the construction of hostile architecture amidst the Neon Line highlights the reconfiguring of who and what gets to be the public in this neighbourhood meant to revitalize the city. This research highlights the potency of urban imaginaries in shaping the urban material through practices of urban revitalization and the ways that social space is constructed simultaneously through the material and the discursive.

I am excited to share that my article about Reno's Neon Line District is now published in the Journal of Urban Culture Studies. While not my main focus, studying the changes in Reno's urban landscape has been a fun side quest during my PhD. Check it out! #urbangeography #criticalgeography #Reno

#mittwochsimGIUB

Next week, Dr. Alexandr Novacek (University of #Ostrava) will give a talk on "Child-friendly cities as a solution to urban shrinkage"

When? May 21, 12:15 pm
Where? Lecture Hall, Dept. of Geography

#geosky #geography #urbangeography

#mittwochsimGIUB

Prof. Dr. Michael Mießner (@unitrier.bsky.social) is giving a talk on 'Wohnungsfragen überall? Eine geographische Perspektive auf das Wohnen'

When? April 23, 17:15 pm
Where? Lecture Hall, Dept. of Geography

#housing #socialgeography #urbangeography #geosky #geography

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Thessaloniki social atlas, the changing urban geography of Thessaloniki through texts, maps and data

thessalonikisocialatlas.arch.auth.gr/en/

#urbangeography #Thessaloniki #socialatlas

Hey, I’m doing a literature review on residential mobility and neighborhood selection after partnership formation, focusing on native-migrant couples in Sweden. Would appreciate any recommendations!

#Demography #Sociology #MigrationStudies #UrbanGeography #ResidentialMobility #NeighborhoodSelection

Happy to have one of my favorite journals here on bsky now! Give them a follow and read all the great work being done on #urbangeography all over the world.

New year, new platform, new volume & issue #urbangeography

This space will contain further updates on the Animapolis project! If you want to know more about urban inequalities, infrastructures, rats and dogs, please follow us!

#UrbanGeography #Multispecies 🐀🐕