Out now: GlobalCORRIDOR #14 'Mapping the Corridor Geographies of the Belt and Road Initiative' The BRI is a world transforming vision but info on its six corridors remains unclear so we've assembled routes + $551.7 billion of infra projects See here: globalcorridor.substack.com/p/globalcorr...
GlobalCORRIDOR #14
Mapping the Corridor Geographies of the Belt and Road Initiative
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We are launching our GlobalCORRIDOR Atlas today, alongside our project website....as part of our ERC funded project This beta version features dozens of corridors, hundreds of infrastructure projects, nearly a trillion dollars of investment. globalcorridor.eu/atlas
We are launching our GlobalCORRIDOR Atlas today, alongside our project website....as part of our ERC funded project This beta version features dozens of corridors, hundreds of infrastructure projects, nearly a trillion dollars of investment. globalcorridor.eu/atlas
Excited to participate in this GlobalCORRIDOR event organised by Catherine Ngahu in Nairobi. Join us in person/online for some great talks on global infrastructure projects in East Africa on Tues 26th May biea.ac.uk/events/globa...
Today, online lecture. Open to all "Reapproaching extended urbanization in the Brazilian Amazonia" by Roberto Monte-Mor sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...
Reapproaching extended urbanization in the Brazilian Amazonia
This online keynote is the opening keynote lecture in the Sheffield Urbanism programme. It is supported by Urban Institute in partnership with the University of Manchester (Global Development Institut...
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Global Corridor newsletter #12 "Bomb/Blockade/Bypass" is focused on the emerging geographies of the infrastructural blockade and attempts at establishing bypass infrastructures. globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...
Global Corridor #12
Bomb/Blockade/Bypass: How the War on Iran turned into an Infrastructure War
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We've worked with the Geographical Association to develop some school learning materials for A-Level students to think through financialisation, displacement, gentrification etc 'Post-industrial urban change in the UK: A Manchester case study' geography.org.uk/resources/po...
Post-industrial urban change in the UK: A Manchester case study - Geographical Association
These resources for A level students and teachers consider urban change in Manchester, UK, and include a guided urban walk around the city centre to explore the nature of this regeneration.
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I have a new short piece out in Environment and Planning A journal 'The multipolarity and geo-politics of climate finance' A response to Bryant and Webber's (amazing) book: Climate Finance: Taking a Position on Climate Futures journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Continuing focus on the global infrastructural geographies of the illegal US/Israeli attack on Iran. globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...
Global Corridor #11
A war on water is a war on life, damaged oil and gas infrastructures, the 'blockade', UAE air hub's uncertain future, more reading
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Global Corridor Newsletter #11 is out Continuing analysis of the infrastructural geographies of the US/Israeli war on Iran... 'A war on water is a war on life, damaged oil and gas infrastructures, the 'blockade', UAE air hub's uncertain future' globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...
Global Corridor #11
A war on water is a war on life, damaged oil and gas infrastructures, the 'blockade', UAE air hub's uncertain future, more reading
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Last shout out to join us for tomorrow's workshop, from 2pm at Site Gallery, Sheffield 'Sensorial Methodologies, Extended Urbanization; sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...
Sensorial Methodologies, Extended Urbanization
This workshop, incorporating film screening, book launch and panel discussion, brings together urban researchers exploring the geographies of extended and planetary urbanization through visual based m...
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Excited to be hosting a book talk by Austin Zeiderman in Sheffield on his book 'Artery: Racial Ecologies on Colombia’s Magdalena River' - 23rd March More details inc link to Open Access copy of his book here 👇 sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...
The Infrastructural Geography of the US/Israel War on Iran… …From data centres to logistical bottlenecks, supply chains to real estate markets, shipping to petroleum networks globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...
Excellent data interface showing collapsing real estate prices in Dubai (5-15%) and Abu Dhabi (3-10%) in real time 👀 www.luxurypricedrops.com
A new phase of warfare / destroy the data centre, destroy the cloud, destroy the capacity of the enemy to operate More on the infrastructural geographies of the Israel/US attack on Iran here: globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...
My Global Corridor Newsletter 10 is out now The Infrastructural Geography of the US/Israel War of Iran Blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, the Gulf real estate economy shattered?, Oil and gas crisis, data centre wars, Indian port investors + more globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...
