Phil Hubbard
@gypjh2000.bsky.social
Professor of Urban Studies, King's College London; Editor Urban Studies. Part-time psychogeographer, landscape punk and walker.
Moving house soon so selling the last copies of this i have lying round house for £5. Royalty goes to Kent Refugee Action Network. Psychogeography, coastal perambulation and the end of Europe discussed, still sadly relevant 5 years after i wrote it www.ebay.co.uk/itm/19856609...
Lovely review of Listening to Landscape from Andrea Povoni here: antipodeonline.org/2026/04/28/l...
Listening to Landscape: Hauntology and the Echoes of Albion - Antipode Online
Andrea Pavoni (Instituto Universitário de Lisboa) on Phil Hubbard’s Listening to Landscape: Hauntology and the Echoes of Albion Read Review
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As I have predicted elsewhere, UK’s biggest student housing provider hit by fall in international enrolment | Students | The Guardian share.google/393azuGQN8rX...
UK’s biggest student housing provider hit by fall in international enrolment
Unite Group cuts rents at some universities and raises cash by selling London site to joint venture for £186m
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Housing sector leaders call for action to fill empty homes - BBC News share.google/ln63uCL3hliR...
Housing sector leaders call for action to fill empty homes
Estimates suggest more than a million homes in England are currently unoccupied.
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Next Urban Salon event, open to all, 6th March @ucl.ac.uk www.eventbrite.be/e/book-launc...
Book Launch: The Chaos Precinct: Johannesburg as a Port City (Tanya Zack)
Join us for Tanya Zack’s book launch, exploring the cross-continental trade flows that have shaped central Johannesburg’s Ethiopian Quarter.
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Coming in March as part of theurbansalon.com series, book discussion about Cinema and the City in an era of Planetary Urbanisation with Nitin Bathia and responses from @hyunshin.bsky.social Myra Geogiou and Monica Degan. 10 March @lselondon.bsky.social
New paper on student housing and governmentality: planning and licensing law treating students as a population apart!
Are we really surprised student accommodation is so ridiculously expensive given student debt de facto supports an asset class which reaps profit for investors? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'High accommodation costs pushing out York students'
Students' union claims rents have almost doubled in six years and student loans have not kept pace.
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The British honours system is corrupt and disgusting and any educated person who accepts one goes down in my estimation - especially if it's a VC who is closing a geography department, and who was born in a country subjugated by the British empire. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/new-yea...
New Year Honours 2026: knighthood for Leicester vice-chancellor
Professors from UCL and Plymouth Marjon University receive damehoods, while four vice-chancellors commended
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Our research on small homes looking at student housing too - especially as some Purpose Built Student Accommodation will end up being let to post-students! But is living in a small self-contained unit good for mental health? Are shared houses or HMO better? www.theguardian.com/education/20...
‘Lonely, terrifying and scary’: 70% of students in UK university halls feel isolated, poll shows
Students blame reliance on phones plus pressure of accommodation costs for lack of social life
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We are doing an online webinar on space standards and small homes in England for the Chartered Institute of Housing Jan 14th 1300. Register here >>> www.cih.org/events/small...
Small Homes in England: Panacea or Problem?
Urban densification is mooted as a solution to the housing crisis. But are smaller homes part of the problem?
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This highlights some of the obvious implications of densification and living small - no living room/lounge, no room for socialising, the end of the house party etc etc. @nospacelikehome.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
The death of the living room: ‘It’s hard to invite people over – not everyone wants to sit on a bed’
The number of rental properties without a lounge is surging, and people are having to eat and socialise in kitchens, bedrooms and stairwells. How can you relax and build community without a communal a...
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Today I am remembering my former colleague Jo Bullard who has died at just 56. A very supportive, encouraging, assiduous geographer, it is impossible to imagine @lborogeog.bsky.social without her. I know her passing has affected many very deeply, my thoughts with them on day of her funeral. RIP.
Am hearing terrible news about closure of Leics Human Geography degree @ucu.org.uk a proud dept with strong research tradition! www.leicester.news/university-o...
