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The Journal of Architecture @thejoa.bsky.social · 2d

📢We have a whole range of thematic calls on highlight topics - please have a look here 💥https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/rjar-thematic-calls/

The Journal of Architecture – Thematic calls

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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · Sep 5

I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
– Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Luisa Sotomayor @luisasotomayor.bsky.social · May 3

We're in fundraising mode at @cityinstitute.bsky.social to secure endowment funds to honour the inspiring work of our dear colleagues and CITY's former Directors @rkeil.bsky.social and Linda Peake. Please contribute if you can - those in 🇨🇦 will get a tax receipt: donate.yorku.ca/site/Donatio...

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Deljana Iossifova @deljana.bsky.social · Jun 12

📢Join me and the Journal of Architecture (RIBA) team as a Reviews Editor - you will develop a new section on critical reviews of the literature, books, exhibitions & events. Remote, ~2 hrs/week, £3k honorarium. Apply now! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...

RIBA hiring Reviews Editor, The Journal of Architecture in United Kingdom | LinkedIn

Posted 11:43:23 AM. Be part of the vision; be part of RIBA. RIBA is a global professional membership body, and a…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.

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Deljana Iossifova @deljana.bsky.social · Jun 1

Loving this so much ❤️

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Deljana Iossifova @deljana.bsky.social · May 28

What makes a village beautiful? Listening to villagers in rural China’s revitalisation drive -> new paper with Yu Yan and Long Zhou on rural classification and community needs in Zhejiang Province 📝https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13467581.2025.2510612#d1e199

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · May 8

📢 To celebrate the release of C.P. Pow: Selected Essays (2025), USF will dedicate one 2025 International Fellowship in his memory — for an urban scholar from or working in East & Southeast Asia.

🔗 Learn more: ow.ly/u7KN50VOxlH

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Deljana Iossifova @deljana.bsky.social · Apr 16

‘C.P. Pow: Selected Essays’ is now available through the Urban Studies Foundation. It includes some of Pow's most incisive and quietly radical work on the urban. I had the privilege of writing the introduction – a small gesture of respect for a scholar whose absence since 2021 is still deeply felt.

Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · Apr 16

📚 C.P. Pow: selected essays—new USF book release! 📚

The USF is proud to publish a collection of ten key papers by the late C.P. Pow—celebrating his contributions to urban studies and his role as a former USF Trustee.

🔗 Download the book here: www.urbanstudiesfoundation.org/2025/04/15/c...

C.P. Pow: selected essays (cover and quote)

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · Apr 16

📚 C.P. Pow: selected essays—new USF book release! 📚

The USF is proud to publish a collection of ten key papers by the late C.P. Pow—celebrating his contributions to urban studies and his role as a former USF Trustee.

🔗 Download the book here: www.urbanstudiesfoundation.org/2025/04/15/c...

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The Journal of Architecture @thejoa.bsky.social · Apr 10

📢 Delighted to see The Journal of Architecture ranked Q1 in the latest SJR metrics 💥 As one of the leading international journals engaging critically with architecture and the built environment, we remain committed to publishing field-defining work.
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Deljana Iossifova @deljana.bsky.social · Feb 24

27 Feb, 10:00, join the USL PhD cohort for a review of their projects. Whitworth Hall, Keepers' Room.

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Deljana Iossifova @deljana.bsky.social · Feb 6

What??? archinect.com/news/article...

Trump signs new executive order mandating Classical styles for federal architecture

One of the two dozen or so new Trump Administration’s executive orders issued since assuming office includes a mandate for the restoration of an amalgam of classicism-inspired

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Evelyne de Leeuw @evdle.bsky.social · Feb 1

What is ‘urban health’?
We’ve given it some thought:

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Deljana Iossifova @deljana.bsky.social · Jan 30

Defining urban health for strategic action? A co-authored WHO strategy paper, just published, comments and reviews encouraged and very welcome. f1000research.com/articles/14-...

F1000Research Article: Defining Urban Health for Strategic Action.

Read the latest article version by José Gabriel Siri, Jinhee Kim, Katherine Indvik, Evelyne de Leeuw, Carlos Dora, Franz Gatzweiler, Elsa Holm, Deljana Iossifova, Francisco Obando, Jean Simos, at F100...

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Evelyne de Leeuw @evdle.bsky.social · Jan 30

Read (and critique!) our newest here:

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F1000Research Article: Defining Urban Health for Strategic Action.

Read the latest article version by José Gabriel Siri, Jinhee Kim, Katherine Indvik, Evelyne de Leeuw, Carlos Dora, Franz Gatzweiler, Elsa Holm, Deljana Iossifova, Francisco Obando, Jean Simos, at F100...

