Logan Circle, Washington DC on a Sunday morning.

Today's economic development interviews took me to Washington County, PA...locus of the Whiskey Rebellion, Pittsburgh's southern exurbs, and sitting atop the Marcellus Shale gas field.

My summer reading list (recreational)

Starting at 1pm today, the @pittsociology.bsky.social 'Technically Urban' workshop engages with the linkages between cities and technology

Grateful to the @pittsociology.bsky.social department for hosting my work in progress book symposium today... thanks also to the generous discussants for their engagement.

BookBot at the North Carolina State University library. Efficient storage and retrieval, but so much for accidentally discovering a book in the stacks!

Three great @regstud.bsky.social research network sessions at the Detroit @geographers.bsky.social meeting yesterday, brought to you by the Network on Infrastructural Regionalism (NOIR). Thanks to all who participated.

Starting now: the first of the sessions on Infrastructural Regionalism at @geographers.bsky.social - sponsored by the @regstud.bsky.social research network NOIR (Network on Infrastructural Regionalism) #Detroit2025

There are publishing options at all career stages, and for all flavors of regional research through @regstud.bsky.social

Meetthe editors this morning at @geographers.bsky.social

Clairton, PA. Worker's diner adjacent to the notorious polluting US Steel coke works.

Honored to accept this charming Climate Honors Award from Second Nature on behalf of the team (students, staff, faculty) at the University of Pittsburgh working on community development in partnership with the Fayette County Cultural Trust.

@pittsociology.bsky.social

I was fortunate to get a tour of the Ruhr Region's preservation and adaptive reuse of their industrial heritage. It's a different model to Pittsburgh's, where some industrial artefacts were preserved, yet only in a fragmentary fashion.

Flights from D.C. to Boston on a clear day are an excellent opportunity to consider Megalopolis (Gottman, not Coppola).

Colombia study tour on inclusive innovation continues with meetings today at Ruta N and EAFIT. How is Medellín's innovation landscape continuing to evolve, and how will the benefits be shared?

Remaking Cities students learning about redevelopment at Pittsburgh's Hazelwood Green site... massive investments coming to this neighborhood, and a posting need to consider inclusive growth.

Hard to know what to do as my first post here, so I'll settle for a picture from yesterday's walk in Joensuu, Finland.