Professor of Urban Geography, Durham https://xitter.cf/t.co/Do5S8RQe9I DenCity: https://xitter.cf/t.co/jDHMEGfqjw
Durham, England
Joined November 2011
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New piece in @ProgHumGeog, 'Crisis-thinking and critical urbanism'. What might crisis-thinking be doing to how the urban is conceived, researched, and politicised? How might it impact how we see urban possibility?
Open access here:
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A special issue here of the journal Agoriad entitled 'Thinking with fragments: The allure of the broken, discarded, and disjointed in urban space'.
Exploring what the 'fragment' might offer as a way of thinking about and writing the urban.
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Some thoughts on what what crisis is doing to the urban imagination - short piece as part of a collection in Dialogues in Urban Research: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
A huge thank you to the wonderful people at @metropolis_org this award! I was so honoured & grateful opportunity in Seoul to focus attention on the global urban sanitation crisis. Thank you to @VersoBooks for nominating the book, & to the Pattis Family.
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Congrats to Rozy Fredericks and collaborators on this great new film on waste in Dakar - trailer available here for 'The Waste Commons'.
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Last month the latest global data on sanitation was published. I wrote a short blog on it below. Spoiler: for all that there has been very welcome improvements, 1 in 5 people still lack even basic sanitation.
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This is a great little collection in Transactions on 'worlding geography' and area studies... rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.… @RGS_IBG
New piece with Simon Marvin & Jon Rutherford on 'infrastructural extensions'. We examine how infrastructure is being stretched into new domains (the elemental, care, more-than-human, cyber-physical, & neurotechnical). Open access in @IJURResearch
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Colin McFarlane retweeted
Hey, @Keir_Starmer you said ‘my ministers will leave no stone unturned to give every child the best start at life’
❗️Scrapping the two-child limit in Universal Credit would lift 670,000 people out of severe hardship.
THIS is a stone you need to turn over.
ALT Keir Starmer chats to a girl at a table in a primary school. A headline is on top that reads: Breaking: Keir Starmer, it's time to face facts and end the two-child limit on benefits
Chuffed that my book 'Waste and the City' has gone from the longlist to the shortlist with two excellent books here, alongside Shakirah E. Hudani and @stephwakefield_ Many thanks to Metropolis...
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New paper on density - asking how residents experience everyday densities as 'resource', 'threshold', & imaginary of the urban future. Open access. Such a pleasure to work with wonderful colleagues in Dar es Salaam on this.
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My book 'Waste and the City' is listed here amongst 9 others for the 2025 Pattis Family Foundation Global Cities Book Award. Should you wish some additional summer reading :) metropolis.org/news/10-books…
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The latest special issue of Urbanisation on 'Overlooked People, Places and Practices: Shifting the Gaze in Asian and South African Cities' is free to access all through July 2025.
Read more at: urbanisationjournal.com/#cur…
#FreeAccess #SpecialIssue
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Fresh off the press: Read the latest special issue of Urbanisation, curated by guest editors Isolde de Villiers and Julia Wesely, on 'Overlooked People, Places and Practices: Shifting the Gaze in Asian and South African Cities'.
Visit bit.ly/3VPTzBF
#SpecialIssue
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25 grad students will have accommodation provided (deadline June 9) for this fee-free Summer School, University of Bologna, Italy, Sept 8-12, "Dissonant memories: geographies of migration, colonialism and trauma". centri.unibo.it/memorylab/it… #unibo
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Density is central to what a city is and how it works. But how should we study its role in urban development? This paper proposes a ‘density dialectic’ to rethink urban change, grounded in research in London.
By: Victoria Habermehl & @ColinMcFarlane3
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On a sunny Friday morning, chuffed to learn that my book, Waste and the City, has been long listed for this cities award, by Metropolis :)
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More info on the book here:
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How does density come to matter in urban change? This paper by Vicky Habermehl & I is in this issue of IJURR - setting out a dialectics of urban density based on our research in London.
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We’ve got a 3 year lecturership in human geog and gender at King’s now advertised.
Deadline 6th May 2025
Please spread the word!
jobs.ac.uk/job/DMS710/lectur…
@GFG_RGSIBG
Colin McFarlane retweeted
New in Urbanisation: Book review of Waste and the City: The Crisis of Sanitation and the Right to Citylife by Colin McFarlane.
Read more at urbanisationjournal.com.
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