Lecture 3 of Urban Riches, with Katie Higgins, 18 June at 4pm. Details in the attached image, cutting-edge global study from one of the core urban riches team, please share. We hope to circulate a live link in due course.

Even the cards can be against you...

How to profit from war.

Preparing for final urban theory class today, fortified with Yorkshire, tea, cardamom bun from Sheffield station and guide to a better world. It can only go downhill from here.

Engine of our times- Mayfair gallery's exhibition of Grayson Perry about 6 years ago.

The world is turning upside down with the Telegraph's investigation into Musk's fund of Reform to tune of £100m. Work of the vengeful child rich.

Not dark money, but fully operating in the light.

Not a subtle image perhaps, but this was the original concept art for Alpha City.

Alpha City - paperback editions, available at Verso and at Nanjing University Press.

Verso - tinyurl.com/45fs2pjf
Nanjing - book.douban.com/subject/3698...

London, West to East, 1951, a view that probably only started to substantially change 40 - 50 years later.

Cats on boats must wear floats.

East London, from my phot archive. Hope he's still ok!

Andreas Gursky's images are a great resource for teachers looking to highlight the relationship between cities and their wider natural settings.

I have been writing a piece about the carbon claw print of the hungry elite mobility fleets, summary table sets out the comparisons.

For many the reaction will be one of outrage, or you can choose the superficially more complex option of - 'but air travel is only 2.5% of global emissions'.