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Colin McFarlane @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social · Sep 5

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.bsky.social

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INFRASTRUCTURAL EXTENSIONS: Rethinking Infrastructure in Urban Studies

This essay explores how contemporary urban infrastructure is being conceptually and operationally extended into new domains. Across five key arenas—elemental, care, more-than-human, cyber-physical an...

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Jean-Paul Addie @jpaddie.bsky.social · Sep 5

Check out this collection - a great opportunity to dig into the @uaanews.bsky.social archives and explore how scholars from a variety of disciplinary and geographic vantage points have engaged with the right to the city

Urban Affairs Association (UAA) @uaanews.bsky.social · Sep 5

📣 📚 👉 The Right to the City: a special collection of articles from Journal of Urban Affairs + Journal of Race, Ethnicity & the City www.tandfonline.com/journals/uju...

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Jean-Paul Addie @jpaddie.bsky.social · Aug 15

...and you can read a curated selection of key articles from Mark Purcell, Yasminah Beebeejaun, Sukari Ivester, Maureen Donaghy, Julie Chamberlain, Stephen Danley and more in this new Journal of Urban Affairs Special Article Collection: www.tandfonline.com/journals/uju...

The Right to the City: Prospects and Provocations from the Journals of the Urban Affairs Association

Explore the article collection: The Right to the City: Prospects and Provocations from the Journals of the Urban Affairs Association. Published in Journal of Urban Affairs.

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Jean-Paul Addie @jpaddie.bsky.social · Aug 15

How have the @uaanews.bsky.social's Journal of Urban Affairs and Journal of Race, Ethnicity and the City debated and advanced the #RightToTheCity? Find out in my editorial review: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The right to the city: Prospects and provocations from the journals of the Urban Affairs Association

The “right to the city” is a powerful political slogan with intuitive emotional appeal. Originating from the writing of Henri Lefebvre, the concept has gained both remarkable traction and profound ...

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Jean-Paul Addie @jpaddie.bsky.social · Aug 8

The political, institutional, and technological limits of infrastructural regionalism on Europe's high-speed rail network: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Timetables, tricky tickets and high prices: the problems with European cross-border rail travel

For all the fanfare over new routes, fast and efficient rail services between major cities remain a rarity

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Jean-Paul Addie @jpaddie.bsky.social · Jul 13

Cocktail time in the cubicles! www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Turn empty London office blocks into ‘late-night party zones’, report suggests

Creative studio says financial districts deserted in working-from-home shift could host revitalised nightlife sector

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Jean-Paul Addie @jpaddie.bsky.social · Jun 24

"Sometimes big infrastructure is necessary, but at all times it is a threat to democracy. This is why governments should approach it with caution and scepticism. Instead, they act as hucksters for corporate boondoggles."

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Overblown infrastructure projects damage lives and imperil democracy. Why is Britain addicted to them? | George Monbiot

The Lower Thames Crossing proves the point. It’s a white elephant plan, sucking money from local projects that could actually improve lives, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Jean-Paul Addie @jpaddie.bsky.social · Jun 18

Pleased to see Infrastructural Times on the bookshelf, especially w/chapters by @jessicadicarlo.bsky.social @xazaaradjame.bsky.social, and Schindler & Kanai exploring temporalities connected to the BRI and Chinese-led global infrastructure development.

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Jean-Paul Addie @jpaddie.bsky.social · Jun 3

@mrglassphd.bsky.social and I have reflected on comparable reverberations from bridge failure in Pittsburgh and the temporal dynamics of infrastructure crises and infrastructure-based futuring here:
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Jean-Paul Addie @jpaddie.bsky.social · Jun 3

The politics & temporalities of infrastructure collapse/repair: Don't rush into fixing Germany “because that would fuel inflation but not produce real value or better bridges... analyse where the investment... [& don't] promise more than it’s possible to deliver”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

‘Rust in peace’: why are Germany’s bridges and schools falling apart?

Bridge collapses caused by underinvestment are being seized on by the far right as evidence of ‘state failure’

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Paul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social · May 30

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End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University

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Jean-Paul Addie @jpaddie.bsky.social · May 29

Something of a primer for "Extended Mobility and the City as a Commons" by Lucia Capanema and Romulo Orrico - forthcoming in the @uaanews.bsky.social Rights to the City book series:
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

‘Avenue of Death’: the Rio motorway where stray bullets, botched raids and resilience collide

Brazil Avenue was meant to symbolise progress – today it tells the story of a city at war with itself

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Jen Nelles @jen-nelles.bsky.social · May 21

Check out my reflections on NOIR's session on infrastructural regionalism and inclusion at the @regstud.bsky.social annual meeting this month.

cc @mrglassphd.bsky.social @jpaddie.bsky.social

www.noir-rsa.com/post/inclusi...

