Urban political geography & critical urbanism #1
The first edition of a starter pack on all things critical urban geography, broadly defined. Continued here: https://bsky.app/starter-pack/mattthompson.bsky.social/3ldgwqddunh2m
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@mattthompson.bsky.social
@alexnurse.bsky.social
Reader in Urban Planning at the University of Liverpool. Researching: Cycling, Urban Governance, Cities and City-Regions. Likes are usually bookmarks (or it might mean I like it!)
@msafri.bsky.social
Maliha Safri. Professor of political economy, I'm living in NYC, inside the belly of the global capitalist beast. Interested in all things related to counter-mapping. Working on economies based in solidarity. (she/her).
@pillmad.bsky.social
Cities and neighbourhoods and governance and public policy Geography & Planning, University of Sheffield
@alistairsisson.bsky.social
cities & housing • Gadigal/Wangal land • he/him https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/persons/alistair-sisson
@clararuestchmann.bsky.social
Anthropologue • Laboratoire d'anthropologie politique (EHESS) & ATER à Paris 8 🔍 Anthropologie du travail et des techniques, de l’art et de l’urbain 🏗 Œuvres d'art contemporain pérennes 🚇 Grand Paris, architecture et chantiers 📷 Ethnographie visuelle
@timwhite100.bsky.social
Social scientist studying housing, land, property and power. Free University of Berlin / London School of Economics
@eliapos.bsky.social
Human geographer & political ecologist Imperial College London @ic-cep.bsky.social Editor Dialogues in Human Geography @dialogueshg.bsky.social
@jmacleavy.bsky.social
Economic Geographer at University of Bristol; co-Editor-in-Chief Geoforum. Research interests: Work; Welfare; Care; Austerity; Gender; Class; Neoliberalism; Inequality.
@multipliciudad.bsky.social
Urban theory & history in times of crisis | Professor @upm.es | author: Against the Commons: A Radical History of Urban Planning (U Minnesota Press) / Contra lo común: Una historia radical del urbanismo (Alianza) multipliciudades.org
@theurbaninstitute.bsky.social
University of Sheffield | A research centre investigating urban life + urbanisation. https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/urban-institute Part of #SheffieldUrbanism (Photo: Andre Be/@unsplash)
@itsbethperry.bsky.social
Director @theurbaninstitute.bsky.social, Uni/Sheffield. Research on urban epistemics, participatory governance, co-production & spatial in/justice (with a food/culture slant). Want more? www.sheffield.ac.uk/urban-institute & Linked-In /sheffield-urbanism
@jordantcamp.bsky.social
Jordan T. Camp is Assoc. Prof. of American Studies at Trinity College, author of Incarcerating the Crisis, co-editor of Policing the Planet, and co-host of the Conjuncture podcast and web series: trinitysocialjustice.com/conjuncture-podcast/. Posts my own.
@geoplace.bsky.social
Professor at the Oxford Internet Institute Director of @towardsfairwork.bsky.social Publications: www.markgraham.space Studies: Digital Economies, Digital Geographies, Economic Geography, Gig Economy, Data Work, AI Production Networks, Cities
@maedhbhlikedave.bsky.social
Lecturer in Geography, University College Cork | Interested in urban and digital geographies | Currently thinking about real estate, finance, and resistance...
@morton.bsky.social
Co-editor of Progress in Political Economy (PPE) https://www.ppesydney.net/ | Professor of Political Economy | University of Sydney | Own Views | Reposts ≠ endorsements |
@ppesydney.bsky.social
ppesydney.net. Political economic research, commentary and events. Blog and book series. Co-editors: @morton.bsky.social and @garethbryant.bsky.social
@proghumgeog.bsky.social
Progress in Human Geography is the peer-review journal of choice for those wanting to know about the state of the art in all areas of human geography research Website: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/phg
@areajournal.bsky.social
Area publishes concise papers and commentaries that shape key debates within and beyond the discipline of geography. Area is especially welcoming of work by early career researchers & awards an annual ECR prize.
@clairemercer.bsky.social
Professor of Human Geography, LSE, UK. Research on urban peripheries, housing and social class. Africa, Tanzania, Dar es Salaam.
@idalinabaptista.bsky.social
A wee political junkie researching various things urban / energy / infrastructures / governance. Also, Associate Professor at the University of Oxford. Views my own, not anyone else’s
@buoncities.bsky.social
🏙️🚶🚋🚎🚲 Interdisciplinary Center for Urban Research & Learning @bostonu.bsky.social. Work in, on, and with cities locally to globally. Led by Director @lorettaclees.bsky.social. 🔗 https://www.bu.edu/ioc/
@cityinstitute.bsky.social
We study cities and everything urban. Established in 2006 at #YorkUniversity in Toronto, our mission is to facilitate and mobilize interdisciplinary, critical and collaborative urban research.