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Deljana Iossifova @deljana.bsky.social · Jan 29

New issue of @thejoa.bsky.social is out. Read our editorial: Tracing architecture through the entangled www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Tracing architecture through the entangled

Published in The Journal of Architecture (Vol. 29, No. 5-6, 2024)

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · Dec 13

🔔 Now accepting applications for the 2025 USF Seminar Series Awards! 📚✨
Submit your proposals before the deadline on 17th February 2025. Visit the USF website for more info!
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#USFSeminarSeriesAwards #UrbanStudies

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Deljana Iossifova @deljana.bsky.social · Dec 5

AzuKo (azuko.org) works to end housing poverty, provide safe water & sanitation, and support women to lead better lives. Please support them - until 10 December, your donation will be doubled! Only five days left, do good this holiday season 🙏https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a056900002TPXM5AAP

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · Dec 3

Thanks to all of our 1,000 new followers on BlueSky! 🦋 If you think that your network is interested in urban studies funding opportunities and scholarship, will you re-share this post and help us grow further? You can follow us at our verified BlueSky account here: @urbanstudiesfoundation.org 🌇

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Deljana Iossifova @deljana.bsky.social · Nov 27

🌟 Just out - Everyday practices of administrative ambiguation and the labour of de-ambiguation: Struggling for water infrastructure in Mumbai - new Urban Studies paper with Purva Dewoolkar, Sitaram Shelar, Ali Browne & Elsa Holm 🌟 Free access journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Everyday practices of administrative ambiguation and the labour of de-ambiguation: Struggling for water infrastructure in Mumbai - Purva Dewoolkar, Deljana Iossifova, Sitaram Shelar, Alison L Browne, ...

In this paper, we use the notion of administrative precarity to refer to the vulnerability and insecurity experienced by marginalised and disadvantaged groups a...

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Deljana Iossifova @deljana.bsky.social · Nov 27

China Water Network workshop Universities of Manchester & Melbourne: "Unsettling Water Politics? Digitalising Water in China and Beyond" on 3/12, 9am UK time, with guest speakers Qinghong Xu, Godfred Amankwaa, Caixia Man, Cecilia Alda Vidal, and Yuzong Chen. Zoooom: see QR code below 👇

Deljana Iossifova @deljana.bsky.social · Nov 27

If in Manchester, join Ziqiu Ren and others on 3/12 for the Informality and Visual Methods in Urban Research PhD Symposium! Innovative ideas and global perspectives on urban transformations with guest discussants Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer.
Register here: bit.ly/3B2Gkam

PhD Symposium: Informality and Visual Mehtods in Urban Research

Join us for a laid-back PhD Symposium exploring how visual methods can enhance urban research - it's gonna be informal and insightful!

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The Journal of Architecture @thejoa.bsky.social · Jun 1

We are hiring! ✨ We're looking for two motivated co-editors for The Journal of Architecture. Help us drive excellence in architectural research. Apply now via the link below.

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · Mar 1

#USFSeminarSeries: 'Youth On The Move' invites applications for "Doing Mobile Ethnography: Learning from the Other ‘Other’", an early-career scholars’ training Workshop in Urban Methodology. May 13-14th, Shanghai, 2024. Deadline March 15th. ow.ly/c0fK50QJSb3

Flyer with the Open Call by "Youth On The Move Performing Urban Space in the Global South" for "Doing Mobile Ethnography: Learning from the Other ‘Other’" an early-career scholars’ training Workshop in Urban Methodology. May 13-14th. Shanghai, 2024. (Credit: Youth on the move)

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Deljana Iossifova @deljana.bsky.social · Feb 26

New paper on assessing urban livability in Shanghai through an open source data-driven approach in @Nature_NPJ urban sustainability - open access www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Assessing urban livability in Shanghai through an open source data-driven approach - npj Urban Sustainability

npj Urban Sustainability - Assessing urban livability in Shanghai through an open source data-driven approach

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Deljana Iossifova @deljana.bsky.social · Jan 25

New open access paper with Cecilia Alda-Vidal,
Ali Browne and Mary Lawhon on sanitation configurations in #Lilongwe journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Deljana Iossifova @deljana.bsky.social · Dec 23

Open access paper with the brilliant Qi Liu from our research on changing socio-metabolic practices in urbanising China is out: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Socio-metabolic practices and heterogeneous sanitation infrastructures in urbanizing China - Qi Liu,...

The transformation of urban sanitation is critical to achieving sustainable development. However, recent research challenges the assumption that the networked s...

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The Journal of Architecture @thejoa.bsky.social · Dec 8

📢 Comfort in a castle: adaptation due to long-term residency in a historic monument - New paper by Mattias Legnér @uppsalauni

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The Journal of Architecture @thejoa.bsky.social · Dec 6

📢 Now online: Pastoral entrapment and the idyllic-carceral continuum - By Hanneke H. Stuit @UvA_Amsterdam

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The Journal of Architecture @thejoa.bsky.social · Dec 4

📢 Materialised power and transitioning modernity: the architecture of Beijing Hotel, 1917–1974 - New paper by Yinrui Xie @unilincoln

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