Inclusive innovation and the dynamics of regional transformation: Reflections on NOIR’s contribution to RSA 2025

Jen Nelles (Oxford Brookes University)NOIR had a strong presence at RSA 2025, organizing a session on “Inclusive innovation and the dynamics of regional transformation” (SS23), organized by NOIR co-di...

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Jen Nelles @jen-nelles.bsky.social · May 7

So much fun today @regstud.bsky.social 2025 co-chairing a NOIR session on infrastructural regionalism and inclusion with @mrglassphd.bsky.social featuring some excellent presentations on innovation districts, Auckland, and freight rail in Brazil.

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The City Institute @cityinstitute.bsky.social · May 3

This spring marks a turning point for us at @yorkuniversity.bsky.social as @rkeil.bsky.social and Linda Peake retire after 30+ yrs shaping critical urban scholarship.
To honour them, we’re launching 2 endowment funds for early scholars💥. If you've been inspired by them: www.yorku.ca/cityinstitut...

Honouring the work of Roger and Linda - The City Institute at York University (CITY)

Dear all, This spring marks a significant moment for the CITY Institute at York University and for critical urban scholarship. Professors Roger Keil and Linda Peake, two long term forces behind CIT...

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Jean-Paul Addie @jpaddie.bsky.social · Apr 7

Infrastructure out of time www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

‘Polluting’ Silvertown tunnel is already out of date despite just opening, say campaigners

Victoria Rance says the ‘1970s technology’ will cause pollution that will damage health for decades, but London mayor and TfL claim it will reduce congestion

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Jean-Paul Addie @jpaddie.bsky.social · Mar 19

Suburbia as sprawl, apotheosis of neoliberal society&space: "The aesthetic of Trumpism is sprawl–which had already infected the [US] long before the Maga movement ... Perhaps there is something authentic to suburban sprawl... But as everyday life [it's] deadening" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What does Maga-land look like? Let me show you America's unbeautiful suburban sprawl | Alexander Hurst

I drove 2,000 miles with a French friend across my home country – and saw the endless nowhere land that is the crucible of Trumpism, says Guardian Europe correspondent Alexander Hurst

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Jean-Paul Addie @jpaddie.bsky.social · Feb 27

Thanks @fennaimara.bsky.social for the very generous review of Infrastructural Times in Space and Polity!

Paperback version coming soon from @brisunipress.bsky.social: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/infrastructu...

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Fenna Imara Hoefsloot @fennaimara.bsky.social · Feb 26

Delighted to see my review of @jpaddie.bsky.social @mrglassphd.bsky.social & @jen-nelles.bsky.social excellent 'Infrastructural Times: Temporality and the making of global urban worlds' out. Empirically specific and theoretically expansive, this book deserves to be read! doi.org/10.1080/1356...

Infrastructural times: Temporality and the making of global urban worlds

Published in Space and Polity (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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Matt Huber @matthuber.bsky.social · Jan 20

Today is bleak, but (via Engels) socialist politics means we (still) live in a rare era of world-historic possibility to abolish poverty & deliver freedom to all. MLK asserted similar w/, "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” Let's keep fighting.

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Jean-Paul Addie @jpaddie.bsky.social · Jan 14

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Tokyo drift: what happens when a city stops being the future?

Tokyo remains, in the world’s imagination, a place of sophistication and wealth. But with economic revival forever distant, ‘tourism pollution’ seems the only viable plan

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Jean-Paul Addie @jpaddie.bsky.social · Jan 13

"State as Auteur" is an incisive, provocative paper. I had the exciting opportunity to engage @ayonadatta.bsky.social and @fennaimara.bsky.social's argument in @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social and my commentary, "Time and the State in Digital Society", is out now:
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Jean-Paul Addie @jpaddie.bsky.social · Dec 23

What a treat from @urbanpolitical.bsky.social Santa!

I had a great conversation about #IntfrastructuralTimes w/ @fennaimara.bsky.social, Himnashu Burte & Hanna Baumann: lots of insights & food for thought.

Check out the podcast & the book, too! @mrglassphd.bsky.social @jen-nelles.bsky.social

Urban Political Podcast @urbanpolitical.bsky.social · Dec 23

We have a little Christmas present:

'82 – Book Review Roundtable: Infrastructural Times: Temporality and the Making of Global Urban World' is out!

urbanpolitical.online/episode-82-b...

Thank you all for listening to the Urban Political Podcast this year and Happy Holidays!

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Dialogues on Digital Society @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social · Dec 12

New - if not first - article in Dialogues on Digital Society: "State as Auteur" by @ayonadatta.bsky.social and @fennaimara.bsky.social exploring timing - the synchronising of disparate events - as a mechanism of state craft in Kenya's digital transformations. doi.org/10.1177/2976...

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Atlanta Studies @atlstudies.bsky.social · Dec 9

We are pleased to announce the 12th Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium, to be held May 2nd, 2025 at Morehouse College!

See the link below for more info on our call for proposals, which are due January 24th!

atlantastudies.org/2024/12/09/c...

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