this is your reminder that people from other states and even other countries have traveled to Cleveland for our sewer and stormwater festival. so your excuse for not attending may be invalid. Clean Water Fest returns 9/19. cleanwaterfest.com
Jennifer Clark
@jclarkcrp.bsky.social
Professor. Regional economic development; industrial restructuring; cities + tech; economic geography. Editor-in-Chief @regionalstudies.bsky.social. Also, dogs, birds, community. 🏙️
Recently published in @regionalstudies.bsky.social Community-based social capital, neighbourhood characteristics and SME resilience: a configurational analysis by Arash Sadeghi, Taimaz Larimian and John Harrison doi.org/10.1080/0034...
New in @regionalstudies.bsky.social Towards an evolutionary perspective on institutions in economic geography Ron Boschma doi.org/10.1080/0034...
And here I was thinking I was the only person in North America who couldn’t grow a zucchini in August…
Neighbors supporting neighbors at the Cincinnati ICE field office in Blue Ash, Ohio ➡️ “Another vigil is planned for next Sunday morning.”
Jenn@jennburrill.bsky.social · 3d agoBlue Ash, Ohio 8/2 “I came to bear witness to the great wrong that's being done to people who came here for a better life and had the rug pulled out from under them... It doesn't make humanitarian sense. It doesn't make economic sense. It's purely for ideology.” www.wvxu.org/local-news/2...
My thoughts are with family in Spokane tonight. A city with lovely people and a beautiful part of the country. This is tragic. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/u...
More Than a Dozen Wildfires Burn in Washington State, Forcing Evacuations
The Old Trails fire near Spokane had grown to about 2,500 acres by Saturday evening, propelled by strong wind gusts and high temperatures.
nytimes.com
RSA grant: the Knowledge & Policy Exchange Grant (KPEG) funds collaboration between RSA members & non-academic organisations. Up to £2,500 | 3–12 months | Global | Applications open October 2026. regionalstudies.org/funding/kpeg #KPEG
I’m just not sure they appreciate what I picked up for them in Myeongdong.
Agreed! But it is not just US higher ed that excels because of the intricate and interconnected national innovation system built over the last century, it is the US economy as a whole that excels. Dismantling the US national innovation system is an epic own goal. Colossally stupid.
AAUP@aaup.org · 2w agoUS research excels because generations of scientists have been free to pursue difficult questions, challenge conventional wisdom, and publish findings without political interference. The Trump admin wants to change that. @afthighered.bsky.social Full statement: www.aaup.org/news/aaup-af...
Government shouldn't be trying to make it harder for eligible voters to participate in elections, but that's just what would happen in the SAVE America Act were allowed to pass. Enough. Call the Capital Switchboard today at 202-224-3121 to tell Senators Husted and Moreno to vote NO on Act.
Noting @justsecurity.org's “Zero Evidence”: How Judges and Grand Juries Have Rejected the Trump Administration Efforts to Investigate and Prosecute” a running list of the gap bet. what they say & what they can do as DOJ withdraws subpoenas aimed at NYT reporters today. Don’t obey in advance.
Ryan Goodman@rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 2w ago3/ Adds to an accumulation of subpoenas withdrawn, rejected by judges and more. We've kept count of them all here: www.justsecurity.org/146665/court...
OUT TODAY, the AAUP just released the first comprehensive account of how the Trump administration has taken the same playbook it's used on law firms & foreign governments & turned it on American universities. US higher ed has, in effect, become a target of a massive extortion racket. 🧵
New Report on Extorted Compliance Charges “Massive Extortion Racket” Against Higher Ed
A new AAUP report, "Extorted Compliance: A Threat to Institutional Autonomy, Academic Freedom, and Shared Governance," exposes how the Trump administration has extended its pay-to-play approach to gov...
aaup.org
Incompetence is so exhausting. 😣 We don’t have to keep doing this to ourselves. There really are people who know how to run a functional national industrial policy out here.
Jonas Nahm@jonasnahm.com · 2w ago9/ Manufacturers surveyed through 2025 cite trade policy uncertainty as their top concern, above cost or demand. Unpredictable terms discourage the long-cycle investment reshoring requires. The volatility built to generate leverage has instead discouraged it.
Post World Cup analysis on 🏟️#stadiums (stadia 😉), urban architecture, and what these buildings mean for cities from architecture Professor @benjy-flowers.bsky.social www.dezeen.com/2026/07/16/b...
