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Crisis and the urban imagination - Colin McFarlane, 2025

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Colin McFarlane @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social · 12h

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/10.1177/...

What are ideas like ‘polycrisis’ doing to how we think and research the urban? How might we ensure that discourses and conditions of polycrises do not erode our...

Experts from three major cities gather to tackle homelessness

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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 15h

Great to see international municipal support for changing the narrative & concrete actions to improve situations. Thanks to Sotiria Kyriakidou for all her work on this, + Ellie Atkins, Isabel Lacalle, Marios Atzemis, Colin Morison, and Camila Rameriez for their participation @cperguom.bsky.social

Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 15h

A goal of the #UKRI Urban Crisis project is to shift conversations on health inequalities & poverty to see it as a whole person / whole systems issue. So it was such a privilege for our team to co-organise a policy exchange with the Municipality of Athens. www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/e...

Local governments from three major cities in Europe and Latin America gathered in Athens last week for a three-day policy exchange tackling one of the most pressing urban challenges of our time: homel...

www.manchester.ac.uk

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Sarah Klosterkamp @sklosterkamp.bsky.social · 7d

📢 CFP | AAG 2026, San Francisco
Crisis between the Ordinary and Eventful: Housing, Material Conditions, and Everyday Urbanism

In many cities, crisis isn’t rupture—it’s everyday life.
Evictions, debt, precarity, housing struggles.
But also repair, care, solidarity.

@geographers.bsky.social #geosky

Schwarzer Hintergrund mit weißem Text: „Call for Papers – AAG 2026, San Francisco. Crisis between the Ordinary and Eventful: Housing, Material Conditions, and Everyday Urbanism. Deadline: October 20, 2025.“ With email addresses from both organizers: klosterkamp@geo.uni-frankfurt.de & cristina.temenos@manchester.ac.uk

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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 10d

Lots of great urbanists here!

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 12d

NEW STARTER PACK! This time I’m hoping to encourage and support global urbanists from OUTSIDE North America here on Bluesky, so hopefully this will help! Who’ve I missed? Just joined? Let me know! I’ll keep updating, so please keep checking & sharing this pack! And let’s try using #GlobalUrbanists.

Urbanists OUTSIDE North America Worth Following!

Join the conversation

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Thomas van Laake @tvlaake.bsky.social · 8d

Capping off 4 years of work in 2 hours is always a challenge, but I thoroughly enjoyed discussing my thesis with Paola Jirón and @natemillington.bsky.social today.

Many thanks to all those who made this research project possible - supervisors, interlocutors, and interviewees!

Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 8d

Proud supervisor alert! Congratulations Dr. @tvlaake.bsky.social who defended his thesis: Between processes and instances: comparing the intra-urban differentiation of cycling policy & infrastructure provision in Greater Manchester, Mexico City, and Toronto.

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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 8d

@wardykg.bsky.social & I thank examiners Paola Jirón, @natemillington.bsky.social & chair @jamiedoucette.bsky.social His thesis is a comparison of cycling policy across 3 cities, highlighting the politics and policy mobiliy of cycling policies, mobility justice & infrastructural reconfigurations

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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 8d

Proud supervisor alert! Congratulations Dr. @tvlaake.bsky.social who defended his thesis: Between processes and instances: comparing the intra-urban differentiation of cycling policy & infrastructure provision in Greater Manchester, Mexico City, and Toronto.

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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 8d

The news out of Manchester today fills me with profound sadness. I have no doubt that the city will pull together, it always does. Thinking of those senselessly murdered and their loved ones.

Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 8d

What happened today in Manchester is horrific, and my thoughts are with everyone marking Yom Kippur. There are going to be tough days ahead I suspect as we learn more about what happened, and I really hope the city can pull together through them

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...

Two dead after suspected terror attack on Manchester synagogue, police say, with suspect shot by officers – latest

Keir Starmer to chair Cobra meeting as he condemns ‘appalling’ attack on synagogue during Yom Kippur

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 9d

Excited for our new edited (and OPEN ACCESS) book released on Nov 20th

"The Material Geographies of the Belt and Road Initiative: Infrastructures and Political Ecologies on the New Silk Road"

with Elia Apostolopoulou, Han Cheng and Alan Wiig

bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-material...