@codyhochstenbach.bsky.social
Urban geographer (University of Amsterdam) | Housing | Author (Das Mag) | Co-director Amsterdam Centre for Inequality Studies (AMCIS) | Editor International Journal of Housing Policy, Beleid & Maatschappij | All links: https://linktr.ee/codyhochstenbach
@wvangent.bsky.social
Geograaf/ Geographer, Universiteit van Amsterdam Cities / Housing / Politics / Segregation / Gentrification / Pop Culture
@briandoucet.bsky.social
Planning Prof at the University of Waterloo studying housing, displacement, transportation & how they are related. Also cycling, curling, baseball & photography I was born in Toronto, now live in Kitchener & have lived in Scotland & the Netherlands he/him
@cunyslu.bsky.social
The CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies (SLU) offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs in Labor Studies and Urban Studies: slu.cuny.edu
@curdsnewcastle.bsky.social
Based at Newcastle University, UK. Producing academically rigorous and policy relevant research in urban and regional change and development since 1977. Only follow accounts with a bio. https://www.ncl.ac.uk/curds/
@urbanhistory.bsky.social
Urban History features articles covering social, economic, political and cultural aspects of the history of towns and cities. We're worldwide in scope. 🔗 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/urban-history
@openspaceou.bsky.social
Situated within Geography & Environmental Studies at the Open University, OpenSpace Research Centre is committed to thinking spatially in turbulent times. Posts by @colinlorne.bsky.social https://www5.open.ac.uk/centres/openspace
@t-a-gillespie.bsky.social
Urban geographer | he/him | views my own, repost ≠ endorsement
@davidjmadden.bsky.social
Sociologist at LSE studying cities, housing, and social theory. Co-author, In Defense of Housing.
@ubisurv.net
David Murakami Wood (DMW) Canada Research Chair in Critical Surveillance & Security Studies Director, CSS/Lab, uOttawa Co-editor-in-Chief, Surveillance & Society Surveillance / Security / Cities / Technology / Human Rights / Environment https://ubisurv.net
@xazaaradjame.bsky.social
Urbanist of the majority world; Collaborator in experiments on black urbanism and popular economy. Candomble sufi. The Urban Institute, University of Sheffield
@urbanhistorya.bsky.social
If you're into cities and their histories, then you're into the Urban History Association!
@philipphorn.bsky.social
Urbanist focusing on indigeneity, informality & youth futures in Latin America based at the School of Geography and Planning, University of Sheffield. More here: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/geography-planning/people/academic-research/philipp-horn
@miguel-martinez.bsky.social
Sociologist. On cities, housing and struggles for social justice. From Spain, based in Sweden (Uppsala Univ.). Author of "Squatters in the Capitalist City" (Routledge) and editor of "Research Handbook on Urban Sociology" (EE). www.miguelangelmartinez.net
@kentoncard.bsky.social
Rental housing policy & anti-displacement planning tools. Postdoc CURA University of Minnesota & @buoncities.bsky.social https://www.kentoncard.com/
@lorettaclees.bsky.social
Director Boston University Initiative on Cities. Urbanist, Geographer, Scholar-Activist, Mum. Lives Boston USA and London UK.
@jlcidell.bsky.social
Geographer, quilter, runner, writer, teacher, researcher, Cubs fan, transportation geek, she/her
@martindanyluk.bsky.social
Assistant professor, Concordia University. Baker of mediocre bread. I study cities, infrastructure, housing, supply chains, inequality. He/him.
@mattiasdebacker.bsky.social
Research professor and researcher VUB Spatial and Urban Criminology. Editor @crimencounters Father of two. And musician in the Belgian postpunk band KORINTHIANS https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3434-4800
@kavitaurbanist.bsky.social
Unruly geographer at the University of East Anglia. Eviction, resettlement, informality and migration. Currently thinking about embodied experiences of extreme heat.
@erverd.bsky.social
géographe, chercheur et enseignant à Sciences Po, Paris et au CERI #Liban #moyen_orient #ville #urbanisme #énergie
@mitede.bsky.social
Researcher, Faculty of Law, University of Turku, Finland. Docent geography. Westminster Law & Theory Lab Fellow. Affect-Posthumanism-Spatial Justice-Data Justice-Critical Urban Studies. PI of project JuDiCe: https://www.utu.fi/judice
@dialogueshg.bsky.social
Dialogues in Human Geography is a peer-reviewed journal that aims to stimulate open and critical debate on key issues of geographical thought and praxis.
