Walking the tightrope between satisfying my curiosity and doing some good in the world. Urban researcher, dev practitioner, teacher and, best of all, mother.
Durban, South Africa
Joined September 2014
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The One Where All Our Hearts Are Broken 💔💔
To borrow Janice's saddest line - "Goodbye, Chandler Bing" 😭😭
Matthew Perry, 1969 - 2023
Jennifer Houghton retweeted
Applications are now open for UTA-Do African Cities Workshop (Jan, 2024). This year, we are in Dar. Scholars, artists and activists, apply!
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Good work from a German ad agency which reads "protect the wildlife before it's too late"
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why does zoom have offices
ALT A tall glass building where Zoom is headquartered surrounded by palm trees and a street light on Notre Dame Ave
Jennifer Houghton retweeted
Do more participatory decision-making processes lead to better environmental outcomes?
This paper finds three factors that significantly influence environmental governance outcomes. Power delegation to participants is the most consistent predictor - sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Issue 2 is out, and it contains a wonderful book review forum on @ShaneDPhillips The Affordable City: Strategies for Putting Housing within Reach (and Keeping It There). Commentary from Katrin Anacker, @AnnaGHansson, @stuhodkinson and Steffen Wetzstein
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Thinking about doing a PhD vs actually doing a PhD
ALT Two pictures, on the left a happy barbie, on the right, Oppenheimer
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Calgro pulled out of the KwaMashu Bridge City project. #eThekwini suffering from poor municipal and a provincial governance that fails citizens at almost every turn.
Calgro M3 says it no longer has exposure to KwaZulu-Natal owing to the construction mafia that put its employees and assets at risk.
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One of the two 2023 @RegionalStudies Best Policy Debates Awards goes to Alessandro Sancino @DrMaxPolitics Alessandro Braga & Leslie Budd for their #openaccess paper 'What can city leaders do for climate change?' Find out more at bit.ly/3L3iFc3
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How to make working paper series work (again) to help geographers and geography? If you have any ideas, please reply! @regstud @fingeonet @economyandspace @GCEG_Dublin2022 @econgeog
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Social capital—and, especially, networking—is pivotal for #labour #productivity #growth.
The firms that benefit the most from #SocialCapital are smaller #firms, with low capacity to innovate on their own, and operating in low-#technology sectors.
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As someone who speaks from having experienced the bottom of one of these traps (yup, all the way down to the sewerage), and is STILL suffering the consequences from having smashed my bone to pieces 10 YEARS LATER, I can only get behind this activism!!!!
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Institutional weaknesses in SA are largely a consequence of 4 policy developments: politicisation of administrations; indifference to skills, espec. technical skills; managerialism; and outsourcing gov to private businesses. @IChipkin dailymaverick.co.za/opinioni…
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Since writing a story on Queensland Police Services' recruitment call for SA police to join their force in Australia, I have received 42 emails from constables for more info and the application link. Before you comment on the demographic, let me tell you, its not what you think.
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Transport #infrastructure alone does not generate economic #development.
It acts in combination with #institutions & #innovation in the regional #economy.
Useful overview by @ramespok, @lbertolini63 & te Brömmelstroet in #TRIP.
doi.org/10.1111/jors.12264
doi.org/10.1016/j.trip.2023.…
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1970: One more lane will fix it.
1980: One more lane will fix it.
1990: One more lane will fix it.
2000: One more lane will fix it.
2010: One more lane will fix it.
2020s: This might be the wrong approach
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If walking costs you $1, we all pay $0.01. If biking costs you $1, we all pay $0.08. If bussing costs you $1, we all pay $1.50. If driving costs you $1, we all pay $9.20. Via @thediscourse study.
This isn’t just about choice. It’s about who pays for your choice.
#citymakingmath
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North American cities often go from skyscrapers to sprawl because we’ve made middle housing styles like fourplexes and mixed-use multiplexes illegal. If we want to build livable, human-scale places again, we have to start by legalizing them with zoning and parking reforms.
