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Roberto Rocco

@roberto-rocco.bsky.social

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Associate Professor of Spatial Planning and Strategy @TUDelft, author, editor (and painter when time permits). #SpatialJustice #PublicGoods. #Publicness. Visit the Centre for the Just City https://just-city.org

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Roberto Rocco @roberto-rocco.bsky.social · Nov 23

Join our next Summer School, Planning and Design for the Just City, for a two-week immersion into Dutch spatial planning focusing on spatial justice. Join 100 students from all over the world summerschooltudelft.org

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · Nov 24

I love this.

A restaurant board sign that reads: “we are not all in the same boat. We are in the same storm. Some have yachts. Some have canoes. And some are drowning. Just be kind and help when you can.

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Roberto Rocco @roberto-rocco.bsky.social · Mar 31

What kind of academic do you want to be in the 21st century?

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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · Mar 26

Excellent piece by @ninaburleigh.bsky.social on Don Junior, who is wilier than he appears…

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The Age of Don Jr.

How the ultimate failson became an edgelord whisperer and bona fide power player.

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Roberto Rocco @roberto-rocco.bsky.social · Mar 13

📢 25 november komen we in actie tegen de bezuinigingen op onderwijs en onderzoek. Laat ook je stem horen voor toegankelijk onderwijs, tegen ontslagen en tegen de langstudeerboete. Teken de petitie een kom in actie! campagnes.degoedezaak.org/campaigns/st...

Stop de bezuinigingen op het hoger onderwijs!

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Roberto Rocco @roberto-rocco.bsky.social · Jan 13

I’m trying to subscribe with e-mail address from the Netherlands where I’m based but keep getting blocked. 🤔

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · Jan 13

“The startup’s tagline, ‘Not owned by anybody,’ is a pointed reference to billionaire Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos and other moguls who, in Rubin’s view, have ‘bent the knee’ to President-elect Donald Trump.”

Jen Rubin exits Washington Post, joins Norm Eisen to launch new outlet countering ‘authoritarian threat’ | CNN Business

Veteran opinion columnist Jennifer Rubin is becoming the latest in a long list of Washington Post figures to leave the troubled institution.

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Roberto Rocco @roberto-rocco.bsky.social · Jan 11

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This is not about Freedom of Speech

Friends! I want to wish everyone a wonderful 2025, despite everything. Our world seems to be coming to a reckoning, and I am really apprehensive about what’s to come, but this is the moment to be …

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Roberto Rocco @roberto-rocco.bsky.social · Dec 22

This is far too articulate to have been written by Trump. He wouldn’t be able to put so many words together in the correct order.

Roberto Rocco @roberto-rocco.bsky.social · Dec 21

Un abrazo Andrés! Felices fiestas!

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Stephen Shapiro @stephenshapiro.bsky.social · Dec 19

now do this everywhere
www.dw.com/en/belgrade-...

Belgrade to make public transport free from January 1 – DW – 12/19/2024

The Serbian capital is set to make public transport entirely free for people in a bid to ease traffic congestion and delays.

www.dw.com

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Roberto Rocco @roberto-rocco.bsky.social · Dec 10

So happy to finally receive copies of the book I edited with Gabriel Silvestre from @newcastleuni.bsky.social on Insurgent Planning Practice with chapters from contributors from all over the world! Thanks to the many scholars who contributed to this project! Published by @agendapub.bsky.social

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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · Dec 10

Which ideologies do Britons have a favourable view of?

Environmentalism: 64% favourable
Feminism: 56%
Liberalism: 41%
Socialism: 38%
Conservatism: 32%
Capitalism: 30%
Nationalism: 29%
Libertarianism: 24%
Populism: 13%
Communism: 10%
Anarchism: 8%
Fascism: 2%

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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · Dec 5

An All-Star roster of climate scientists cleared their throats recently and it was something to behold.

Their message to Net-Zero experts in every sector?
You're Doing It Wrong 🧪
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Scientists Behind ‘Net Zero’ Concept Say Nations Are Getting It Wrong

In a new study, high-profile climate scientists say countries are using flawed carbon accounting by relying too heavily on trees and oceans to absorb new carbon emissions.

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Roberto Rocco @roberto-rocco.bsky.social · Dec 6

Thank you so much!

Roberto Rocco @roberto-rocco.bsky.social · Dec 6

Read my new text on what Europeans get wrong about Informal Urbanisation robertorocco.com/2024/12/06/w...

What Europeans Get Wrong About Informal Urbanisation

Europeans often draw parallels between modern informal urbanisation in the Global South and the organic development of their own medieval and post-medieval cities. This comparison overlooks the cru…

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Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · Dec 4

"The ideal subject of the totalitarian ... (is) people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

-- Hannah Arendt, who died #OTD 1975

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TREC at PSU @trecpdx.bsky.social · Dec 2

Our comic, "Moving From Cars To People," shows & tells how the built environment in the US came to be designed for cars and what we can do about it.

Illustrated by Joaquin Golez and authored by Kelly Clifton & Kristi Currans, with Susan Kirtley & Ryan Alexander-Tanner: trec.pdx.edu/news/moving-...

Cover: Moving From Cars To People: A Comic About Transportation and Land Use

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Dec 2

This is really important.

The main thing that makes it hard to achieve nature and green integrated in cities isn’t density of buildings or density of people — it's density of cars. And the more well-designed density of people and buildings that you achieve, the fewer cars you’ll need or want.

Tree-lined street in Yaletown, Vancouver

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Roberto Rocco @roberto-rocco.bsky.social · Nov 29

The greatest victory of the far right was to convince the oppressed that their project is the people’s project, when in reality it’s the project of a plutocratic minority of billionaires.

Roberto Rocco @roberto-rocco.bsky.social · Nov 25

Thanks a lot for sharing!

Roberto Rocco @roberto-rocco.bsky.social · Nov 23

KAKISTOCRACY is a project to undermine democracy and demolish institutions, to create confusion and make civil society vulnerable to populism and manipulation.

Roberto Rocco @roberto-rocco.bsky.social · Nov 23

KAKISTOCRACY: a system of governance run by the least qualified, most corrupt, or least principled individuals. The term derives from the Greek kakistos (worst) and kratos (rule), highlighting the impact of incompetence and unethical leadership on societal well-being and democratic institutions.

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Roberto Rocco @roberto-rocco.bsky.social · Sep 5

Feeling super proud of my country right now.

Roberto Rocco @roberto-rocco.bsky.social · Sep 5

Hi, folks! It is with pleasure that I announce the next edition of the online workshop "A Manifesto for the Just City". The workshop is organised by the Centre for the Just City @TUDelft. You can register at just-city.org/portfolio/ma...
See you there!