@tibg.bsky.social
Transactions is a geography journal which publishes high-quality papers and interventions that make a substantial theoretical or empirical contribution to the discipline. Edited by Beth Greenhough, @benandersongeog.bsky.social & @kbrickell.bsky.social.
@monaharb.bsky.social
Professor of Urban Studies & Politics, American University of Beirut Co-Director, Beirut Urban Lab
@ayonadatta.bsky.social
Prof of Human Geography, FAcSS, University College London, UK PI: ERC Adv Grant https://www.regionalfutures.org Researching #digitalisation #urbanisation #futures #globalsouth Editor: urbangeography.bsky.social Web: https://ayonadatta.com
@goodfellowtom.bsky.social
Prof of Urban Studies and International Development @Sheffield uni. Cities, politics & political economy, migration & mobility, land, infrastructure, conflict. Part time Senior Research Fellow in Research & Evidence Directorate @FCDO. All views my own.
@politicsandspace.bsky.social
Critical, heterodox, interdisciplinary, international. A journal of research on the relations between the political and the spatial.
@raktimplan.bsky.social
Urbanist, Lecturer and Director of Education @UCL. Joint Programme Leader. Interests include Postcolonial Studies, Urban Theory, Radical Politics, Anarchist Geography
@annaminton.bsky.social
Writer, journalist, UEL academic and trying to have it all mum of two boys. Author of Ground Control and Big Capital. Working on a new book on the global housing crisis, which will be published by Penguin in 2026. Contributor to Guardian & FT
@casey-lynch.bsky.social
Geographer at the Universitat de Girona. Cities, labor, politics of AI/robots/automation. CAT/ENG/ESP 🏳️🌈
@samburgum.bsky.social
author of ‘Squatting London’ (Pluto Press 2024) | CITY editor | urban movements, squatting, homelessness, roadside travellers, property, trespass, archives, politics of aesthetics | samuelburgum.uk
@profgillian.bsky.social
digital things, visual culture, cities, visual research methods. And sometimes academic life. Prof of Human Geography at the University of Oxford. I still blog, occasionally, here: https://visualmethodculture.wordpress.com/
@samwetherell.bsky.social
Historian of Britain and the World at the University of York. Interested in cities, art-making and the future. Liverpool and the Un-Making of Britain out in 2025: https://www.waterstones.com/book/liverpool-and-the-unmaking-of-britain/sam-wetherell//9781801
@helgeschwiertz.bsky.social
Social and political theory, migration, racism, social movements, citizenship, solidarity and radical democracy / #sociology / Acting Professor, University of Hamburg: http://uhh.de/wiso-helge-schwiertz / ESCEuro research project https://europefrombelow.ne
@kirsteen-paton.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Class. Working on class, cities, evictions and gentrification. Trade unionist, Living Rent member, part of the Glasgow Housing Struggle Archive collective and editor at The Sociological Review
@drabioconnor.bsky.social
Urban Sociologist. Researcher @neweconomics.bsky.social Fellow @ Uni of Liverpool. PhD ✍️ political economy of housing/land, spatial inequality, local gov/politics & stigma. Fullback ⚽️ Union rep. ✊Organising w Liverpool Residents Action et al 📍UK
@michaellondonsf.bsky.social
semi-retired / activist on London housing and planning / UCL Bartlett / grandfather JustSpace.org.uk michaeledwards.org.uk I don't follow people with empty bios.
@professorsophie.bsky.social
urban studies prof at NYU. Currently studying migrant popular economies of housing and labor in NYC
@danimmergluck.bsky.social
Principal, Applied & Policy Research Advisement (APRA) Professor Emeritus, Public Policy & Urban Studies, Georgia State Affordable & Fair Housing, Cities, Community Development CHI-->ATL-->CHI Opinions my own More info at: https://tinyurl.com/3n9py4us
@oliviawilliams.bsky.social
Former Floridian in Madison (WI) using Geography PhD to tweet about housing, community land trusts (CLTs), transit, & bicycles. ED @ Madison Area CLT, they/she/Dr.
@luisasotomayor.bsky.social
Associate Prof. of Urban Planning. Director of the City Institute @ York University, Toronto.
