Giulio Verdini
@giulioverdini.bsky.social
Urbanist | PhD | Associate Professor in Urban Planning University of Westminster, London | Co-coordinator Global South & East TG Group AESOP | Planners 4 Climate Action | Academic Advisor Union for the Mediterranean
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Jews and Israel are not the same. Equating them is a propaganda technique | Norman Solomon
Jews and Israel are not the same. Equating them is a propaganda technique | Norman Solomon
The claim is central to rationales for arming Israel even as leading human rights groups decry genocide in Gaza
www.theguardian.com
September 16, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Jews and Israel are not the same. Equating them is a propaganda technique | Norman Solomon
UK-Brazil exchange on research and international cooperation in São Paulo 🇧🇷 part week. A great ESRC workshop to develop future collaborations with @luzne.bsky.social and colleagues from Caxias do Sul
September 16, 2025 at 7:31 AM
UK-Brazil exchange on research and international cooperation in São Paulo 🇧🇷 part week. A great ESRC workshop to develop future collaborations with @luzne.bsky.social and colleagues from Caxias do Sul
‘Get to know the realpolitik of cities and planning’… the final message of Anacláudia Rossbach @un-habitat to all students in a packed lecture theatre today in Paris, at the 2025 Urban School inaugural lecture at Sciencepo sciencespo.fr/fr/evenements/…
September 3, 2025 at 7:25 PM
‘Get to know the realpolitik of cities and planning’… the final message of Anacláudia Rossbach @un-habitat to all students in a packed lecture theatre today in Paris, at the 2025 Urban School inaugural lecture at Sciencepo sciencespo.fr/fr/evenements/…
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Breaking News: President Emmanuel Macron said France would recognize the state of Palestine, making it the first of the G7 nations to do so.
France Will Recognize Palestinian Statehood, Macron Says
The announcement sets France apart from the United States and most of its close allies, and could cause friction with President Trump.
trib.al
July 24, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Breaking News: President Emmanuel Macron said France would recognize the state of Palestine, making it the first of the G7 nations to do so.
It's been quite something to attend one of the sessions of the WHC @unesco.org 47 COM and witness the discussions on new World Heritage Site nominations.
July 15, 2025 at 10:54 AM
It's been quite something to attend one of the sessions of the WHC @unesco.org 47 COM and witness the discussions on new World Heritage Site nominations.
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Between 1970 and 1985, a typical American family could save 10% of their income for about five years and accumulate a 20% down payment on a median-priced existing single-family home, according to a New York Times analysis. As of 2023, it would take nearly eight years, the data shows. nyti.ms/3FKEzkx
June 12, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Between 1970 and 1985, a typical American family could save 10% of their income for about five years and accumulate a 20% down payment on a median-priced existing single-family home, according to a New York Times analysis. As of 2023, it would take nearly eight years, the data shows. nyti.ms/3FKEzkx
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"[D]evelopment finance is most needed where investors least want to go."
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The chimera of private finance for development
A fashionable idea has yet to fulfil its promises
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May 25, 2025 at 6:57 AM
"[D]evelopment finance is most needed where investors least want to go."
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It’s already one week ago but the workshop UOW-UIR in Rabat was successfully completed! Working on urban health and urban conservation to prevent further displacement and demolition!
May 18, 2025 at 7:38 AM
It’s already one week ago but the workshop UOW-UIR in Rabat was successfully completed! Working on urban health and urban conservation to prevent further displacement and demolition!
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My island of strangers: a poem | Michael Rosen
My island of strangers: a poem | Michael Rosen
The prime minister warns that immigration could turn Britain into an ‘island of strangers’. Author and poet Michael Rosen responds
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May 17, 2025 at 6:24 AM
My island of strangers: a poem | Michael Rosen
Foresight in Bahrain 🇧🇭 can we imagine a future based on alternative system of mobility in the Gulf? Signs of change but still a long way to go .. great to be back for the Prime Minister Fellowship Programme on Urban Sustainability
April 28, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Foresight in Bahrain 🇧🇭 can we imagine a future based on alternative system of mobility in the Gulf? Signs of change but still a long way to go .. great to be back for the Prime Minister Fellowship Programme on Urban Sustainability
About to finish the international conference for the post-earthquake of Kahramanmaraş in Turkey 🇹🇷 . Thanks to the scientific committee to give me the honour of the keynote on ‘Post-disaster Urban Futures and the role of Culture in Building Resilience’
April 16, 2025 at 5:25 PM
About to finish the international conference for the post-earthquake of Kahramanmaraş in Turkey 🇹🇷 . Thanks to the scientific committee to give me the honour of the keynote on ‘Post-disaster Urban Futures and the role of Culture in Building Resilience’
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“No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue,” Alan Garber, Harvard’s president, said about President Trump's demands. nyti.ms/4jzSS9W
April 14, 2025 at 8:46 PM
“No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue,” Alan Garber, Harvard’s president, said about President Trump's demands. nyti.ms/4jzSS9W
Voices from the Ground, a new public #webinar series on solutions and best practices for sustainable tourism development by UN Tourism! Glad to be Keynote speaker!