My Global Corridor Newsletter 10 is out now The Infrastructural Geography of the US/Israel War of Iran Blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, the Gulf real estate economy shattered?, Oil and gas crisis, data centre wars, Indian port investors + more globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...
✒️How do financing models reshape politics and spatial effects of infrastructure? Comparing two projects in Kenya, I show how G2G-PPP redistributes risk and control and essentially, who benefits. Please check out my new article in @urbanstudiesjournal.com: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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The Israeli and US attack on Iran is morally repugnant. It is calculated only to benefit an elite of racist, Islamophobic warmongers. It will not benefit Iranians or ordinary people anywhere on earth. We must build the grassroots capacity to interrupt the war machine or things will only get darker.
A big wk in beating back the Far Right in Manchester with massive antifascist mobilisation taking on Britain First while a broad left electoral front working with/in Green Party dominate Reform A clear roadmap on the streets + in the polls against the Fascist future in the UK
'Sensorial Methodologies, Extended Urbanization' Excited to be involved in this event in Sheffield (12 March) at the Site Gallery inc film screening, book launch + panel discussion w/ @nitin-bathla.bsky.social, Junia Mortimer and more More info here: sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...
My GlobalCORRIDOR newsletter 9 is out now Featuring.... New Horn of Africa corridor, the 'Lobito model', Alphabet's digital $15 billion investment in India, EXIM Bank's outstanding $289bn loans, new maritime based readings, data centre film globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...
Our new piece out today in Times Higher Education about the threats to Geography in the UK - particularly fieldwork - please do share. It links to a recent snapshot survey on the challenges being faced in UK HE, which highlights the inequities of the challenges, but also fears of what is yet to come
The UK universities cutting geography have lost their bearings
From climate change to geopolitics, the knowledge, skills and insights of geographers have never been more relevant, say five professors
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We have a new paper in @ijurresearch.bsky.social ‘ 'EVERYTHING IS BEING DISTURBED’: Unsettling the Spaces of Global Infrastructure along the Northern Corridor Special economic zones, railway projects + more with Sydney Nsubuga onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...
Lots of new excitement about the 'Manchester model' but it's built an extractive economy that benefits capital, not labour. Read our data-led report "Centripetal Cities A critique of supply-side urban development" - t.co/Dec4wIkGGe
Catch up on my Global Corridor newsletter #8 featuring... US races for DRC minerals, return of the Trans-Saharan pipeline? JD Vance’s TRIPP, tensions on the Panama canal, Italian tunnels, riding the Mauritania Railway, Silicon Elsewhere + Lunar roads 👉 tinyurl.com/5x64u25w
Global Corridor #8
US races for DRC minerals, the return of the Trans-Saharan pipeline? JD Vance’s TRIPP, more tensions on the Panama canal, Italian train tunnels, Mauritania Railway, Silicon Elsewhere and Lunar roads
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Global Corridor newsletter #8 is out now featuring... US races for DRC minerals, the return of the Trans-Saharan pipeline? JD Vance’s TRIPP, more tensions on the Panama canal, Italian train tunnels, Mauritania Railway, Silicon Elsewhere and Lunar roads lnkd.in/duf4gE4K
Global Corridor newsletter 7 is out now featuring... New book on the Belt and Road Initiative, Burkina's revolutionary road, Destiny, a new special economic zone in the Caribbean, Foster design transport hub in Poland, Venezuelan oil, Pakistani railways globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...
I've joined Caitlin Morrissey and Michele Acuto to record an episode for season 2 of the Urban Studies Journal podcast Walking the City With... You can listen here www.urbanstudiesjournal.com/podcast/8-wa...
8. Walking the city with… Jon Silver and urban corridors - Urban Studies
Corridors, inscriptions, and urban studies careers. Caitlin takes to the streets of Manchester with local Jon Silver, discussing the trajectory of urban theorising between Norths and Souths. Jon exper...
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New Film/Report on Pakistani Railway Infrastructure/CPEC FILM: "Tarakiyati Kaam Jari Hai/Developmental Work in Progress" by Zainab Farid REPORT: "Navigating Displacement + Inequality along the ML-1 Railway Corridor" by Toheed Mohammed 👉 karachiurbanlab.com/assets/downl... youtu.be/njSGg_OqY5s?...
Tarakiyati Kaam Jari Hai - Developmental Work in Progress (Full film)
YouTube video by Urban Institute
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