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Ben Rogers

@ben-rog.bsky.social

Urbanist & writer; Professor @UoL University of London; Distinguished Fellow @LSECities; Founding Director @CentreforLondon; Chair @DesignSouthEast. Interests include Citizenship, public realm, urban government and democracy, sustainable urbanism, London

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Ben Rogers@ben-rog.bsky.social · 2w ago

Feel there is a really strong narrative that Burnham gov isn’t constructing abt rebalancing our lives away from screen to real social networks. We all know we spend too much time on phones. And we want stonger local communities. Would help frame support for high streets & measures against big tech.

Ben Rogers@ben-rog.bsky.social · 3mo ago

100th anniversary of General Strike tomorrow and thinking of my grandmother. She came from comfortable South London family but told me that seeing the anger of strikers on a picket line she passed on a bus made her think ‘there must be some justice to their cause’ and became a Labour supporter

Ben Rogers@ben-rog.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Pleased to have reviewed @brunoleipold.com and @stuartgwhite.bsky.social contributionsto the burgeoning field of civic republican political thought. Two very different books but both illustrate the importance of this tradition to our increasingly unequal times.

The radical republican tradition

What does it mean to be a republican? In the US, it is to support the party of Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump. In the UK, it is to favour the abolition of

the-tls.com

Ben Rogers@ben-rog.bsky.social · 5mo ago

With a radical new Mayor in NYC, join us @LSE to discuss how to create fairer transport systems in large global cities. The Inclusive City: Transport Equity in New York and Londonhttps://www.lse.ac.uk/school-of-public-policy/events/2025-26/the-inclusive-city-transport-equity-in-new-york-and-london

Ben Rogers@ben-rog.bsky.social · last yr.

Deadline approaching: Call for papers: The City as a Normative Political Space: Institutions, Relations, and Republicanism MANCEPT Workshop philevents.org/event/show/1...

MANCEPT Workshop: The City as a Normative Political Space: Institutions, Relations, and Republicanism

While mainstream political theory has long focused predominantly on the nation state, it has largely been silent about the city. Slowly, however, the city is gaining prominence in political theory, pa...

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Richard Brown@richardbrown.bsky.social · last yr.

This is very good by @jburnmurdoch.ft.com. Also, the tasks that AI is taking over fastest (defined, complicated, programmable) are often those most easily performed from home, while the tasks that are more messy, complex, interactive may still be better in person/office. www.ft.com/content/471b...

Why hasn’t AI taken your job yet?

New research shows ChatGPT’s inability to cope with ‘messy’ multitasking is still protecting some human workers

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Dr Balki Begum Bayhan@bbbayh.bsky.social · last yr.

Update from today’s #Turkey protests. Hundreds continue to protest across the country. Protests spreading fast & getting stronger despite harsh police response, including tear/pepper gas in Ankara & Istanbul. Protests not just in large cities but also conservative places like Konya & Trabzon.

Anne Hidalgo@annehidalgo.bsky.social · last yr.

Ce soir plus que jamais aux côtés des ukrainiens et de Volodymyr Zelensky. Dans ces tempêtes où les vents mauvais soufflent forts, rassemblons nous derrière le président ukrainien. Il s’agit de nos valeurs, il s’agit de notre démocratie, il s’agit de notre liberté. Nous vaincrons. Slava ukraini !