🗓 9 April 2025
📍 Heritage in Action: Innovating Cultural Preservation in Villages
unwto-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
🗓 9 April 2025
📍 Heritage in Action: Innovating Cultural Preservation in Villages
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: BTV by UN Tourism Network Village Talks: Voices from the Ground : Heritage in Action: Innovating Cultural Preservation in Villages. After registering, you w...
The conservation of cultural resources is essential to preserving local identity, safeguarding heritage, and ensuring long-term sustainability in villages. Well-preserved cultural assets—such as histo...
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March 31, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Voices from the Ground, a new public #webinar series on solutions and best practices for sustainable tourism development by UN Tourism! Glad to be Keynote speaker!
🗓 9 April 2025
📍 Heritage in Action: Innovating Cultural Preservation in Villages
unwto-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
🗓 9 April 2025
📍 Heritage in Action: Innovating Cultural Preservation in Villages
unwto-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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1/2. 📢 WEBINAR: “Fund for Responding to #LossAndDamage: What to Watch Out for and What Needs to Happen in 2025”
🗓️02 April 2025
⏰06:00 GMT / 15:00 GMT
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🗓️02 April 2025
⏰06:00 GMT / 15:00 GMT
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March 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
1/2. 📢 WEBINAR: “Fund for Responding to #LossAndDamage: What to Watch Out for and What Needs to Happen in 2025”
🗓️02 April 2025
⏰06:00 GMT / 15:00 GMT
📍Zoom
✏️Register for 06:00: :https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/AQCX7Aj7RDmPADCiwLTfWg
✏️Register for 15:00: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
🗓️02 April 2025
⏰06:00 GMT / 15:00 GMT
📍Zoom
✏️Register for 06:00: :https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/AQCX7Aj7RDmPADCiwLTfWg
✏️Register for 15:00: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Memories of last week at the Jaime Lerner Foundation with a group of enthusiastic people, glad to be supporting the newly launched chair in memory of the most influential planner of our time #jaimelerner. In Curitiba, 🇧🇷 with great women: Ariadne Daher and Ilana Lerner! 💕
March 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Memories of last week at the Jaime Lerner Foundation with a group of enthusiastic people, glad to be supporting the newly launched chair in memory of the most influential planner of our time #jaimelerner. In Curitiba, 🇧🇷 with great women: Ariadne Daher and Ilana Lerner! 💕
Last week we concluded a series of workshops in Caxias do Sul, 🇧🇷, funded by #ESRC on post-disaster preparation, exploring, with local gov, business, and communities, how to enhance collaboration and assess vulnerabilities. Pictures: anticipatory and participatory tools in action @luzne.bsky.social
March 21, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Last week we concluded a series of workshops in Caxias do Sul, 🇧🇷, funded by #ESRC on post-disaster preparation, exploring, with local gov, business, and communities, how to enhance collaboration and assess vulnerabilities. Pictures: anticipatory and participatory tools in action @luzne.bsky.social
Just arrived in Caxia do Sul, Brazil 🇧🇷 for the International Week on Resilience, looking forward to work with UCS, the local government and local communities on post disaster recovery after the devastating flooding of May 24, with @luzne.bsky.social 💫
March 8, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Just arrived in Caxia do Sul, Brazil 🇧🇷 for the International Week on Resilience, looking forward to work with UCS, the local government and local communities on post disaster recovery after the devastating flooding of May 24, with @luzne.bsky.social 💫
Now published open source💫:
‘advancing effective Global South climate urbanism requires reorienting planning education towards the historical specificity of places and their climate justice issues’
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
‘advancing effective Global South climate urbanism requires reorienting planning education towards the historical specificity of places and their climate justice issues’
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Localising and reimagining urban planning knowledge for effective Global South climate urbanism
This paper acknowledges the limitations of the current system of urban knowledge production concerning climate change and its applicability to the Global South. It explores whether climate urbanism...
www.tandfonline.com
March 7, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Now published open source💫:
‘advancing effective Global South climate urbanism requires reorienting planning education towards the historical specificity of places and their climate justice issues’
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
‘advancing effective Global South climate urbanism requires reorienting planning education towards the historical specificity of places and their climate justice issues’
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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NEW: What makes BLUESKY the new “IT” place for Urbanists? It’s pretty significant that the American Planning Association is putting this out there to its huge membership. I was interviewed for it, as was @mitchellsilver.bsky.social & others.
