Category Archives: urban/urbanisation

Resurrecting the Forgotten Bike Highways of 1930s Britain in Atlas Obscura

Posted on May 22, 2017 by

Sarah Laskow, Resurrecting the Forgotten Bike Highways of 1930s Britain in Atlas Obscura In the 1930s, Britain’s Ministry of Transport built an extensive network of bike highways around the country—at least 280 miles of paved, protected infrastructure dedicated to cyclists alone. … Continue reading →

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Farge and Foucault, Disorderly Families reviewed in the TLS (and discussed in podcast)

Posted on May 19, 2017 by

Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault, Disorderly Families: Infamous letters from the Bastille archives (edited by Nancy Luxon, translated by Thomas Scott-Railton) reviewed in the TLS: ‘Would you mind imprisoning my wife?‘ by Biancamaria Fontana. Update: it is also discussed in this TLS … Continue reading →

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Alexander Vasudevan, The Autonomous City: A History of Urban Squatting – Verso

Posted on March 22, 2017 by

Alexander Vasudevan, The Autonomous City: A History of Urban Squatting forthcoming with Verso in April. A radical history of squatting and the struggle for the right to remake the city The Autonomous City is the first popular history of squatting as practised … Continue reading →

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Visiting scholar, ACCESS Europe, University of Amsterdam

Posted on February 21, 2017 by

I’ll be spending several weeks between April and June 2017 as a visiting scholar at ACCESS Europe at the University of Amsterdam. ACCESS is the Amsterdam Centre for Contemporary European Studies. While there I will be giving a public lecture, leading a PhD reading seminar on … Continue reading →

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Eyal Weizman video interview on ‘Forensic Architecture – Investigating the Blueprint of War Crimes’ on Russia Today

Posted on January 27, 2017 by

Eyal Weizman video interview on ‘Forensic Architecture – Investigating the Blueprint of War Crimes’ on Russia Today. A fascinating discussion of what his Goldsmiths research agency Forensic Architecture does, and a robust response to hostile questioning. Eyal writes: A few … Continue reading →

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Neil Brenner, Critique of Urbanization: Selected Essays – now published

Posted on January 23, 2017 by

Neil Brenner, Critique of Urbanization: Selected Essays – now published by Birkhäuser Verlag. It’s a collection of largely previously published essays, but several were in hard-to-find places, and it has some new material. Urbanization is transforming the planet, within and … Continue reading →

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Henri Lefebvre, Marxist Thought and the City published and 30% discount code

Posted on December 8, 2016 by

Henri Lefebvre, Marxist Thought and the City, translated by Robert Bonnano and with a brief preface by me has been published by University of Minnesota Press. It is available in cloth and paperback editions, and can be ordered with a 30% discount … Continue reading →

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Urban Environments Research Network website now live

Posted on October 28, 2016 by

The Urban Environments Research Network website is now live: Cities are made from stone and glass, concrete and brick. City streets present a succession of shapes, signs and populations. As an assemblage, the city’s built qualities are the most readily … Continue reading →

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Saskia Sassen interviewed by Shamus Khan in Public Culture (requires subscription)

Posted on September 29, 2016 by

Saskia Sassen interviewed by Shamus Khan in Public Culture (requires subscription) Shamus Khan talks with Saskia Sassen about some of her most influential book projects, from The Mobility of Labor and Capital and The Global City to her recent publication, Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in … Continue reading →

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Stephen Graham, Vertical – forthcoming with Verso/Penguin

Posted on September 1, 2016 by

Stephen Graham’s new book, Vertical: The City from Sateillites to Bunkers, is forthcoming with Verso/Penguin-Random House. From the penthouse to the sewers—the political geography of the vertical city Vertical is a brilliant re-imagining of the world we live in. Today we … Continue reading →

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