University of Leicester moves forward with plans to cut 150 jobs
A 'large number of staff' across several schools could be impacted
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Im speaking about our small homes research in an UGRG webinar about housing, gentrification and financialisation of property 31 October 1300-1400. cuhk.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #Housing #Inequality #Gentrification #planning @rgsibg.bsky.social
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It's now a real thing. Hardback and expensive but hopefully in time floppy and cheap. Join us at the launch on 21st Nov in London - see Eventbrite for free tickets www.eventbrite.com/e/listening-... @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social @claypipemusic.bsky.social @ghostboxrecords.bsky.social
New open access paper on housing densification and the regulation of the 'shrinking' home in an increasingly neoliberal regulatory environment @kbrickell.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @jreades.bsky.social
New piece here: Making Sense of Multispecies Cities journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... @dialogueshg.bsky.social
I'm cited in here about the role of upscale student accommodation in the crisis of housing affordability in our major cities www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ultra-v... #housing #gentrification www.nospacelikehome.study
‘Ultra-volatile’ enrolments cause ‘turbulence’ in student housing
Developers fear ‘glory days’ of non-stop building over as some areas face over-supply problems while city centre overcrowding intensifies
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Just realised 20 years since this was published: Hubbard, P. (2005). Accommodating otherness: anti‐asylum centre protest and the maintenance of white privilege. Transactions of the institute of British Geographers, 30(1), 52-65. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Geographers have recently progressed the debate on NIMBYism by demonstrating that opposition to new development is frequently motivated by white residents’ desire to exclude non-white groups. In this...
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In a nation full of bigotry, why should we engage with the work of musicians who are inspired by the English landscape? Is it possible to be critically nostalgic? kingsglobalaffairs.substack.com/p/listening-...
Listening to Landscape: Tuning-in to the Ghosts of England
Contemporary electronic and experimental musicians are using sound to summon landscapes, memories, and ghosts of a disappearing England.
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Book Launch for Listening to Landscape, King's College 21 Nov 1900. Hauntology/psychogeography/music: free event with music from The Hardy Tree @claypipemusic.bsky.social & Stonecirclesampler with @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social plus Jim Jupp & Oliver Cherer. Grab tickets from Eventbrite, going fast!
Nice piece from Tim White on the housing crisis. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Across Europe, the financial sector has pushed up house prices. It's a political timebomb | Tim White
We’ve been living in a great experiment: can finance provide basic human rights such as housing? The answer is increasingly no, says researcher and writer Tim White
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The border spectacle. For our education? Amusement? Outrage? Whatever, I'm depressed this is being played out for cameras. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
French police slash inflatable migrant boat heading to UK
Watch BBC footage of French police destroying a boat in the English Channel, a move the UK describes as
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Some more stuff on fishing, Englishness and identity at the Kent coast here: kingsglobalaffairs.substack.com/p/oysters-ow...
Oysters, Ownership, and Outrage: The Battle for Whitstable’s Shoreline
Once a symbol of Kentish pride and prosperity, oysters are now at the heart of a heated debate along the North Kent coast - igniting cultural, environmental and political tensions.
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The risk of unrepresentative REF returns hasn’t gone away wonkhe.com/blogs/the-ri...
The risk of unrepresentative REF returns hasn’t gone away
Anton Muscatelli, Maria Delgado and Miles Padgett consider the latest REF guidance, and warn of possible unintended consequences in how removing restrictions on output numbers will play out Anton Musc...
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New paper by Fraser Curry @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @urbanfutures.bsky.social from his masters' dissertation - amazing stuff on property guardianship in urban Senegal journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Thu: i'm speaking about hauntology, gentrification and Englishness at this lovely little thing in Plymouth. Previewing some of stuff in my new book on hauntronica and music for @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social "Listening to Landscape" (out Nov?) www.legalscholars.ac.uk/event/confer....
Annual University of Plymouth Criminology Conference
What's on at the University of Plymouth: Annual University of Plymouth Criminology Conference. Ghosts of futures, pasts and presents: The hauntology of...
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Great to be part of a @legalgeolsa.bsky.social meet up yesterday where we organised, discussed and debated. Lots of great future plans for conferences, workshops and perhaps even a journal for Legal Geography. Watch this space! www.clg.place
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