Please share!
@bsky.app www.planning.org/planning/202...
Please share!
@bsky.app www.planning.org/planning/202...
What Makes Bluesky the New ‘It’ Space for Urbanists
Planners are turning to the up-and-coming platform, as well as other social media, to expand their reach and increase community engagement.
www.planning.org
February 13, 2025 at 7:39 PM
NEW: What makes BLUESKY the new “IT” place for Urbanists? It’s pretty significant that the American Planning Association is putting this out there to its huge membership. I was interviewed for it, as was @mitchellsilver.bsky.social & others.
Please share!
@bsky.app www.planning.org/planning/202...
Please share!
@bsky.app www.planning.org/planning/202...
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The UK joined the US in not signing the international AI declaration pledging an open, inclusive and ethical approach to Artificial Intelligence. Earlier today @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social argued that this may seem to be in the UK's interest, but in fact it isn't.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
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Winners and Losers at the AI Action Summit – who does the UK stand with?
The vision of the Paris AI Action Summit is for an inclusive and sustainable AI. But the current AI champions based in the USA are pushing towards an acceleration of their global dominance. Rachel …
blogs.lse.ac.uk
February 11, 2025 at 2:47 PM
The UK joined the US in not signing the international AI declaration pledging an open, inclusive and ethical approach to Artificial Intelligence. Earlier today @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social argued that this may seem to be in the UK's interest, but in fact it isn't.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
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The UK Government has aligned with Trump and refused to sign the Paris AI Summit’s declaration.
It states that AI must be “open, inclusive, transparent, ethical, safe, secure and trustworthy, taking into account international frameworks for all” and “making AI sustainable for people and the planet”
It states that AI must be “open, inclusive, transparent, ethical, safe, secure and trustworthy, taking into account international frameworks for all” and “making AI sustainable for people and the planet”
February 11, 2025 at 11:50 AM
The UK Government has aligned with Trump and refused to sign the Paris AI Summit’s declaration.
It states that AI must be “open, inclusive, transparent, ethical, safe, secure and trustworthy, taking into account international frameworks for all” and “making AI sustainable for people and the planet”
It states that AI must be “open, inclusive, transparent, ethical, safe, secure and trustworthy, taking into account international frameworks for all” and “making AI sustainable for people and the planet”
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Town Planning Review Volume 96.1 includes reviews of the latest #urbanplanning publications, with contributions from @marccollinson.bsky.social, @lorettaclees.bsky.social, and @giulioverdini.bsky.social
Online at: bit.ly/TPR-96-1
@markscott-ucd.bsky.social
Online at: bit.ly/TPR-96-1
@markscott-ucd.bsky.social
February 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Town Planning Review Volume 96.1 includes reviews of the latest #urbanplanning publications, with contributions from @marccollinson.bsky.social, @lorettaclees.bsky.social, and @giulioverdini.bsky.social
Online at: bit.ly/TPR-96-1
@markscott-ucd.bsky.social
Online at: bit.ly/TPR-96-1
@markscott-ucd.bsky.social
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“There is no escaping our moral obligations as a wise leader and good neighbor in the interdependent community of free nations—our economic obligations—and our political obligations as the single largest counter to the adversaries of freedom,” -- John F. Kennedy
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newrepublic.com/article/1910...
The Death of USAID: These People Are out of Their Freaking Minds
The world’s richest man and its most powerful one have killed the one government agency that does the most to support the world’s most vulnerable people. There will be consequences.
newrepublic.com
February 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
“There is no escaping our moral obligations as a wise leader and good neighbor in the interdependent community of free nations—our economic obligations—and our political obligations as the single largest counter to the adversaries of freedom,” -- John F. Kennedy
newrepublic.com/article/1910...
newrepublic.com/article/1910...
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Positive vision from the UK Chancellor on growth prospects. But to create "Europe's Silicon Valley" we need to understand what made SV successful in the first place. It was not just reducing barriers but decades of strategic, decentralised and entrepreneurial public investments. 1/13
January 29, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Positive vision from the UK Chancellor on growth prospects. But to create "Europe's Silicon Valley" we need to understand what made SV successful in the first place. It was not just reducing barriers but decades of strategic, decentralised and entrepreneurial public investments. 1/13
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"Before he died on Dec 29, Carter would go on to work on more than 4,000 homes in 14 countries. His backing helped transform Habitat for Humanity into a household name. Over the decades it has helped 62 million people build or renovate their homes...."
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Tue, 01/07/25
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January 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
"Before he died on Dec 29, Carter would go on to work on more than 4,000 homes in 14 countries. His backing helped transform Habitat for Humanity into a household name. Over the decades it has helped 62 million people build or renovate their homes...."
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