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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 14d

A fantastic crowd today for our joint event with the city of Athens on homelessness outreach policy across Manchester, Athens and Santiago. The public event wraps up three days of knowledge exchange between our teams in the three metro areas stemming from the #UKRI urban crisis project.

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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 10d

This Progress Report on Mobilities I: Crisis now has a home in Volume 49 Issue 5. #OpenAccess and alongside some excellent contributions all addressing crisis in its many forms @proghumgeog.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/toc/PHG/curr...

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Labour’s plan to revitalise high streets is good - now it has to make sure people hear about it | Morgan Jones

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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 12d

‘The theory of change here is based on ideas about political trust, understanding Reform as a manifestation of anti-politics.’ Still lots of questions on how to protect community assets once local authorities buy them & msy need to sell on due to wider debt. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

There have been hyped policies before about local funding, but unlike ‘levelling up’ this project could lead to actual change, says Morgan Jones

Urbanists OUTSIDE North America Worth Following!

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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 10d

Lots of great urbanists here!

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 12d

NEW STARTER PACK! This time I’m hoping to encourage and support global urbanists from OUTSIDE North America here on Bluesky, so hopefully this will help! Who’ve I missed? Just joined? Let me know! I’ll keep updating, so please keep checking & sharing this pack! And let’s try using #GlobalUrbanists.

Join the conversation

go.bsky.app

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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 10d

This Progress Report on Mobilities I: Crisis now has a home in Volume 49 Issue 5. #OpenAccess and alongside some excellent contributions all addressing crisis in its many forms @proghumgeog.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/toc/PHG/curr...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

Labour’s plan to revitalise high streets is good - now it has to make sure people hear about it | Morgan Jones

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John Paddington @padders123.bsky.social · 11d

Agree the plan is good, but council ownership is not going to work where most councils have serious financial challenges.

Here in Birmingham, the council is selling off most of it's property portfolio.

Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 12d

‘The theory of change here is based on ideas about political trust, understanding Reform as a manifestation of anti-politics.’ Still lots of questions on how to protect community assets once local authorities buy them & msy need to sell on due to wider debt. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

There have been hyped policies before about local funding, but unlike ‘levelling up’ this project could lead to actual change, says Morgan Jones

Labour’s plan to revitalise high streets is good - now it has to make sure people hear about it | Morgan Jones

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Hugh Barnard @hughbarnard.bsky.social · 12d

“Nothing destroys political trust like money that comes and goes,” says Caitlin Prowle,

See also my comments on 'grant funding', a smaller but invidious version of the same problem. Designed to make potential cooperators fight like rats in a sack too.

Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 12d

‘The theory of change here is based on ideas about political trust, understanding Reform as a manifestation of anti-politics.’ Still lots of questions on how to protect community assets once local authorities buy them & msy need to sell on due to wider debt. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

There have been hyped policies before about local funding, but unlike ‘levelling up’ this project could lead to actual change, says Morgan Jones

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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 12d

Yes, was discussing this over the past few days, as it's the same issues across municipal services in Athens, Santiago and Manchester. Global problem, simple solution...

Labour’s plan to revitalise high streets is good - now it has to make sure people hear about it | Morgan Jones

Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 12d

‘The theory of change here is based on ideas about political trust, understanding Reform as a manifestation of anti-politics.’ Still lots of questions on how to protect community assets once local authorities buy them & msy need to sell on due to wider debt. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

There have been hyped policies before about local funding, but unlike ‘levelling up’ this project could lead to actual change, says Morgan Jones

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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 12d

Marit and I wrote a book chapter on this back in 2010! Can’t believe it’s still not built!

Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 14d

A special thanks to those who travelled from Manchester and Santiago and to project RA/PGR Sotiria Kyriakidou for all her work in putting this together. More details to come but for now we’ll take a well earned rest!

Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 14d

A fantastic crowd today for our joint event with the city of Athens on homelessness outreach policy across Manchester, Athens and Santiago. The public event wraps up three days of knowledge exchange between our teams in the three metro areas stemming from the #UKRI urban crisis project.

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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 14d

Today!

Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 22d

In Athens 26th Sept? Join us for a workshop on Best Practices for Addressing Homelessness Outreach Across Athens, Greece, Manchester U.K., & Santiago, Chile. English translation provided. The event is part of our UKRI Urban Crisis Project and co-sponsored with the Municipality of Athens.