Congratulations to @hannaruszczyk.bsky.social - her book ' #Gender and #Resilience in the City' is a Top Trending book for 2024!

The book considers who has power, who is kept invisible to whom, and who can create the city in their imagery. New forms of ‘we’ness are being created.

Maybe because middle class women of a certain age are in a position to call out this shit without fear of losing a salary they need. And can do it on behalf of young women starting out in their careers who are just as sick of this shit but can’t say anything because they need to earn a living.

Proud to have contributed to evidence to the publication of the House of Lords Report, ‘High Streets: Life Beyond Retail’: publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5901/ld...

My evidence highlighted the contentious dynamics around high street re-development made by multiple political actors!

Apropos of nothing, I wrote a piece last year for Monument Lab's first issue, on ghosts, about mourning twitter

wordsinspace.net/2024/08/05/e...

Field Notes: Repair

A new survey series in Places, prepared in the months leading up to the U.S. election, in which 100 scholars, designers, planners & activists share observations on practices of repair, reuse, preservation, maintenance and care.

Here's the first installment. Lots more to come.

Forensic Architecture show new maps demonstrating how ethnic cleansing is unfolding in northern Gaza via an intensification and acceleration of military tactics inc a new corridor aimed at enforcing large-scale displacement from the north.

gaza.forensic-architecture.org

1 of my favourite pieces of artwork arising from thinking and sharing about feminist futures, care, urban planning and leadership with @emmao.bsky.social

www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

From March 2020 until March 2022, I recorded near daily conversations with COVID experts from all walks of life and around the world. I hope you find something useful here. We're in a time of reckoning. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Very pleased to be partnering with @UNICEF on this initiative
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Hi Bluesky! Great to be on this platform! Looking forward to lots of great Hazard Risk and Resilience discussions! Please follow us for updates about IHRR at @durham-university.bsky.social

My book...
Gender and Resilience in the City: Infrastructures, aspirations and slow violence in Nepal is based on 7 years of research. It is about roads, social infrastructures, gender, "we", and citizenship to the city
practicalactionpublishing.com/book/2704/ge...

Hi Everyone,
this is me... I am interested in all things urban, gender, roads, humanitarianism, crises, resilience, "we"ness, infrastructures, art and creative methods