@drjwharrison.bsky.social
Urban and Regional Geographer @ Geography & Environment, Loughborough University | Associate Director - Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) Research Network | Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Regional Studies | Regional Studies Association Board Member
@jamiedoucette.bsky.social
Reader in Human Geography @ University of Manchester. Author of The Postdevelopmental State: Dilemmas of Economic Democratization in Contemporary South Korea (Michigan: 2024, OA). Co-Editor: Developmentalist Cities? (Brill/Haymarket 2019). North sea surfer
@williamkutz.bsky.social
Geographer @ CORS Lund Research Group Coordinator @ CEMES Öresund Researches borders, territoriality, urban geopolitics, historical-geography of science, epistemologies of space 🔗 https://portal.research.lu.se/en/persons/william-kutz
@profjsdavies.bsky.social
University professor of urban studies and public policy. Hanging on by the skin of my teeth. Socialist. Twitter exile. Living with CLL thanks to NHS.
@labban.bsky.social
marxist, geographer, writer, editor. author: Space, Oil and Capital (Routledge 2008) and other things.
@skipfer.bsky.social
is into politics and urban questions. Professor, union member, inhabitant, author of Urban Revolutions https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2120-urban-revolutions
@stuartelden.bsky.social
Political theorist, political geographer, now mainly write on the history of ideas. Professor at University of Warwick, work on territory, Foucault, Lefebvre and new project on Indo-European thought in C20th France. https://progressivegeographies.com
@timweaver.bsky.social
Political economy, urban politics, APD, neoliberalism @ualbany. Editor @UrbanAffairsRev. Also, rugby, whiskey, whisky. Author of Blazing the Neoliberal Trail & Inequality, Crime, and Resistance in New York City tprweaver.com
@zacjtaylor.bsky.social
Climate adaptation, finance, and the built environment. Floridian in the Netherlands. Assistant Professor, TU Delft. Academic Lead, Resilient Delta. Co Lead, Red&Blue: Real Estate Development & Building in Low Urban Environments www.redblueclimate.nl
@kaiheron.bsky.social
Lecturer in Political Ecology at Lancaster University. Co-author of "Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green and Democratic Future" (2025)
@pbresnihan.bsky.social
Associate Prof Geography // climate, land + energy, political ecology, environmental justice // All We Want is the Earth. Land, Labour and Movements Beyond Environmentalism (BUP, 2023)
@jmigozzi.bsky.social
Economic-urban geographer. Visiting UC Berkeley Sociology. Research Fellow, Oxford University & Urban Studies Foundation. I study digital capitalism and socio-spatial inequalities. https://jmigozzi.github.io
@ejmccann.bsky.social
Geographer at Simon Fraser University. Policy mobilities; urban politics; harm reduction; social movements. Managing editor, EPC: Politics & Space (journals.sagepub.com/home/epc). Host, 'Minor Revisions' podcast (http://bit.ly/3suN9ur). Views my own.
@dancohen.bsky.social
Critical urban and economic geographer studying the marketization of education and other social institutions (he/him). https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=S265d9kAAAAJ&hl=en
@holgersen.bsky.social
Human geographer at Stockholm University. Crisis, capitalism, city, class and climate. 🍉 Latest book: Against the Crisis (Verso 2024) https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/3130-against-the-crisis
@smhall.bsky.social
Professor in Human Geography+UKRI FLF @austerityalters.bsky.social 🍞🌹 Into everyday feminist economic geography, pizza+tap dancing. Co-Ed @areajournal.bsky.social. My views. She/Her 🐕🍕📚🍓🌷
@desireefields.bsky.social
Digital experiments with property+place, platform financial subjectivity, critical economic geography Economic geographer, UC Berkeley. Trustee, Urban Studies Foundation. Editor, Environment and Planning A+Housing, Theory and Society
@williamwconroy.bsky.social
PhD candidate @ Harvard; interested in the production of space and the reproduction of capitalist society - http://harvard.academia.edu/WilliamConroy
@sethschindler.bsky.social
Geographer, co-founder of the Second Cold War Observatory, Senior Lecturer of Urban Development and Transformation at the Global Development Institute https://www.secondcoldwarobservatory.com/
@potentiaspace.bsky.social
Oxford prof, writer, experimental geographer. Exploring the radical possibilities of collective city life. Posting in a personal capacity. The Autonomous City (New ed. Verso, 2023; Alianza, 2023) Metropolitan Preoccupations (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015)
@willmonteith.bsky.social
Undisciplined geographer @qmulgeog. Researching work, energy and coloniality. Teaching urban African economies and global working lives
@brianrosa.bsky.social
Urban studies researcher at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Papá, geógrafo, fotógrafo, santsenc dels EUA. http://brianrosa.net
@sophiamaalsen.bsky.social
Urban and digital geographer interested in all things urbanism, digital, gender, housing and ‘smart’.
@olimould.bsky.social
Academic at large, but lectures in human geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. linktr.ee/olimould Researches anti-capitalism & cities. Christianarchist. Toffeeman. Interested in scifi, films, architecture, music and t-shirts.