"Stadiums are the most significant expression of monumentality in our time"
Benjamin Flowers considers the role of stadiums as one of the last monumental architectural forms that demands affection from the public.
dezeen.com
Dezeen@dezeen.com · 3w agoWith stadium construction intensifying and the World Cup drawing to a close, our Future Stadium series looks at the future of one of the world's most impactful buildings. https://www.dezeen.com/2026/07/13/future-stadium-series-introduction/
This one still stings. “Where do you want Penn Station?” Alan Dunn 1963 #urbanplanning #historicpreservation
Delighted to find this gem in a mid century Alan Dunn collection during old home week at the beach. Wondering if I saw this as a kid? Possibly inspired my decision to go to #Wesleyan 😉
What a great article not only on faculty workloads, but how little our salaries actually factor in to most university budgets. A few highlights. First, our salaries are falling:
Maxims from architectural history that are spot on comments about right wing classicism, ca. 2026: Eugène Viollet-le-Duc: In architecture, there are two necessary ways of being true. It must be true according to the program and true according to the methods of construction.
Governor DeWine has vetoed HB 472, the very bad bill that would have made it much harder to vote by mail for many Ohioans and would have introduced new identity fraud and privacy concerns for voters. Thank you for listening to election officials and everyday Ohioans, Governor DeWine!
A very nice write-up on why data users should be concerned about the new Commerce Dept. policy, which likely means a lot of granular, local-level data used for economic development is about to disappear. agglomerations.eig.org/p/a-new-thre...
A New Threat to Economic Data
A Commerce Department policy risks damaging the public’s understanding of the economy.
agglomerations.eig.org
When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.
Launching Regions in Evolution: A History of Regional Planning by Daniel Galland @marktewdwr-jones.bsky.social & @drjwharrison.bsky.social at @regstud.bsky.social Conference in Gothenburg 17 June 2pm w/ Jennifer Clark, Andy Pike, @mrglassphd.bsky.social & Simin Yan www.routledge.com/Regions-in-E...
Regions in Evolution: A History of Regional Planning
Throughout the twentieth century, planning and planners were central to our understanding of cities and regions. Today, however, planning is facing powerful challenges – professionally, intellectually...
routledge.com
The RSA has launched its strategy for 2026–2030, setting out how we will support regional researchers, champion evidence-based policy, and promote sustainable and equitable regional development over the coming years. Find out more at www.regionalstudies.org/news/rsa-202...
New paper published today! It considers the opportunities and potential for **healthy industrial strategy** @jacknewman.bsky.social, Sarah Ayres & Geoff Bates 📕 Published in @regionalstudies.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Prioritising public health in mission-oriented industrial strategy
The aim of this article is to identify the opportunities to prioritise public health in industrial strategy. The resurgence of industrial policy has prompted calls for a sector-specific, people-foc...
tandfonline.com
Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 Regional Studies Best Paper Award! Flavio Pinheiro, Pierre-Alexandre Balland, Dominik Hartmann & Ron Boschma for their paper: "The dark side of the geography of innovation: relatedness, complexity and regional inequality in Europe" doi.org/10.1080/0034...
The 2026 Policy Debates Best Paper goes to Rama Krishna Reddy Kummitha for 'Smart city governance: assessing modes of active citizen engagement.' Read it at doi.org/10.1080/0034... Watch @prt1969.bsky.social present the award at www.regionalstudies.org/news/2026-policy-debates-best-paper/
New Article 🚨 @regionalstudies.bsky.social!!
Sarah Ayres@sarahayres.bsky.social · 2mo agoNew paper published today! It considers the opportunities and potential for **healthy industrial strategy** @jacknewman.bsky.social, Sarah Ayres & Geoff Bates 📕 Published in @regionalstudies.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 Regional Studies Best Paper Award! Flavio Pinheiro, Pierre-Alexandre Balland, Dominik Hartmann & @ronboschma.bsky.social! @regionalstudies.bsky.social
Regional Studies Association@regstud.bsky.social · 2mo agoCongratulations to the winners of the 2026 Regional Studies Best Paper Award! Flavio Pinheiro, Pierre-Alexandre Balland, Dominik Hartmann & Ron Boschma for their paper: "The dark side of the geography of innovation: relatedness, complexity and regional inequality in Europe" doi.org/10.1080/0034...